A cycle of seminars to discuss the principles, methods and limitations of cellular reprogramming to obtain iPSCs, induced pluripotent stem cells, obtained in the laboratory by introducing specific genes into adult cells.
During the seminars some examples of the application of induced pluripotent stem cells will be provided as a therapeutic and study tool; they will also introduce participants to the rules governing the transfer of iPSCs from the laboratory to the clinic.
iPSCs constitute the greatest technological innovation of recent decades, as evidenced by the Nobel Prize awarded in 2012 to Shinya Yamanaka for their discovery, and represent a revolution in the personalized approach to the treatment of currently incurable pathologies and to the study of specific drugs for individual patients.
The seminars will be held by prof. Jancarlo Forte, Director of the Center for Translational Medicine (CTM) of the International Clinical Research Center (ICRC) in Brno (Czech Republic) and Adjunct Professor of Cell Biology and Biomaterials at the University of Turku (Finland).
