PACT Summer School entitled Advanced Cellular Therapies in Vienna, Austria. Regenerative medicine with cell based therapies and advances in cell and molecular biology have become potentially powerful instruments in the available arsenal of the physician and surgeon in order to combat many degenerative conditions and diseases. The Summer School's course program is designed for PhD and doctoral students with the objective to address selected topics from actual research themes where potential therapeutic applications (in a bench to bedside approach) may become available in the not too distant future for the benefit of patient outcomes. Come, meet, listen and discuss with experts these exciting new potential developments in cell and molecular biology in association with veterinary and human medicine. At www.pact.ac.at you will find the announcement including application form and the preliminary time schedule of the course.

Topics:

– Skin models as an alternative to animal testing (Prof. Dr. Heike Walles – University of Würzburg, Germany)

– Multipotent stem cells: from bench to bedside (Prof. Dr. Dirk Strunk and Dr. Cornelia Schuh – Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria)

– Veterinary regenerative medicine – from animal models to animal patients (Prof. Dr. Florien Jenner and Dr. Iris Ribitsch – University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria)

– Pluripotent stem cells: generation, characterization and clinical applications (Prof. Dr. Regina Grillari and Dr. Markus Schosserer – Evercyte GmbH and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,Vienna, Austria)

– Stem cells and stem cell transplantation in the clinical setting (Prof. Dr. Michael B. Fischer – Danube University Krems, Austria)

Application deadline: 20 May 2015

Applications will undergo a selection procedure and applicants will be notified on or before the 26 May 2015 about their resulting admission to the Summer School.

The fee has to be transferred until 6 June 2015. Your registration will be confirmed as soon as we receive the payment.