Invited speakers
International

Martin Börgel (Germany)
Cornea procurement and processing up to 72 Hours: no risk for cornea transplant quality

Diletta Trojan (Italy)
Human Amnio in wound healing, Italy
Quality management
Musculoskeletal processing

Chris van Diemen (Australia)
Faecal Microbiota set up in Australia
Status of Blood transfusion services in Australia
South East Asia update on Tissue Banking

Heather Machin (Australia)
Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations update
The effect of tissue import / export

Anna Salz (Germany)
Expanding eye donation network in North-India

Silke Wahl (Germany)
Expanding eye donation network in North-India

Nega (Ethiopian Eye Bank)
Cornea preservation: Cold storage

Emilio Valdivia (Germany)
Genetic modification of limbal stem cells to decrease allogeneic immune responses
Local

Michael Pepper
Relevance of cell & gene therapy in developing countries
Towards the development of a universal donor cell

Riana Cockeran
Fecal transplant: its uses, setting up a bank, donors and proposed regulation in SA

Marion Vermeulen
Prevalence of SARS covid 19 in SA blood donors

Gary Dospassos
Cadaver skin in burn wound treatment

Yvonne Holt
Amniotic membrane and its therapeutic uses

Theo le Roux
Bone fiber technology – a first for SA

Melodie Labushaigne
Legal and ethical issues relating to the sharing of stored human biological samples and related data to third parties

Charlotte Ingram
SA Bone Marrow Registry: difficulties caused by the lack of representation

Elize Wolmerans
Human alternatives to Bovine Serum for tissue culture purposes

Tanya Glatt
Long term storage of stem cells