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BMT Conferences

Held every Monday
1:15-2:15 p.m.
Room 450, Cancer Center Research Building

DATE TOPIC SPEAKER
09/11/06 No BMT conference Cancer Center President's Cancer Panel
09/18/06 Attending meeting  
09/25/06 Program meeting  
10/02/06 Microbial contamination of hematopoietic stem cell products: Incidence and clinical sequelae Linda Burns, M.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
10/09/06 Umbilical cord blood transplantation: Contribution of HLA matching and cell dose John E. Wagner, Jr., M.D .
Director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Scientific Director of Clinical Research, University of Minnesota Blood and Marrow Transplant Program and Stem Cell Institute
Director, Center for Molecular and Cellular Therapy
10/16/06 Total marrow irradiation using tomotherapy in stem cell transplantation: theoretical aspects and experience to date Susanta K Hui, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Therapeutic Radiology

Kathryn E. Dusenbery, M.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Therapeutic Radiology

Michael R. Verneris, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplant
10/23/06 Iron Overload Following HCT Navneet Majhail, M.D., Fellow, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
  Randomized Phase II Study of Zoledronic Acid in the Prevention of Osteoporsis

Bexxar BEAM for NHL

Linda Burns, M.D., Associate Professor, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
  A Phase II Randomized, Multicenter Trial Comparing Sirolimus/Tacrolimus with Tacrolimus/Methotrexate as Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD) Prophylaxis After HLA-Matched, Related Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Margaret MacMillan, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  What does CSA do to NK Cells? Michael Verneris, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  Nonmyeloablative UCB Transplantation Myeloablative UCB Transplantation Claudio Brunstein, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of HOT
  GVHD Studies Daniel Weisdorf, M.D., Professor of Medicine Director, Adult Blood & Marrow Transplant Program
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Mukta Arora, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of HOT
10/30/06 Dyskeratosis congenita: an under-recognized cause of bone marrow failure Blanche P. Alter, M.D., M..PH., Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services
11/06/06 Potential new radioprotective agents Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Ph.D., D(ABMLI)
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Minnesota
11/13/06 Maribavir: a new CMV antiviral agent Jo-Anne van Burik, M.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine and Infectious Disease
University of Minnesota
11/20/06 Attending meeting  

11/27/06

ASH Presentations

Notch activation in cord blood progenitors induces a CD7+ common NK/T precursor capable of NK cell commitment without full maturation and differentiation of lineage committed pre-T lymphocytes with a Th 1 phenotype Veronika Bachanova, M.D.
Division, HOT
  Characterization of hematopoietic progenitor cells derived from human embryonic stem cells that differentiate into natural killer cells capable of in vivo anti-tumor activity Petter Woll
Graduate Research Assistant
Division, HOT
  Single versus double umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT): Higher risk of acute graft versus host disease (GVHD) but lower transplant related mortality (TRM) in recipients of double UCBT Margaret MacMillan, M.D.
Division, Pediatric H/O/BMT
  Toll-like receptor 7-targeting of human B-lineage acute lymphocytic leukemia induces immunogeneicity and apoptosis of leukemia cells Xueqing Liang
Research Associate
Division, Pediatric H/O/BMT
  Sleeping beauty (SB) transposon mediated umbilical cord blood (UCB) T cell therapy for refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) Xianzheng Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
Division, Pediatric H/O/BMT

12/04/06

ASH Presentations

Umbilical cord blood transplant after reduced intensity conditioning provides outcomes comparable HLA-matched siblings for patients with high risk and advanced acute myeloid leukemia Claudio Brunstein, M.D., Ph.D. Division, HOT
 

- Lymphodepletion followed by donor lymphocyte infusions (DLI) causes significantly more acute graft versus host disease than DLI alone

- KIR ligand absence in recipients of unreleased donor (URD) Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is associated with less relapse and increased graft versus host disease (GVHD)

Jeffrey Miller, M.D.
Division, HOT
  Unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) for hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) K. Scott Baker, M.D., M.S.
Division, Pediatric H/O/BMT
  Induction of endogenous repair mechanisms by single-stranded DNA oligonucleotide therapy for correction of the DNA-PK mutation in murine severe combined immune deficiency Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D.
Division, Pediatric H/O/BMT
12/11/06 No conference due to ASH  
12/18/06 Thinking outside the dish Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
12/25/06 No conference due to holiday  
01/01/07 No conference due to holiday  
01/08/07 New developments in vaccinology Jo-Anne van Burik, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medcine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine
University of Minnesota
01/15/07 No conference due to Martin Luther King holiday  
01/22/07 Non-myeloablative sibling donor transplants Marcie Tomblyn, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology and Transplantation
University of Minnesota
01/29/07 Program meeting  
02/05/07 Thymic shielding in recipients of TBI and alternative donor HSCT: Reduced risk of opportunistic infection in patients with FA Margaret MacMillan, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
02/12/07 No conference due to Tandem meetings  
02/19/07 Transplantation for the older patient with AML and MDS

Betul Oran, M.D.
Department of Internal Medicine
Boston University Medical Center
BMT faculty candidate

Hosted by: Daniel Weisdorf, M.D

02/26/07 Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk factors in survivors after HCT Scott Baker, M.D., MS
Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
03/05/07   Mukta Arora, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of HOT
University of Minnesota
03/12/07 High dose granulocyte transfusion therapy for the treatment of infection in neutropenia Jo-Anne van Burik, M.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine and Infectious Disease
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Jeffrey McCullough, M.D.
Professor Lab Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
03/19/07 Leukodystrophies: clinical, biochemical and genomic studies Paul Orchard, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
University of Minnesota
03/26/07 Attending meeting  
04/02/07 Update of allogeneic NK cell therapies: from lab to clinic Sarah Cooley, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine Division of HOT
University of Minnesota
04/09/07 Umbilical cord blood Claudio Brunstein, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of HOT
University of Minnesota
04/16/07 Transposon-mediated T-cell therapy for leukemia: from bench to bedside Xianzheng Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation
University of Minnesota
04/23/07 Results of mycophenolate pharmacokinetic and busulfan pharmacogenetic studies Pamala Jacobson, Pharm D.
Associate Professor
Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology
College of Pharmacy
University of Minnesota
04/30/07 Immune globulins in clinical use Jo-Anne van Burik, M.D. Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine and Infectious Disease
University of Minnesota
05/07/07 Mechanisms underlying dendritic Ccell-induced CD4 Treg generation Wei Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
University of Minnesota
05/14/07 What is new in anti-tumor therapies from human ES cells? Daniel Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Stem Cell Institute
Department of Medicine
University of Minnesota
05/21/07 CD4+25+ T regulatory cells (Tregs) using cell-based artificial antigen-presenting cells (aAPCs) Keli Hippen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
University of Minnesota
05/28/07 Canceled due to holiday  

2005-2006 Conferences
2004-2005 Conferences
2003-2004 Conferences

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