Ashley Krull, Ph.D. Associate Director W.W. Williams Cellular Therapy Laboratory The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA One week ago, a new manuscript re-introduced the concept of CAR-MSCs and piqued the interest of immunologists and cell biologists afresh. The report,...
Adaeze Ekwe, PhD Junior Associate Editor ISCT ESP Leadership Development Program From the laboratories to the clinics and boardrooms, women have been integral to the progress made in cell and gene therapy. As such for this Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day we...
Wouter Van’t Hof, Contributing Editor Cleveland Cord Blood Center Cleveland OH, USA What’s in Your CGT Product? The shared responsibility of all of us cell and gene therapy developers involved with ISCT and with the ambition of bringing cell-based therapies to...
Janet Macpherson, PhD Cytiva Sydney, Australia Your Telegraft editorial team are dedicating this first issue of 2024 to a reflection of 2023 content and highlights. Please do take the opportunity to catch up on articles that you may have missed during the busy year that...
by Joaquim Vives, PhD Contributing editor Banc de Sang i Teixits Barcelona, Spain We are scientists a nd one thing scientists do is share the results of their research in international scientific meetings. In September 2018, my wife planned to...
Ashley Krull, Ph.D. Associate Director, Cell Therapy Manufacturing and Engineering The James Comprehensive Cancer Center Cellular Therapy Laboratory Assistant Professor, Hematology The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, United States When I starting exploring the idea of psychological...
by Dr. Adaeze Ekwe, PhD Junior Associate Editor ISCT ESP Leadership Development Program Arguably one of the most anticipated awards in the scientific community is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Katalin Karikó PhD and Dr. Drew Weissman PHD were decorated with...
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...