Blood Disorders: Models, Mechanisms and Therapies

Date: 29 September – 1 October 2019

Location: Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Boston, USA

Organisers: Monica Justice, Nancy Speck, Paresh Vyas and Leonard Zon

Advancing basic research findings to the clinic remains a daunting task. Researchers in the field of hematopoiesis have made significant progress in this regard by taking discoveries from model organisms to the clinic. Such advances, including bone marrow transfers, stem cell replacements and immunotherapies, have also had a large impact on the treatment of non-blood disorders.

This meeting on blood disorders and their treatment, organised by the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms, was curated by Editor-in-Chief Monica Justice, Nancy Speck, Paresh Vyas and Leonard Zon. The meeting brought together diverse front-line researchers, stimulated discussions across basic research and clinical disciplines, and fostered collaborative links among researchers.

Talks featured basic research advances acquired across multiple model organisms, as they are applied to human blood disorders. A primary aim was to promote knowledge of therapies or drug discovery that has been developed pre-clinically to move to a clinical trial.

Topics:

Blood development: mechanisms and pathology
Epigenetic regulation of blood development
Erythropoiesis and red cell disorders
Targeting blood cancers
Clonal hematopoiesis
Manipulating the stem cell niche

Organisers & speakers

Monica Justice The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Nancy Speck University of Pennsylvania, USA
Paresh Vyas University of Oxford, UK
Leonard Zon Boston Children’s Hospital, USA

Scott Armstrong Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Fernando Camargo Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
Peter Campbell Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
George Daley Harvard Medical School, USA
John Dick University Health Network, Canada
Ben Ebert Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Giuliana Ferrari San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR TIGET), Italy
Maria Figueroa University of Miami, USA
Margaret Goodell Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Trista North Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA
Stuart H. Orkin Harvard Medical School/HHMI, USA
Emmanuelle Passegué Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Tannishtha Reya University of California, San Diego, USA
Vijay Sankaran Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA
Merav Socolovsky University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Kimberly Stegmaier Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
David Traver University of California, San Diego, USA
Neal Young National Institutes of Health, USA

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Blood Disorders: Models, Mechanisms and Therapies

29 September – 1 October 2019

Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Boston, USA

Venue

The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center

The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center is a state of the art conference center located within The New Research Building at Harvard Medical School in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area.

The meeting took place in the Rotunda and started at 9:00 am on Sunday 29 September and finished at lunchtime on Tuesday 1 October 2019.

* This meeting was not affiliated with Harvard University, nor was this meeting a Harvard University program or activity. It was organised by Disease Models & Mechanisms, the Open Access biomedical research journal from The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit publishing organisation dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community.

Registration packages

The fees include;

Registration and meeting costs
Catering included –
- Day 1: 2 coffee breaks, tote lunch, reception drinks and canapés
- Day 2: 2 coffee breaks, tote lunch, reception drinks
- Day 3: Coffee break and tote lunch
Delegate pack and programme

It is expected that all attendees will stay for the duration of the Meeting.

	PhD students /postdocs	Academia	Industry
Delegate rates	$475	$630	$795

There is an additional charge of $120 for attendees to join the meeting dinner on the evening of Monday 30 September.

Please enquire for more information if interested at dmm19meeting@biologists.com.

Local hotels

The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School is in the middle of the Longwood medical area in the southwest corner of Boston. The address is 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Local hotels (note that DMM has no connection with any hotel listed and makes no recommendation)

THE INN AT LONGWOOD MEDICAL – BOSTON

Approx. 0.17 miles west of conference centre; about 3 minutes walking.

RESIDENCE INN BOSTON BACK BAY / FENWAY

Approx. 0.53 miles west of conference centre; about 9 minutes walking.

THE VERB HOTEL

Approx. 0.58 miles west of conference centre; about 10 minutes walking.

THE INN AT BROOKLINE

Approx. 0.76 miles west of conference centre; about 13 minutes walking.

HOTEL COMMONWEALTH (speaker and organiser hotel)

Approx. 0.83 miles west of conference centre; about 15 minutes walking.

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