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Food and Drug Administration

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Meeting #37, March 18-19, 2004

Hilton Hotel, Silver Spring, Maryland

 

AGENDA

 

Thursday, March 18, 2004

8:30 a.m.                     Call to Order/Introduction of Committee

                                                            Mahendra Rao, M.D., Ph.D., Chair

 

8:40                             Conflict of Interest Statement

                                                            Gail Dapolito, Executive Secretary

 

8:45                             FDA Opening Remarks

                        Presentation of Certificates of Appreciation to Retiring Members

Philip Noguchi, M.D., Director

                                                            Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies

                                                            Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA

 

Jesse Goodman, M.D., M.P.H., Director

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), FDA

 

                        Open Committee Discussion – Cellular Therapies for Cardiac Disease

9:00                             FDA Perspective – Clinical Experience

Dwaine Rieves, M.D., Chief

Clinical Evaluation Branch

Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies, CBER

           

                                    Guest Presentations

9:25                                                     Emerson Perin, M.D., F.A.C.C., Director

                                                            New Cardiovascular Interventional Technology

                                                            Texas Heart Institute

9:55                                         Q&A  

 

10:05                           Break

 

10:20 a.m.                               Clinical Experience of Autologous Myoblast Transplantation                                                             Philippe Menasché, M.D., Professor                                                                                                          Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

                                                            University of Paris

10:50 a.m.                               Q&A              


                        Food and Drug Administration

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Meeting #37, March 18-19, 2004

 

AGENDA

 

Thursday, March 18, 2004

                        Open Committee Discussion – Cellular Therapies for Cardiac Disease

11:00 a.m.                                           Steven Epstein, M.D., Executive Director  

                                                            Cardiovascular Research Institute

                                                            Washington Hospital Center

11:30                                       Q&A             

         

11:40                           Lunch

           

12:40 p.m.                   FDA Perspective – Preclinical Experience

                                                            Richard McFarland, Ph.D., M.D., Medical Officer

                                                            Pharmacology/Toxicology Branch

                                                            Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies, CBER

 

                                    Guest Presentations

1:00                                         Myoblasts:  The First Generation Cells for Cardiac Repair -

 What Have We Learned?

                                                            Doris Taylor, Ph.D., Professor

                                                            Department of Physiology

                                                            University of Minnesota

1:30                                         Q&A                                                               

 

1:40                                                     Silviu Itescu, M.B.B.S., Assistant Professor

                                                            Division of Surgical Science

                                                            Columbia University Medical Center

2:10                                         Q&A                 

 

2:20                                         From Mouse to Man:  Is it a Logical Step for Cardiac Repair?

                                                            Doris Taylor, Ph.D.

                                                            University of Minnesota

2:50                                         Q&A

 

3:00                             Break              

 

3:15                                         Overview - Cardiac Catheters

                                                            Donald Nick Jensen, D.V.M., MSEE

Electrical Engineer

                                                            Office of Device Evaluation

                                                            Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA

3:35 p.m.                                 Q&A    

 

 

 

Food and Drug Administration

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Meeting #37, March 18-19, 2004

 

AGENDA

 

Thursday, March 18, 2004

 

                        Open Committee Discussion – Cellular Therapies for Cardiac Disease

3:45 p.m.                                 Preclinical Cardiac Catheter Models

            Robert Lederman, M.D., Investigator

                                                            Cardiovascular Branch

                                                            National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH

4:05                                         Q&A

 

4:15                             Open Public Hearing 

 

4:45 p.m.                     Adjourn