In the sessions dedicated to this young field of medical sciences, the following topics will be discussed:

• Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy.  General aspects, stem cells sources, obtention, preparation and expansion of stem cells;  preclinical and clinical experiences.
• Application of cell therapy in angiology, orthopedia and traumatology.
• Cell therapy in different diseases, among them:  cardiac, neurological, lung and dental diseases and other.
• Use of platelets as part of Regenerative Medicine.
• Regenerative Medicine and its link with Sport Medicine.
• Other means of application of Regenerative Medicine, Duch as:  recombinant factors, tissue engeneering, etc.
• Integration of blood banks and cell therapy.
• Development, advances and perspectives of Regenerative Desarrollo, avances y perspectivas de la Medicina Regenerativa y la Terapia Celular en Cuba.

  Papers in posters will also be presented in this area.

Hematology is the main subject of our congress and in the sessions related to its different topics there will be symposia and presentations on:

• Leukemias.

• Chronic immunolymphoproliferative síndrome.

• Chronic myeloproliferative síndrome.

• Stem cell transplantation.

• Nutritional Anemias.

• Symposium of the International Society of Hematology.

Prestigious national and foreign experts will talk about their experiences on these topics for disussion, among which we can mention:

• Treatment of acute myeloid leukemia in Cuban children.
• Epidemiology and initial response treatment in children leukaemia in Cuba (2006-2010).
• Promyelocytic leukaemia of recent diagnosis.  Treatment with Arsenin^®.
• Second neoplasias:  late complication in the treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma.
• Treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia in the era of tirosin kinasa inhibitors.
• New Treatment of Myelofibrosis (JAK 2 inhibitors).
• Monoclonal antibodires in the treatment of immune cytopenias.
• Bone Marrow grafting in Latin America.
• Myths and realities of the Mexican way to conduct bone marrow transplantation: 20 years later.
• Geriatric haematology.
• Policitemia vera in JAK´s era.
• Present situation of nutritional anemias in Cuba.  Control and prevention.
• State of the art of iron metabolism.
• Iron deficient anemia refractory to treatment with iron.

Much more you will have in poster presentations.

Sessions and presentations of high interest in the field of sickle cell disease (SCD) will be part of the program of this Conference, not only for the Caribbean researchers but to everyone caring for developing the utmost in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of this hereditary haematological disease.  Among others we will have sessions, symposia or specific presentations on:

–      CAREST:  A Caribbean experience and perspectives.

–      International collaboration and global issues.

–      Haiti:  international cooperation

–      Cuban comprehensive care program.

–      Thirty six years of experience in the comprehensive care of SCD at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology, Cuba.  Psychosocial attention.  SCD and pregnancy.

–      Neonatal screening programs in various countries.

–      New approaches to SCD pathophysiology

–      Abnormal cell adhesion and cell-cell interaction:  molecular trgets.

–      Hematopoietic cell transplantation

–      Blood banking; transfusion management and iron overload.

–      Complications and hemorheological parameters

–      Microparticles production

–      Hydroxiurea

–      Pain management

–      Nutritional trials

–      Social aspects of the global management

–      Hospital challenges and opportunities in the treatment of children and adults.

Papers of particular interest will also be exhibited in posters for discussion of the attendants in the spaces indicated for this purpose.

Due to the particular characteristics of the Conference among the events of the Congress, the attendants will have access to Spanish-English-Spanish simultaneous translation.

In this important part of the congress there will also be different sessions and symposias.  Among others we can mention:

–  Blood donation

–     Hemotherapy

–     Hemovigilance

–     Infections transmitted by blood transfusion.

–     Immunohematology

–     Sanitary regulation in Transfusion Medicine.

Every talk will be made by prestigious specialist from different parts of the World, including Cuba, and we can tail some of them:

1. Strategies for the recruitment of volunteer blood donors.
2. Appropriate use of blood and blood components.
3. Impact in the consumption of hemoderivatives.
4. Epidemiology of transfusions.
5. Hemovigilance and its importance in the quality and safety of transfusion.
6. Challenges for the establishment of a system of Hemovigilance in Latin America.
7. Nucleic acid testing for blood banks: An experience from a tertiary care centre in New Delhi, India.
8. Autoimmune hemolytic anemias.
9. Hemolytic disease of fetus and newborn.
10. Quality indicators in the Cuban Blood Program in 2012.

