Stem Cell Therapies for Musculoskeletal Applications: From Bench to Bedside
Monday 24 November, 6.00pm
Auditorium, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill.
Regenerative medicine is a new exciting field that aims to develop stem cell treatments for conditions that result in loss of tissues such as osteoarthritis. There is vibrant interest in stem cell research, but how far are we from a routine use of stem cells in the clinic?
Depending on the clinical indication, two main stem cell-based therapeutic strategies are being pursued: transplantation of exogenous stem cells and pharmacological activation of endogenous resident stem cells.
Professor De Bari will review current stem cell research for musculoskeletal applications and discuss the hurdles that need to be overcome before therapies based on human stem cells can enter the clinic.
Professor Cosimo De Bari graduated in Medicine (maxima cum laude) from the University of Bari (Italy), where he also underwent specialist training in Rheumatology. He then moved to Belgium, where he obtained his PhD from the University of Leuven.
In 2003 Cosimo moved to the UK in the Department of Rheumatology at King’s College London. In May 2005 he was awarded an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship and in December 2005 was appointed Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology.
Since September 2007 Cosimo has been Professor of Translational Medicine and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at the University of Aberdeen, heading a unit of stem cell research for skeletal tissue repair in the Bone & Musculoskeletal Research Programme.
Cosimo has expertise in the field of stem cell research for musculoskeletal repair, regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.
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