Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Registration Fee: 560 euros (The registration fee includes the teaching material and lunch)
Your seat in the conference will be definitively reserved upon receipt of your fee.

Chairs: J. Apperley, E. Gluckman, E. Carreras, A. Gratwohl, T. Masszi
Local Organizer: B. Labar

Preliminary Programme
* speakers in pending confirmation

Wednesday, April 30
14.00 Welcome and introduction B. Labar

Session I
14.00-14.30 EBMT organization and activities A. Gratwohl
14.30-15.00 Novel insights into bone marrow biology A. Wodnar-Filipowicz
15.00-15.30 The stem cell product A. Urbano-Ispizua
15.30-16.00 HLA J.-M. Tiercy
16.00-16.30 Non HLA E. Holler
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-17.30 Key note lecture * J. Barrett
20.00 Cocktail reception

Thursday, May 1
07.15-08.15 Meet with students to rehearse selected case reports presentation T. Masszi, A. Gratwohl

Session II Transplant management and complications / Chair: TBA
08.30-09.00 Conditioning MAC versus RIC A. Gratwohl
09.00-09.45 Early complications E. Carreras
09.45-10.15 Late complications T. Masszi
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.30 Acute GVH * A. Devergie
11.30-12.00 Chronic GVH TBA
12.00-13.00 Case presentation
13.00-14.00 Lunch

Session III HSCT in Leukaemia /Chair: E. Carreras
14.00-14.30 AML: prognostic markers and current treatment indications J. Esteve
14.30-15.00 ALL * R. Willemze
15.00-15.30 GVH/GVL E. Holler
15.30-16.00 Treatment of relapse * R. Willemze
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.00 Case discussion and short communications

Friday, May 2
08.00-09.00 Breakfast Meet the Expert sessions
Session IV Infection / Chair: TBA
09.15-09.45 Infection E. Carreras
09.45-10.15 Infection TBA
10.15-11.00 Case discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee break

Session V Choice of the donor / Chair: TBA
11.30-13.00
Panel discussion on case presentation
- Cord blood E. Gluckman
- Haplo A. Gratwohl
- MUD J. Apperley

- Auto * R. Willemze
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Session VI Indications and results in paediatrics / Chair: TBA
14.00-14.45 Specific differences in paediatric transplant G. Dini
14.45-15.30 Non malignant disease in children hemoglobinopathies aplastic anaemia E. Gluckman
15.30-16.30 Case discussion
20.00 Dinner Meet the Expert sessions
Dinner tables:
1 - Complications of BMT
2 - Statistical analysis
3 - Infection
4 - Paediatric diseases
5 - Lymphoma, myeloma
6 - Myeloproliferative diseases
7 - Alternative donor transplants
8 - Conditioning

Saturday, May 3
08.00-09.00 Breakfast Meet the Expert Sessions
Session VII Indications and results in adults / Chair: TBA
09.15-09.45 Myeloma * J.-L. Harousseau
09.45-10.15 CML J. Apperley
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.15 MDS * T. de Witte
11.15-12.30 Case presentation Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 Hodgkin A. Sureda
14.30-15.00 Immune reconstitution after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in humans * J. Barrett
15.00-15.30 Aplastic anaemia * J. Passweg
15.30-16.00 NHL I. Aurer
16.00-16.30 Autoimmune diseases TBA
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.30 Simultaneous sessions
Case discussion T. Masszi, A. Gratwohl
Workshop on statistical analysis * J. Passweg, M. Labopin

Sunday, May 4 Departure in the morning