Committees

Gastro-Intestinal Committee

Aims & Scope

The Gastrointestinal Committee strives to:

  • Assist in the planning of the annual meeting scientific program and the review of submitted abstracts in the field of digestive diseases
  • Review the status of CGT and regenerative medicine for digestive diseases and foster international discussion about controversies in this field
  • Publish position papers and engage scientific discourse as necessary to advance the field
  • Increase the awareness of CGT and regenerative medicine for digestive diseases, mostly in young investigators

Featured Video




The American Society of Transplantation (AST) and the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) are coming together to launch a new webinar series called:

Joining Forces to Shape Our Mutual Future

The immediate short-term goal of the webinars is to establish a collaboration between the two societies, who are leaders in their respective fields of transplants and regenerative medicine.
 
The medium-term goal of the webinars is to prepare the ground to a new conference series, the World Conferences of Transplant and Regenerative Medicine that will be launched once we will have left the COVID pandemic behind us.
 
The long-term goal of the webinars (and of the new conference series) is to bring together experts from both fields on the same stage for the first time, in order to share knowledge and ultimately foster progress in organ bioengineering, regeneration and repair which will shape and define the future of both worlds.
 
The webinars will be held quarterly and will consist of a 1-hour session, featuring two speakers, one proposed by each society. In 2021, access to webinars will not be restricted in order to stimulate interest and promote the event beyond the two societies.
 
Our ISCT GI Committee endorses this AST and TERMIS endeavor and embraces this vision.

Letter from the ISCT Gastrointestinal Committee

Dr. Rachele Ciccocioppo and Dr. Giuseppe Orlando have penned a letter, on the behalf of the ISCT Gastrointestinal Committee, to further encourage the inclusion of cell and gene therapy discussions and education in the gastrointestinal field in light of recent developments. ISCT members are kindly asked to please share this letter with their colleagues in the gastrointestinal field.

View the letter.

Report of the last European Crohn’s & Colitis Organisation Congress: growing attention on organoids as disease modelling in inflammatory bowel disease.

One of the ISCT Gastrointestinal Committee's main objectives is to increase awareness of cell and gene therapies in the field of the digestive system, and to promote the safe and effective use of these medicinal therapies worldwide. To help achieve these goals, the Committee conducts regular literature reviews, selects novel research to be featured alongside critical analyses developed by Committee members, and drafts reports on important events in the field.

View the report.

ISCT Position on Diversity and Inclusiveness

International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy Releases Position Statement on Diversity and Inclusiveness. View the full statement.

ISCT, alongside ASTCT, CIBMTR, EBMT, and FACT, issue a joint statement against racism. View the joint statement.

Committee Publications

Bioengineering of the digestive tract: approaching the clinic (Cytotherapy. 2021 May; 23(5): 381-389)

Perspective of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy Gastrointestinal Scientific Committee on Intravenous Use of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PeMeGi). (Cytotherapy. 2019 August; 21(8): 824-839)

Proceedings of the signature series event of the International Society for Cellular Therapy: "Advancements in cellular therapies and regenerative medicine in digestive diseases," London, United Kingdom, May 3, 2017. (Cytotherapy 2019 March; 20(3): 461-476.)

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The Committee

Co-Chair

Damián García-Olmo, MD, PhD
August 2022 - Present

Jimenez Diaz Foundation University Hospital
Madrid, Spain

Co-Chair

Vincenzo Cardinale, MD, PhD
August 2022 - Present

Sapienza University of Rome
Rome, Italy

Members

Rachele Ciccocioppo, MD
University of Verona
Verona, Italy

Gianluca Carnevale, PhD
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Modena, Italy
ESP Leadership Development Program

Shuji Terai, MD, PhD
Niigata University
Niigata Japan

Amish Asthana, PhD
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Winston-Salem, United States

Giuseppe Orlando, MD, PhD
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, United States

Eleuterio Lombardo, PhD
Takeda Madrid, Cell Therapy Technology Center
Madrid, Spain

Basak Uygun, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Boston, United States

Hongjun Wang, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, United States

Adriana Migliorini, PhD
University Health Network
Toronto, Canada