Programme of the Workshop on "Heart Regeneration"

Friday
15 August

12.00 - 12.15

Welcome and Opening by the Chair, Professor Yrjö T. Konttinen

12.15 - 13.00

Structure of the human heart by Professor Ismo Virtanen (Helsinki) (tbc)

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.45

Function of the Human Heart (tbc)

14.45 - 15.30

Free papers

15.30 - 16.15

Isolation and comparison of MSCs from different sources by Dr. Gerjo van Osch (Rotterdam) (tbc)

16.15 - 16.30

Coffee

16.30 - 17.15

Lecture:  MSC markers and their analysis using qRT-PCR by PhD Mari Ainola (Helsinki)

17.15 - 18.00

Free papers

18.00

A summation of the day by Professor Yrjö T. Konttinen

18.15 -

Picnic to Seurassari or Dinner

Saturday     
16 August

9.00 - 9.45

Intramyocardial stem cell therapy for myocardial ischemia - clinical introduction by Professor Gustav Steinhoff (Rostock)

9.45 - 10.30

Free papers

10.30 - 11.15

Engineering stem cell homing and targeting by Dr. Nan Ma (Rostock)

11.15 - 12.00

Free papers

12.00 - 13.00

Lunch

13.00 -13.45

Interstitial Cajal-like cells (ICLC) or Popescu's cells by Associate Professor Mihai Minescu (Bucharest)

13.45 - 14.30

Free papers

14.30 - 15.15

Replicative senescence of mesen chymal stem cells:  a continuous and organize process by Professor Anthony-Dick Ho (Heidelberg)

15.15 - 16.00

Discussion / Coffee

16.00 -

Picnic to Seurasaari or Dinner

Sunday
17 August

9.00 - 9.45

Experience on the development of GLP/GMP platform to use fetal and autologous cells for clinical applications by Professor Dominique Pioletti

9.45 - 10.30

Free papers

10.30 - 11.15

Lecture:  Clean room facilities and quality control systems in MSC research in a production plant by EU-directives

11.15 - 12.15

Lunch

12.15 - 13.00

Marker tolerant animals as a new tool in regenerative medicine, with special emphasis on heart by Professor Reinhold G. Erben (Vienna)

13.00

Workshop Close