Participants will receive a certificate of completion upon completing and passing the module assessments. Participants will receive a certificate of participation upon completing the course evaluation survey.

Cell Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases: MSCs for Clinical Application Course

• Introduction – MSC for Treating Patients with Autoimmune Diseases: Dream or Reality?
  • Speaker: Dominique Farge, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, AP-HP St-Louis, Paris University, France
  • Co-Moderators: Damian Garcia-Olmo, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain and Mark Lowdell, PhD, Professor, Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, Royal Free Hospital, United Kingdom

• Mesenchymal Stem Cell (MSC) Biology 
  • Speaker: Karin Tarte, Pharm D, PhD, Director UMR U1236-MOBIDIC, Head of Honeycomb Research Team, Head of the Immunology Lab at Rennes University Hospital, Head of Rennes Immunomonitoring Platform (SITI), Medical School of Rennes, France
  • Co-Moderators: Damian Garcia-Olmo, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain and Mark Lowdell, PhD, Professor, Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, Royal Free Hospital, United Kingdom

• Umbilical Cord Blood Biology 
  • Speaker: Gesine Kogler, PhD, Professor, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Co-Moderators: Damian Garcia-Olmo, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain and Mark Lowdell, PhD, Professor, Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, Royal Free Hospital, United Kingdom

• Paracrine Mechanisms of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Tissue Repair
  • Speaker: Massimiliano Gnecchi, MD, PhD, FESC, Associate Professor of Cardiology, University of Pavia, Italy
  • Co-Moderators: Damian Garcia-Olmo, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain and Mark Lowdell, PhD, Professor, Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, Royal Free Hospital, United Kingdom

• Production, Regulation and Quality of MSC Cell Products
  • Speaker: Fermin Sanchez-Guijo, MD, PhD, Head, Hematology Department, University Hospital of Salamanca, Spain
  • Co-Moderators: Karin Tarte, Pharm D, PhD, Director UMR U1236-MOBIDIC, Head of Honeycomb Research Team, Head of the Immunology Lab at Rennes University Hospital, Head of Rennes Immunomonitoring Platform (SITI), Medical School of Rennes, France and Dominique Farge, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, AP-HP St-Louis, Paris University, France

• MSC - The First Success to Ongoing Developments (GVHD)
  • Speaker: Katarina Le Blanc, MD, PhD, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  • Co-Moderators: Karin Tarte, Pharm D, PhD, Director UMR U1236-MOBIDIC, Head of Honeycomb Research Team, Head of the Immunology Lab at Rennes University Hospital, Head of Rennes Immunomonitoring Platform (SITI), Medical School of Rennes, France and Dominique Farge, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, AP-HP St-Louis, Paris University, France

• MSC for Crohn's Disease
  • Speaker: Damian Garcia-Olmo, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
  • Co-Moderators: Karin Tarte, Pharm D, PhD, Director UMR U1236-MOBIDIC, Head of Honeycomb Research Team, Head of the Immunology Lab at Rennes University Hospital, Head of Rennes Immunomonitoring Platform (SITI), Medical School of Rennes, France and Dominique Farge, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, AP-HP St-Louis, Paris University, France

• MSC for GI Diseases in Europe
  • Speaker: Rachele Ciccocioppo, MD, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, University of Verona, Italy
  • Co-Moderators: Karin Tarte, Pharm D, PhD, Director UMR U1236-MOBIDIC, Head of Honeycomb Research Team, Head of the Immunology Lab at Rennes University Hospital, Head of Rennes Immunomonitoring Platform (SITI), Medical School of Rennes, France and Dominique Farge, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, AP-HP St-Louis, Paris University, France

• Regulatory Framework For MSC Application in EMA 
  • Speaker: Lindsay Davies, BSc (Hons), PhD, FHEA, CEO and Founder CelLTherEx Consulting AB and CSO NextCell Pharma AB, Sweden
  • Co-Moderators: Fermin Sanchez-Guijo, MD, PhD, Head, Hematology Department, University Hospital of Salamanca, Spain and Katarina Le Blanc, MD, PhD, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

• MSC Umbilical Cord Blood Production For Clinical Trial? 
  • Speaker: Mark Lowdell, PhD, Professor, Cancer Institute, University College London, United Kingdom
  • Co-Moderators: Fermin Sanchez-Guijo, MD, PhD, Head, Hematology Department, University Hospital of Salamanca, Spain and Katarina Le Blanc, MD, PhD, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

• Statistical Considerations For Clinical Trial Design When Using MSC To Treat AD: How To Face With Heterogeneity 
  • Speaker: Lucie Biard, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Biostatistics, University of Paris, France
  • Co-Moderators: Fermin Sanchez-Guijo, MD, PhD, Head, Hematology Department, University Hospital of Salamanca, Spain and Katarina Le Blanc, MD, PhD, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

• MSC For RA Joints 
• Speaker: Yves-Marie Pers, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Biostatistics, University of Paris, France
• Co-Moderators: Lindsay Davies, BSc (Hons), PhD, FHEA,  CEO and Founder CellTherEx Consulting AB and CSO NextCell Pharma AB, Sweden, Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha, MD, PhD, Hematologist, Blood and Marrow, Lille University, France and Raffaella Greco, MD, PhD, Senior Haematologist, Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Hospital (IRCCS), Italy

• MSC For Systemic Sclerosis 
• Speaker: Dominique Farge, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, AP-HP St-Louis, Paris University, France
• Co-Moderators: Lindsay Davies, BSc (Hons), PhD, FHEA,  CEO and Founder CellTherEx Consulting AB and CSO NextCell Pharma AB, Sweden, Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha, MD, PhD, Hematologist, Blood and Marrow, Lille University, France and Raffaella Greco, MD, PhD, Senior Haematologist, Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Hospital (IRCCS), Italy

• MSC For SLE
• Speaker: Lingyun Sun, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing University Medical School, China
  Gary Gilkeson, MD, Associate Dean and Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
• Co-Moderators: Lindsay Davies, BSc (Hons), PhD, FHEA,  CEO and Founder CellTherEx Consulting AB and CSO NextCell Pharma AB, Sweden, Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha, MD, PhD, Hematologist, Blood and Marrow, Lille University, France and Raffaella Greco, MD, PhD, Senior Haematologist, Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Hospital (IRCCS), Italy

• MSC For Neurological Diseases
• Speaker: Antonio Uccelli, MD, Professor of Neurology, University of Genoa, Italy
• Co-Moderators: Laure Michel, MD, PhD, Clinical Neurologist, Rennes University, France and Eliane Gluckman, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Hematology, Paris University, France

• MSC For Autism
  • Speaker: Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Director, Marcus Center for Cellular Cures, Director, Carolinas Cord Blood Bank, Co-Director, Stem Cell Transplant Laboratory, Jerome Harris Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pathology, Duke University, USA
  • Co-Moderators: Laure Michel, MD, PhD, Clinical Neurologist, Rennes University, France and Eliane Gluckman, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Hematology, Paris University, France