Conference Programme

Last Updated: 9th September 2010

Wednesday 29th September

11.00	Registration
12.00-13.00	Lunch
12.30-13.50	Annual General Meeting
13.50-14.00	Opening Comments	Jacqui Lunday, Chief Health Professions Officer, Scottish Executive Health Department
	Session 1:	Chair: David Briggs
14.00-15.00	Terasaki Lecture: Differential immunogenicity of HLA mismatches in clinical transplantation	Frans Claas, Leiden University Medical Center
15.00-15.30	Tea and Coffee
	Session 2:	Chairs: Bob Vaughan & David Turner
15.30-16.15	Renal Transplant Surgery	John Forsythe, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
16.15-17.15	Invitrogen Young Scientist Abstracts
17.15-19.00	Trade Reception	Cheese, Biscuits & Wine
19.00	Optional 'Ghost Walk' tour in Old Town (Please meet in the Royal College Foyer for the Ghost Walk)

Thursday 30th September

	Session 3: HSCT	Chair: Jackie Cornish
09.00-09.45	Cord Blood Banking - Lessons learned and future developments	Cristina Navarrete, NHSBT, Colindale
09.45-10.30	Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplantation for haematological malignancies	Andrew Clark, Glasgow
10.30-11.00	Tea and Coffee
	Session 4: Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapy	Chair: Paul Travers
11.00-11.45	Translation of human embryo stem cell research to regenerative medical therapies	Paul De Sousa, University of Edinburgh
11.45-12.30	BloodPharming: Can we use stem cells to generate a secure blood supply for the future?	Jo Mountford, University of Glasgow
12.30-13.30	Lunch/Trade/Trainee Forum (Seminar Room) RE Committee Meeting (Cullen Suite)
	Session 4: (continued)	Chair: David Wilson
13.30-14.15	Development of an allogeneic CTL bank for treatment of EBV + PTLD	Marc Turner, SNBTS, Edinburgh
14.15-15.00	Islet cell transplantation	John Casey, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
15.00-15.30	Tea and Coffee
	Session 5:	Chairs: Noel Collins and Judith Worthington
15.30-16.30	Best Selected Abstracts
16.30-17.45	Ethics debate	Chair: Phil Dyer, SNBTS, Edinburgh
19.00	Reception in the New Library and Gala Dinner in the Great Hall at the Royal College Physicians, Edinburgh

Friday 1 October

	Session 6: Disease association & transfusion	Chair: Deb Sage
09.00-09.40	HLA-B27: new insights into genetics and biochemistry of disease	Simon Powis, St Andrew's University
09.40-10.20	Current and future perspectives in platelet and granulocyte immunology	Geoff Lucas, NHSBT, Bristol
10.20-10.40	Tea and Coffee
	Session 7: Research Executive Session	Chair: Ann Margaret Little
10.40-11.20	The impact of genome-wide variation in renal transplant donors and recipients on graft survival	Graham Lord, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and King's College London
11.20-12.00	The potential use of pharmacogenetics to individualise immunosuppresive therapy	Iain Macphee, University of London
12.00-13.00	Hilliard Festenstein Lecture: KIR Immunogenetics: the forest and the Trees	Peter Parham, Stanford
13.00-14.00	Lunch / session on preparation for ACS assessment (Seminar Room) and proposed national HSCT immunogenetics project, D Briggs, main lecture theatre
	Session 8	Chair: Leigh Keen and Cath Chapman
14.00-15.00	Selected abstracts
15.00-15.15	Closing comments from BSHI Chair	Paul Sinnott, Barts and The Royal London

* Please note selected keynote presentations will be available in a password protected area on the BSHI website after the meeting.

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Dates to Remember

Friday 12 March
Opening of on line registration

Friday 19 March
First call for on line abstract submission

Friday 16 June
Abstract submission deadline

Friday 30 July
Early registration deadline