Gene Therapy
September 23 - 27, 1998
Invited Speakers:
In keeping with Cold Spring Harbor tradition, the majority of talks will be chosen from openly submitted abstracts. Session chairs will be announced at our web site.
Program:
You are cordially invited to participate in the fourth biennial meeting on Gene Therapy, which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting will begin with dinner and the first session on the evening of Wednesday, September 23 and will conclude with lunch on Sunday, September 27.
There are a number of conceptual and technical obstacles that stand in the way of the principles of human gene therapy becoming a practical clinical reality. These problems include the need for more profound understanding of disease pathogenesis, for carrying out efficient and targeted gene delivery ex vivo and in vivo, and for ensuring stable and regulated expression of therapeutic transgenes. The Cold Spring Harbor meeting on human gene therapy will concentrate on an examination of issues related to the identification and solution to these and other fundamental questions. Each session will include summaries of the state-of-the-art and the nature of technical and conceptual hurdles as well as presentations of new work selected from the submitted abstracts.
The meeting will include discussions of the following topics:
• design and use of established and newly emerging vector systems, both viral and non-viral
• cell isolation and transplantation issues for ex vivo gene transfer models
• targeted in vivo gene or vector delivery
• regulation of transgene experssion
• homologous recombination for targeting integration and mutation correction
• host responses to vectors and to transgene expression
The format of the meeting will include morning and evening sessions, selected from the abstracts, principally on unpublished work. In addition, there will be two poster sessions, held in the afternoons. The organizers will decide the suitability of each abstract for oral or poster presentation, but please specify if you prefer a poster.
Registration :
We encourage you to register and submit abstracts online.
Deadline for Abstracts: July 8, 1998
Email for Requests and Registration: meetings@cshl.org