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10th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases
Focus Topic: Cell Trafficking and the Niche
November 16-18, 2011 - Sonoma, California

Student/Fellow Presentations

 
 

Thursday, November 17, 2011


 
 
Janet Chung, Ph.D.
Tania I. Fuentes, B.S.
 
 
Janet Chung, Ph.D.
(City of Hope)
“Multiplexing Small Nucleolar RNAs to Inhibit HIV-1 Replication”

Tania I. Fuentes, B.S.
(Loma Linda University)
“Co-transplantation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Human Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Cardiovascular Repair Activates Host-Derived Cardiovascular Progenitor Cells”
 
 
Megan D. Hoban, B.S
Ulrike Jung, Ph.D.
 
 
Megan D. Hoban, B.S.
(University of California, Los Angeles)
“Efficient and Transient Delivery of Zinc Finger Nucleases by Non-Integrating Lentiviral Vectors”
Ulrike Jung, Ph.D.
(City of Hope)
“Addition of a Modified polyA Signal and Intron into a Lentiviral Platform for RNAi and Protein Over-Expression Provides Potent Efficacy while Maintaining High Vector Titers”

 
 
Christina A. Pacak, Ph.D.
Nutan Prasain, Ph.D.
 
 
Christina A. Pacak, Ph.D.
(Harvard University)
“Characterization of a Muscle Derived Stem Cell to Develop a Bioengineered Alternative to Pacemakers for Children with AV Block”
Nutan Prasain, Ph.D.
(Indiana University)
“miR302 Cluster Completes iPS Cell Reprogramming through Suppression of MBD2”

 
 
Barbara K. Smith, Ph.D., P.T.
 
 
Barbara K. Smith, Ph.D., P.T.
(University of Florida)
“Phase I/II Trial of Diaphragm Gene Therapy for Pompe Disease: Initial Ventilatory Outcomes”
 
 
 

Friday, November 18, 2011


 
 
Denise Carbonaro, Ph.D.
David D. Dickey, B.S.
 
 
Denise Carbonaro, Ph.D.
(Stanford University)
“Factor VIII Gene Therapy”

David D. Dickey, B.S.
(University of Iowa)
“Directed Evolution of AAV in Pig Airway Epithelia In Vivo
 
 
Sabine Geiger, M.S.
Katrin Hacke, Ph.D.
 
 
Sabine Geiger, M.S.
(University of California, Los Angeles)
“Preclinical Studies for Gene Therapy of Sickle Cell Disease using Bone Marrow CD34+ Cells modified with a ßAS3-Globin Lentiviral Vector”

Katrin Hacke, Ph.D.
(University of California, Los Angeles)
“Combined Preconditioning and In Vivo Chemoselection with 6-Thioguanine Alone Results in Highly Efficient Reconstitution of Normal Hematopoiesis with HPRT-Deficient Bone Marrow”
 
 
Sushrusha Nayak, Ph.D., M.D., Ph.D.
Benjamin R. Steines, B S.
 
 
Sushrusha Nayak, Ph.D.
(University of Florida)
“Successful Rituximab Based Immune Modulation for Pompe Disease”

Benjamin R. Steines, B S.
(University of Iowa)
“AAV2 and AAV8 as Gene Therapy Vectors Targeting Distal Lung Epithelial Progenitor Cells”
 
 
Heather L. Thompson, B.S.
   
 
Heather L. Thompson, B.S.
(University of California, Merced)
“Host F4/80+ Splenic Macrophages are Increased after Transplantation of Allogeneic Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Hematopoietic Progenitors”