4th International Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapies
(SPCE-TC) - April 29-30, 2009 – Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa.

Official Website: http://www.ibb.pt/scbl/SPCETC.html

Dear colleagues

We are proud to announce the 4th International Meeting of SPCE-TC 2009 - Novel Frontiers in Stem Cell Research - to be held at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, April 29-30, 2009.

The main topics of this meeting will be:

 Stem Cells and Development
 Stem Cell Transplantation
 Bioprocessing of Stem Cells
 Stem Cell-Based Tissue Engineering

Plenary lectures will be given by the following renowned scientists:

*Eliane Gluckman*
Department of Hematology, Hôpital St. Louis, France

*Peter W. Zandstra*
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

*Jonathan Dordick*
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

*Manuel Abecasis*
IPO Francisco Gentil, Lisboa, Portugal



More information can be found in: http://www.ibb.pt/scbl/SPCETC.html


Looking forward to seeing you in Lisboa,


Joaquim Sampaio Cabral & Cláudia Lobato da Silva

Meeting Chairs
IBB -- CEBQ, IST, Lisboa, Portugal