Invited speakers
International
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Martin Börgel (Germany)
CEO: DGFG
President: World Union of Tissue Bank Associations (WUTBA)
Cornea procurement and processing up to 72 Hours: no risk for cornea transplant quality
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Diletta Trojan (Italy)
President: European Association of Tissue & Cell Banks (EATCB)
Human Amnio in wound healing, Italy
Quality management
Musculoskeletal processing
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Chris van Diemen (Australia)
President: Biotherapeutics Association of Australia (BAA)
Faecal Microbiota set up in Australia
Status of Blood transfusion services in Australia
South East Asia update on Tissue Banking
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Heather Machin (Australia)
Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations (GAEBA)
The effect of tissue import / export
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Anna Salz (Germany) DGFG
Expanding eye donation network in North-India
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Silke Wahl (Germany) DGFG
Expanding eye donation network in North-India
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Nega (Ethiopian Eye Bank)
Cornea preservation: Cold storage
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Emilio Valdivia (Hamburg, Germany)
Genetic modification of limbal stem cells to decrease allogeneic immune responses
Local
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Michael Pepper ICMM
Relevance of cell & gene therapy in developing countries
Towards the development of a universal donor cell
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Riana Cockeran, SANBS
Fecal transplant: its uses, setting up a bank, donors and proposed regulation in SA
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Marion Vermeulen, SANBS
Prevalence of SARS covid 19 in SA blood donors
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Gary Dospassos, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
Cadaver skin in burn wound treatment
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Yvonne Holt, Nextbio
Amniotic membrane and its therapeutic uses
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Theo le Roux, Orthopedic surgeon, Pretoria East Hospital
Bone fiber technology – a first for SA
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Melodie Labushaigne, UNISA School of Law
Legal and ethical issues relating to the sharing of stored human biological samples and related data to third parties
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Charlotte Ingram, SABMR
SA Bone Marrow Registry: difficulties caused by the lack of representation
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Elize Wolmerans, ICMM
Human alternatives to Bovine Serum for tissue culture purposes
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Tanya Glatt, SANBS
Long term storage of stem cells