I’ve been dreaming a lot lately about a fictional world where the academic biomedical center and the biotechnology-pharmaceutical complex are one and the same. In this world, there are no more tenured professors or grant applications or surrendering your principles to predatory publishers....
Rounak Dubey, MBBS, MD Assistant Professor, Transfusion Medicine All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" - H.P. Lovecraft The...
Janet Macpherson, PhD Senior Editor Australia This year I was disappointed not to be attending the ISCT Annual Meeting in the beautiful city of Paris, where we had planned to convene in 2020 but successfully pivoted to a virtual meeting. The return to Paris in person was much...
Shyam Bhakta, MD, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI Cardiovascular Interdisciplinary Program and Working Group, National Center for Regenerative Medicine, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio USA Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States,...
Joaquim Vives, PhD, Contributing Editor Banc de Sang i Teixits Barcelona, Spain The field of cell and gene therapy (CGT) has witnessed a surge in innovative products that hold immense promise for treating a wide range of diseases, with CAR-T cell technology the current flagship of successful...
Wouter Van’t Hof, PhD Contributing Editor Cleveland Cord Blood Center, USA The first letter in the ISCT acronym stands for International . (If you didn’t know this, you are hereby admonished and instructed to read this editorial in full). At ISCT, five Regional Executive...
by Michele Sugrue MS, MT(ASCP)SBB Remaining open-minded and maintaining objectivity are goals to which I strive in both my personal and professional life. During a heated political discussions at a family gathering or while reviewing a manuscript for publication, preconceptions,...
by Russell Y. Cruz, MD, PhD Senior Editor, Telegraft ChatGPT OpenAI Language Model In case you are among the few who haven’t spoken to ChatGPT yet, you’re in for a treat. Signing up here lets you check the features of this chatbot; see for yourself why people are...
Ashley Krull, Ph.D. Associate Director, Cell Therapy Manufacturing and Engineering James Cancer Hospital Cellular Therapy Laboratory Assistant Professor, Hematology The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, United States Article On behalf of myself and the editors of Telegraft , I...
by Janet Macpherson Senior Editor, PhD As we approach year-end, I imagine that you, like me, are seeing emails asking you to renew your membership for various societies. Societies that you joined, or perhaps gained membership when you registered to attend their annual meeting. ...