Visiting our site periodically you will find interesting news about the congress.

In this workshop where patients and relatives will attend besides the specialists on the different branches working in the diagnosis and comprehensive care of hemophilia and other coagulation disorders, there will be sessions, symposia and oral presentations on very diverse topics among which we can mention:

–     National Hemophilia Program in Cuba.

–     50 years of the World Federation of Hemophilia and national organizations.

–     Advances in the psicosocial management of patients with hemophilia:  quality of life.

–     Orthopedic disturbances in hemophilia.

–     Dental management of patients with diseases related to coagulation disorders.

–     Dental treatment in the Cuban Hemophilia center.

–     Experience in the genetic advise in hemophilia.

–     National Registry of congenital coagulopathies in Cuba.

–     von Willebrand disease.

–     Preparation for surgery of anticoagulated patient.

–     New anticoagulant agents.

–     Unfrequent coagulation disorders.

–     Thrombosis associated to different hematological entities.

–     Pregnancy and thrombosis;   cancer and thrombosis.

–     Thrombocytopenias.

–     Laboratory diagnosis in thrombophilias.

The speakers will be highly qualified specialists from Cuba and foreign countries and fruitful exchange is to take place among all participants.

There will also be papers exhibited in posters.

In this important speciality there will be sessions and symposia on:

–         Primary immunodeficiencies (PID)

–         Autoimmune diseases

–         Immunity and infectious diseases

–         Active immunotherapy in cancer.

–         Molecular biology:   use and perspectives in diagnosis and histocompatibility.

About these topics prestigious national and foreign experts will talk.  Among the most interesting ones we can mention:

1. Flow cytometry in the diagnosis of PID.
2. Role of flow cytometry in diagnostic and monitoring of Childhood  Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: state of art and future challenges
3. Primary immunodeficiencies caused by antibody defects.
4. Painful topics in autoimmune diseases:  diagnosis and therapeutic options.
5. Monoclonal antibody Itolizumab (anti-CD6), a new alternative for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.
6. Different models in the study of dengue´s infection immunology.
7. Immunopathogenesis of the infection by influenza virus.
8. Progression immunological markers in HIV infection.
9. Therapeutic vaccine CIMAvax EGF in lung and prostate of epithelial origin advanced tumors.
10. Racotumomab:  a promissing vaccine against advanced lung cancer.
11. Advances in the clinical development of a therapeutic vaccine: NGcGM3/VSSP.
12. Therapeutic vaccines against cancer:  Cuban experience.

Much more you will find in the final Immunology program, as well as in the papers to be exhibited in posters.

A prestigious enterprise, traditional cosponsor of our congresses, will also be in HEMATOLOGY´2013.

Indeed, ROCHE Products joins the selected group of distinguished sponsors and you will be able to visit their stand at the Fair that will take place simultaneously with the scientific sessions of the congress.

The Cuban Society of Immunology joins the sponsoring institutions for HEMATOLOGY´2013.

We take this opportunity to invite all specialists but particularly the ones from Latin America, to join us in the fruitful exchange of experiences that will take place during the Congress.

MORE NAMES IN THE LIST OF RELEVANT ATTENDANTS TO HEMATOLOGY´2013:

• Rodrigo de Lino Brito, consultor,  Experience in neonatal screening for SCD,BRASIL
• Rafaella Collombatti, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitá di Padova, Padova, ITALY
• DAME Marcela Contreras, Chairman of Blood Transfusion International,   UK
• Paulo Ivo Cortez, Politica Nacional de Atenção Integral às Pessoas com Doença  Falciforme, BRASIL
• Maryse Etienne-Julan, UMR-S Inserm,  Université Antilles, GUADALOUPE
• Ronald Eveillard, Centre Hospitalier de Carrefour (CHC), Port-au-Prince, HAITI
• Jean-Claude FABER, member of WHO Expert Panel in Blood Transfusion, president of the International Haemovigilance Network, president of the ALH (Luxembourgish Haemophilia Association) LUXENBOURG
• Ana Stela Goldbeck, Consultora formativa, Newborn Screening National Programme, Ministry of Health, BRASIL
• Martín Gómez, United Blood Services of El Paso, Texas, USA.
• Melanie Kirby-Allen, Co-Director Haemoglobinopathy Program Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto, CANADACaroline Le van-Kim, FRANCE
• Caroline Le Van Kim, Professeur Université Paris Diderot, Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, Paris, FRANCE
• Mercedes Mijares, Caracas Blood Bank, Hemophilia, VENEZUELA
• María Dolores Nieto Gallegos, Hemotherapy and Immunohematology, Master in Cell and Tissue Therapy, Consultant of PAHO for Blood Services and Transfusion Medicine, ECUADOR
• Cándida Queiroz, Politica Nacional de Atenção Integral às Pessoas com Doença Falciforme, BRASIL
• Marvin Reid, Director Sickle Cell Unit, Univ West Indies, Vicepresident CAREST, JAMAICA

