Forthcoming Issues

Congress President: N. Schmitz, Hamburg

Scientific Chair: A. Zander, Hamburg

The history and the future of stem cell transplantation

• From mice to man D. van Bekkum (Rijswijk, NL)
• Sleepless in Seattle - milestones of a successful experimental and clinical programme R. Storb (Seattle, USA)
• The future, J.F. Apperley (London, UK)

Tolerance: a double - edged sword

• How tumours escape T. Boon (Brussels, B
• Transplantation tolerance P. Matzinger (Bethesda, USA)

The basics of transplant immunology

• Innate immunity S. Strober (Stanford, USA)
• Adaptive immunity H. Stauss (London, UK)

Chair: Professor Melvin Greaves

• Tracking through the jungles of genomes Dr. Leanne Wiedemann Stowers Institute for Medical Research Kansas City
• Did we discover Buddha genes? Professor Shuki Mizutani Tokyo Medical Dental University
• Beyond Berkeleyomics: is there a message in the sequence? Dr. Joe Wiemels University of California San Francisco
• The sexiest cells in the universe? Professor Tariq Enver Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford
• Removing the blindfold from the marksman: Using tools of theretiarii gladiators Professor John Kersey University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Leukemias as “models” for epithelial cancers: It’s all about stem cells and chromosomes! Professor Carios Caldas University of Cambridge
• Tea leaves and tails from Hong Kong Professor Lichan University of Hong Kong
• Cancer stem cells: How the Mounties got their man Professor John Dick Princess Margasret Hospital, Toronto
• Me, industrial science, target treatmemt And why Mel is not always right Professor Gareth Morgan Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton
• Life beyond the ICR Dr. Ana Terese Maia University of Cambridge
• Epilogue Professor Mel Greaves Institute of Cancer Research, London

Organisation: Professeor Zander, Dr. Carol Stocking, Dr.Boris Fehse

• B-Cell Development Fritz Melschers Biozentrum of the University of Basel
• Sixty years of immunology Nicholas Mitchison Windeyer Institute of Medical Science, London
• Supressor T cells: answered and unanswerd questions Harald von Boehmer Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
• Tumor stroma: The Achilles heel of the tumor Thomas Blankenstein Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin,Berlin
• Functional analysis of TCR-transduced MHCclass I-restricted helper T-cells and their role in tumor protection Hans Stauss University College London

Interviews

• Professor Peter Chumakow Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Professor Elena I.Frolova Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Professor Amanda Fisher ICSM Hammersmith Hospital, London
• Professor Hans-Jochen Kolb Universität München
• Professor Katarina Le Blank Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
• Professor Frank Marini III M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
• Professor Fritz Melchers Biozentrum of the University of Basel
• Professor Vladimir Prassolov Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
• ProfessorYair Reissner Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Alexandra Sipol Pavlov`s State Medical University, Saint-Petersburg
• Professor Hans Stauss University College London

Organisation: Professor Rüdiger Hehlmann

• The still open questions of differentiation and self-renewal of stem-cells Don Metcalf Melbourne
• Nuclear cloning, embryonic stem cells and The promise for transplantation therapy Rudi Jaenisch Boston
• From CML to targeted therapy in solid cancers Rüdiger Hehlmann Mannheim
• CML present and future H. Kantarjian Houston
• Modern Trends in genetics of lymphomas Carlo Croce, Columbus (nur Interview)
• Progress in curing adult acute leukemias Clara Bloomfield, Columbus
• Human endogenous retroviruses including Introduction to retroviruses Reinhart Kurt
• T-Lymphocyte transformation by oncogenic Herpesvirus including HHV 6 and 8 B.Fleckenstein, Erlangen
• What’s up in HIV vaccines-any implications to cancer? Robert Gallo, Baltimore

Interviews

• Professor Rüdiger Hehlmann, Mannheim
• Professor Carlo Croce, Columbus
• Professor Jams C. Neil, Glasgow
• Professor Peter Bieberfeld, Stockholm
• Professor Ruth Ruprecht, Bosten
• Professor Valery Savchenko, Moscow
• Professor Jan Svoboda, Prag