| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 October 2008 – London Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority Annual Conference The HFEA will be holding its 2008 annual conference on 13 October at the Royal College of Surgeons in London , titled Delivering the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in Practice. Speakers will include the Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP (Minister of State for Public Health), Sir Alan Moses (Justice of Appeal), and Professor Lisa Jardine (new Chair of the HFEA). Attendance at the conference is free, though registration is required and places will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. To register, send a request by e-mail to: annualconference@hfea.gov.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 October 2008 bioProcessUK Special Interest Group Workshop on the Supply Chain for Cell Products In partnership with the Scottish Stem Cell Network, the knowledge transfer network bioProcessUK is holding the first meeting of its Bioprocessing for Advanced Therapies Special Interest Group at the Carlton Hotel in Edinburgh , UK on 9 October. The workshop aims to bring together bioprocess engineers with stem cell scientists interested in the development and manufacture of cell products. The speaker programme for the day includes leading experts from industry such as John Lovelady from Intercytex, Nathan Griffiths from AbCellute and Duncan Mackay from Genzyme. Attendance at the workshop is free, but registration is required. For the full programme and registration details, please view the links below: Workshop Flyer Registration Site ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 October 2008 - Durham Northeast England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) Research Day NESCI's next research day will take place on Friday 24 October in Durham , where the guest overseas speaker will be Haifan Lin from Yale University , USA . Further programme details will be made available via the NESCI website: http://www.nesci.ac.uk 17-18 November 2008 – London Sixth Annual Meeting on the Commercial Translation of Regenerative Medicine University College London 's sixth annual meeting Mapping the Path to Market for Autologous and Allogeneic Therapies will take place in London on 17-18 November. It will gather together the principal institutions from across the globe to discuss best practice in the product development and commercialisation of tissue engineered products and regenerative medicine therapies. Keynote speakers will include Steven Bauer (US Food and Drug Administration), Brock Reeve (Harvard Stem Cell Institute, USA ), Paul Kemp ( Intercytex , UK ) and Geoff Mackay ( Organogenesis , US ). For a full programme and registration information, send an e-mail request to Ola Samuelsson at Marcus Evans UK : marketing2@marcusevansuk.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 November 2008 - Edinburgh Launch Symposium for New MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine The new Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM) will be holding its launch event and accompanying scientific symposium at the Dynamic Earth venue in Edinburgh , UK on 24 November 2008. The keynote speaker will be Irving Weissman, Director of Stanford's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Registration is now open for this event at the link below, and access to the provisional programme for the symposium is available via the SCRM website at the second link below: Registration Hosted on Scottish Stem Cell Network Website SCRM Symposium Website ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26-27 November 2008 – Brighton BioProcessUK Annual Conference Developing Biological Medicines, Unravelling the Process The Knowledge Transfer Network bioProcessUK is holding its next annual conference in Brighton , UK from 26-27 November 2008 and is of interest to the stem cell research community. Registration for this conference is now open through the link below, where further details regarding the speaker programme can also be found: Programme and Registration Details ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 January 2008 - Sheffield Third UK Mesenchymal Stem Cell Meeting In partnership with the UKNSCN, the organisers of the annual mesenchymal stem cell group meeting are pleased to announce that their third conference will take place at the Octagon Centre, University of Sheffield , UK on 8 January 2009. This meeting follows on from the successes of the previous two meetings held in York in 2006 and 2007 when approximately 200 delegates attended and more than 40 abstracts were submitted. The programme for next January is again structured to include participation and discussion, and is an opportunity to present your research, network and exchange ideas in a friendly and informal environment. Prospective delegates are encouraged to submit abstracts covering all aspects of MSC biology and related areas for poster presentation. The highest scoring abstracts will be selected for oral presentation. The speaker programme includes world class researchers in Sir Richard Gardner ( Oxford ), Paolo Bianco (La Sapienza, Italy ), Francesco Dazzi (Imperial College London), Stuart Forbes ( Edinburgh ) and Stefan Przyborski ( Durham ). A flyer is attached to this bulletin, and registration will open on 15th September via the weblink below. The deadline for abstract submission will be 14 November, and the deadline for registration is 15 December. Further Details and Registration | 
