Date: Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Time: 3:00pm-4:30 pm, Reception to Follow
Location: Pechet Room
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
at Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston MA, 02115
“Current Issues in Human Gene Therapy”
David Williams, M.D.
Director of Translational Research, Children’s Hospital
Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital Boston,
Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
“Using Gene Therapy as a Platform for Pediatricians
to Manufacture Drugs for Pediatric Cancer”
Laurence J.N. Cooper, M.D., Ph.D.
Grant Taylor, W. W. Sutow and Margaret Sullivan Distinguished Professor in Pediatrics
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Section Chief, Cell Therapy, Children’s Cancer Hospital
Director, Immunology Laboratory of Physician Scientists
“Integrating and Non-integrating Retrovirus Based Vectors for Cell Modification”
Christopher Baum, M.D.
Professor, Experimental Haematology
Head, Department of Experimental Haematology
Hannover Medical School
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation