The 7th AnnualPrevious Years' Symposia
Our Event has shown tremendous growth in attendance and scope of the Scientific Program since its first year. The attendance for the 2008 Meeting was 528 individuals with 25 exhibiting companies.
Each Symposium has attracted an increased number of attendees, including leaders of the major transplant centers from around the globe. Attendees have been from Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, France, the UK, Israel, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Malaysia, India, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Slovak Republic, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Greece, Netherlands, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Canada and from across the USA.
Please click on each year below to access information on the prior Symposia.
Click on the image above to access the website from the 2008 Symposium.
Thank you to all who partipated in 2008's tremendously successful event!
We are sorry, but due to overwhelming demand, the CD containing the audio and the slides used by the lecturers is no longer available.
Click on the image above to access the website from the 2007 Symposium.
We are sorry, but due to overwhelming demand, the CD containing the audio and the slides used by the lecturers is no longer available.
The Summary and Abstracts of the Fifth Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium have now been published: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2007;13(11):1380-92. Reprints are still available. To receive a reprint, send your postal mailing address to: symposiumreprint@cordbloodforum.org.
Click on the image above to access the website from the 2006 Symposium.
The 4th Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium was held May 19-20, 2006 in Los Angeles. The 34 member faculty for the Symposium included leaders of the major transplant centers from around the globe. Attendees were from Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, France, the UK, Israel, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Malaysia, India, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Slovak Republic, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Greece, Netherlands, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand and from across the USA.
The Summary and Abstracts of the Fourth Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium (May 19-20, Los Angeles) have been published: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2006;12:1206.
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The 3rd Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium was held June 3 and 4, 2005 in Los Angeles.
The 31 member faculty for the Symposium included leaders of the major transplant centers in the United States, France, Japan, Spain and Taiwan.
Attendees included visitors from Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, France, the UK, Israel, Mexico, Columbia, Cyprus, Switzerland, India, Sweden, Italy, Taiwan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Greece, Canada, Chile, Korea and from around the United States.
Topics reviewed included transplantation of adults, infectious complications and immune reconstitution, approaches to improve the efficacy of cord blood transplants, quality issues in cord blood banking, transplantation of children, regenerative medicine and accreditation issues. The Symposium concluded with a review of the Report of the Institute of Medicine which was requested by the United States Congress and which strongly supports cord blood banking and transplantation.
A summary of the 3rd Annual Symposium and abstracts of the presentations were published in the November 2005 issue of Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (2005;11:921-939).
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The Second Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium was held May 14 and 15 in Los Angeles. The rapidly growing interest in cord blood transplantation was indicated in part by the fact that attendees were from Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom and from around the United States. The scientific sessions reviewed the use of cord blood units for transplantation of adults, supportive care in cord blood tranplantation; current strategies in unrelated cord blood donor selection, transplantation for childhood and genetic disorders; the immune status following cord blood transplantation; ex-vivo expansion; regenerative medicine; and contemporary issues in cord blood banking.
A summary of the meeting and abstracts of presentations have been published in the October 2004 issue of Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2004;10:728-739