International Conference on Regenerative Medicine in Leipzig

Posted: October 9, 2013 at 12:45 pm

09.10.2013 - (idw) Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine (TRM) Leipzig

The World Conference on Regenerative Medicine will be held in Leipzig from 23 25 October 2013. Around 1,000 international researchers, medical practitioners and company representatives will take part in the event, exchanging views on new stem cell technologies, artificial tissue engineering, biomaterials, diagnostics and molecular bases of regeneration. For further details and the final scientific programme, please visit the conference homepage http://www.wcrm-leipzig.com. Over 40 renowned speakers will present their latest research projects across the three-day event. Two of these scientists are Li Qian, McAllister Heart Institute, USA, and Marius Wernig, Stanford School of Medicine, USA, whose research focuses on the direct reprogramming of cells.

At the end of 2012, Shinya Yamanaka, Japan, and John Gurdon, UK, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the reprogramming of differentiated cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). Similar to embryonic stem cells, iPS cells are able to redevelop into any type of cell in the body. Based on this technology, other research groups have now managed to directly transform cells - without having to go via iPS cells, a path which had proven to be laborious and ineffective. This direct form of cell reprogramming is one of the current topics being addressed at the World Conference on Regenerative Medicine.

The World Conference on Regenerative Medicine is organised every two years by the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology and the Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Leipzig.

Contact

Maria Garz | Press and Public Relations Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine (TRM) Leipzig | Leipzig University

Jens Augustin | Head of Press and Public Relations Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI

Tel.: +49 341 35536-9320 E-Mail: press@wcrm-leipzig.com Weitere Informationen:http://www.wcrm-leipzig.com - Conference Homepagehttp://www.izi.fraunhofer.de - Fraunhofer IZI homepage / Organizerhttp://www.trm.uni-leipzig.de - TRM Leipzig homepage / Organizer

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