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In Utero Transplantation & Fetal Gene Therapy

This second International Conference will cover the very latest research on in utero transplantation, fetal immunology and fetal gene therapy

09 Oct

Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, 9th October 2015

This second International Conference will cover the very latest research on in utero transplantation, fetal immunology and fetal gene therapy.

Following the successful inaugural international conference in San Francisco in April 2014, the theme of this second meeting is ‘Transplanting fetal stem cell and gene therapies into the clinic’.

Hear the latest research on treating haemoglobinopathies and brittle bone diseases using fetal approaches.  Understand recent discoveries about the developing fetal immune system.

Conference organisers are:

  • Dr Anna David, Consultant in Obstetrics and Maternal/Fetal Medicine at UCL Hospitals and Reader at the UCL Institute for Women’s Health
  • Professor Paolo De Coppi, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London.

For more information and to register please see the GOSH website.