Professionals of high level in their respective specialities from different parts of the World, among which there are academics, professors and researchers of relevant career in the different topics of the congress, will be present in HEMATOLOGY´2013. We advance some names:

– José M. Ballester, Head, National Group of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, CUBA
– Dunia Castillo, Head of the National Program of Comprehensive Care in Hemophilia, CUBA
– Alfredo Conejo Cordero, CENARE Centro Nacional de Rehabilitación, Member of the multidisciplinary group of medical care to hemophiliacs, COSTA RICA
– Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, Working on regenerative medicine, Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, BRASIL
– Norma de Bosch, BMS Metropolitan Blood Bank, Caracas, VENEZUELA
– Ernesto de la Torre, Academic, President of the National Council of Health Scientific Societies, CUBA
– Narcisse Elenga, Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne “Andrée Rosemon”, Member Executive Board CAREST, GUYANA
– Jacques Elion, Professor/Genetics/Pediatric Hematology/Sickle Cell Disease Robert Debre Mother & Child Univ Hosp, Paris, FRANCIA
– Elena Franco, Transfusion Medicine, ESPAÑA
– Giuseppe Gaita, Head, Dpto. of Citometry, Pediatric Hospital, Monza, ITALIA
– Alejandro González Otero, Head of the National Programo of Leukemia, CUBA
– Marie Dominique Hardy-Dessources, President CAREST, GUADALUPE
– Porfirio Hernández-Ramírez, Coordinator of the National Group of Regenerative Medicine, CUBA
– Lisiane Keclard-Christophe, Inserm, Member of the executive board of CAREST GUADALUPE
– Jennifer Marcelle Knight-Madden, Sickle Cell Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Member of the Executive Board of CAREST, JAMAICA
– Hans-Jochem Kolb, Kolb Consulting UG/Consultant Med. 3 TUM, ALEMANIA
– Consuelo Macías, Head of the National Immunodeficiencies Registry and of the National Group of Immunology, CUBA
– Madalena do Rosario Marques Fragoso da Silva, Clínica Multiperfil, Luanda, ANGOLA
– Giuseppe Masera, Monza Hospital, Milán, ITALIA
– Rosalía Méndes Otero, Federal University, Río de Janeiro, BRASIL
– Marc Roman, Inserm, UMR S665, Inserm/ Université des Antilles, GUYANA
– Guillermo Ruiz Argüelles, General Director, Hematology and Internal Medicine Center Clínica Ruiz, Puebla, past president ISH, exsecretary general IAD, member of AMEH, MEXICO
– Christian Saint-Martin, INSERM, Member of the Executive Board, CAREST, GUADALUPE
– Belinda Simoes, University of Sao Paulo, BRASIL
– Shimon Slavin, Professor of Medicine, Scientific & Medical Director The International Center for Cell Therapy & Cancer Immunotherapy (CTCI), Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
– Luis Sotillo, Head of the Laboratory of Genetics, Caja del Seguro Social, PANAMÁ
– Eva Svarch, Head of the National Program for Comprehensive Care of sickle cell disease patients, CUBA
– Alejandro Vernaza, Head of the laboratory of Transplant, Caja del Seguro Social, PANAMÁ
– Rinaldo Villaescusa, Member of the National Program for Comprehensive Care of sickle cell disease patients, Vicepresident CAREST, CUBA
– Gillian Wheeler, Member of the Executive Board, CAREST, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Up to the present we have known that the following organizations and companies will be at the Commercial Fair:

– Bio Cen
– Bio Lab Internacional
– CIDEM
– CIMAB, S.A., Biopharmaceutical products
– World Federation of Hemophilia
– LABIOFAM, S.A.
– Novartis
– Novo Nordisk