Registration Remains Open for ‘Cord Blood Connect’
Sessions, e-posters and exhibits will be live streamed on Sept. 30 Splitting the congress into two days held a week apart proved to be popular last year. Participants did not have to be tied to screens for consecutive days. The agenda for the congress includes these major sessions: Science Advances in cord blood transplantation for leukemia Beyond ex-vivo expansion for malignant and non-malignant diseases Cord blood transplant outcomes: Clinical and economic perspectives Critical aspects of MSC manufacturing for clinical use Emerging therapies and regenerative medicine: Development of safe and effective products Directed donor cord blood banking for transplantation and gene therapy Immune-modulating cell therapies Technology Cord blood banking 2.0 Innovations in cord blood banking to democratize HSCT Cord blood banking sustainability: Strategies for the future Improved time and access to cord blood transplantation: What transplant centers want Perinatal tissue as source material for novel cell therapies What doctors and donors should know about cord blood banking Regulation, Ethics and Policy Elements of consenting donors for novel uses of birthing tissues Continuing medical education (CME), continuing medical laboratory education (CMLE), and certificates of attendance will be provided. Thursday's webcast will be 9 am-5 pm in the Eastern time zone of the United States, and 3-11 pm CEST in Central Europe. The entire day will be re-broadcast for Asia, Australia and the Pacific Rim on Sept. 24 and Oct. 1 at 7 am-3 pm CST in Beijing, 8 am-4 pm JST in Tokyo, and 9 am-5 pm AEST in Australia. All session will be archived for on-demand viewing by congress registrants in the weeks and months after the live webcasts.
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