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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