CELL THERAPY: THE STATE OF THE ART AND NEW PERSPECTIVES
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PAVIA, May 8-10, 2003 - Aula Magna Collegio Ghisleri

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May, 8, 2003
14:30 Welcome to the participants
(G. Azzaretti, E. Solcia, L. Zambianchi, G. Rondini)
Modulation of Immune System
by Extracorporeal Photochemotherapy
CHAIRPERSONS:
L. Salvaneschi (Pavia), P. Rebulla (Milano)
15:00-15:30 ECP as effective adjunct therapy for adult patients with acute and chronic GVHD
H. Greinix (Wien)
15:30-16:00 ECP for treatment of acute and chronic GVHD in children
C. Perotti (Pavia)
16:00-16:30 ECP for prevention and treatment of rejection in solid organ transplant recipients
R. Dall’Amico (Padova)
16:30-17:00 Biological predictors of response to ECP
M.C. Cuccia, M. Martinetti (Pavia)
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-18:00 Transimmunization: correcting the flaws of ECP
R.L. Edelson (New York)
18:00-18:30 Simultaneous clinical scale isolation and expansion of CD4+ and CD8+ virus-specific T cells using Interferon-gamma secretion
J. Campbell (Berdisch, Gladbach)
18:30-19:30
Invited lecture introduced by E. Solcia
BIOETHICAL ASPECTS OF INNOVATIVE APPROACHES
OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL THERAPY

G.R. Burgio (Pavia)

May, 9, 2003

Adoptive Immunotherapy for Prevention or Treatment of Leukemia Relapse
after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
CHAIRPERSONS:
F. Locatelli (Pavia), M. Martelli (Perugia)
8:30-9:00 Ex vivo generation and expansion of human antileukemia CTL lines.
D. Montagna (Pavia)
9:00-9:30 Minor histocompatibility antigens as targets for immunotherapy after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
F. Falkenburg (Leiden)
9:30-10:00 Specific immunotherapy against CML
A. Madrigal (London)
10:00-10:30 Anti-idiotype vaccination of multiple myeloma and lymphoma patients using ex-vivo generated dendritic cells
R. Lemoli (Bologna)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Impact of donor NK cell alloreactivity on allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
A. Velardi (Perugia)
11:30-12:00 Effects of granulocyte colony stimulating factor after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation on engraftment, graft-versus-host disease and survival
O. Ringden (Huddinge)
12:00-13:00 Invited lecture introduced by F. Locatelli
STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION ACROSS MAJOR GENETIC BARRIERS:
THE IMMUNO-REGULATORY ROLE OF EARLY HEMATOPOIETIC CELLS

Y. Reisner (Rehovot)
13.00
Lunch

Adoptive immunotherapy for prevention or treatment of infectious complications after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell or solid organ transplantation
CHAIRPERSONS:
A. Pession (Bologna), G. Gerna (Pavia)
14:30-15:00 Monitoring of herpesvirus infections in transplanted patients
F. Baldanti (Pavia)
15:00-15:30 Immunotherapy of EBV malignancies after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
H. Heslop (Houston)
15:30-16:00 Immunotherapy of EBV malignancies after solid organ transplantation
P. Comoli (Pavia)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 New strategies to treat CMV infection after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
H. Einsele (Tubingen)
17:00-17:30 Safe and effective transfer of donor immunity to pathogens across the HLA barrier
K. Perruccio (Perugia)
18:00-19:00 Invited lecture introduced by P. Rebulla
REGULATORY ISSUES OF CELL THERAPY
G. Migliaccio (Rome)

May, 10, 2003

Adoptive immunotherapy for induction of tolerance
after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
CHAIRPERSONS:
A.P. Bacigalupo (Genova), G. Basso (Padova)
8:30-9:00 Depletion of MLC-activated cells combined with CTLA4-Ig treatment as a strategy to control T-cell mediated alloreactivity
R. Maccario (Pavia)
9:00-9:30 The infusion of in vitro expanded mesenchimal stem cells reduce the incidence/severity of GVHD in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
F. Frassoni (Genova)
9:30-10:00 Immunomodulatory effects of human fetal and adult mesenchymal stem cells
K. Le Blanc (Huddinge)
10:00-10:30 Allodepletion for haploidentical transplantation: current state for inborn errors
M. Cavazzana-Calvo (Paris)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Use of IL-10 anergyzed T cells in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
M.G. Roncarolo (Milano)
11:30-12:00 Costimulatory blockade as a means of decreasing donor anti-host alloreactivity: practice and theory
E. Guinan (Boston)
12:00-12:30 Human CD34+ cells induce T cell specific unresponsiveness only under costimulatory blockade
D. Rondelli (Chicago)
12:30- 13:30 Invited lecture introduced by G.P. Merlini
ON CELLULAR BASIS OF IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY
A. Lanzavecchia (Bellinzona)

13:30 Closing remarks