Official Master's Degree in Transfusion Medicine and Advanced Cell Therapies
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Course coordinator
Joan Garcia López
E-mail adress: Joan.Garcia.Lopez@uab.cat
Lecturers
Juan R. Grífols has a Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery by the University of Barcelona (Spain) and is specialist in Hematology and Hemotherapy. He holds other relevant titles as the Certificat d'Université d'Enseignement Européen in Transfusion Medicine by Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France) as well as a Diploma degree in Hospital Management by ESADE Business & Law School in Barcelona (Spain). Currently he is working in the Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST) as the Medical Director of one of its Transfusion Services located at the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, close to Barcelona. At the meantime, Dr. Juan R. Grífols is the BST’s International Coordinator Medical Affairs. He works as Short Time Expert in several European Commission projects in different European countries and has worked and/or led different international projects related to the implementation and development of blood organizational models and structuring transfusion networks, as well as the development of programs that encourage voluntary blood component donation and a safe, sustainable and quality transfusion.
With more than 30 years of professional experience in the fields of blood donation, transfusion of blood components, immunohematology, therapeutic apheresis and stem cell transplantation, he is the author of multiple communications and scientific articles and organizer and/or coordinator of different national or international courses or meetings. He is an active member of the Spanish Society of Blood Transfusion, the Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy, the American Association of Blood Banks and the Ibero-American Transfusion Medicine Group.
Module 2 - Blood Transfusion
E-mails: jrgrifols@bst.cat & jrgrifols@gmail.com
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery by the University of Barcelona. From 1995 to 1998 he did his training as a specialist in Immunology at the Immunology Service of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. In the same department he presented his doctoral thesis in 1999. That same year he joined the Banc de Sang i Teixits, being the head and director of the Histocompatibility Laboratory from 1999 to 2013. His activity in this laboratory was oriented to studies of histocompatibility in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and immunogenetic studies of different immune-mediated diseases. In 2013 he joined the Transplant Immunology Section of the Immunology Service of the Hospital Clínic, becoming the Head of this section in March 2016 and co-director of the laboratory accredited by the EFI (European Federation for Immunogenetics). This Transplant Immunology section constitutes the so-called Histocompatibility Laboratory of Catalonia, which provides support in Transplant Immunology to all solid organ transplantation units of hospitals in Catalonia for kidney, liver, heart, lung and pancreas transplantation. In 2014 he obtained the European Diploma of Specialization in Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics awarded by the EBTI-UEMS (European Board of Transplant Immunology - European Union of Medical Specialists), a newly created qualification aimed at the directors of histocompatibility laboratories. He has been part of the boards of directors of the Spanish Immunology Society, the Catalan Immunology Society and the Catalan Transplant Society. He was also part of the Education Committee of the EFI (European Federation for Immunogenetics). He is currently Commissioner in the Spain / Portugal region for the EFI accreditation of histocompatibility laboratories.
Module 3 - Immunohematology
E-mail: epalou@clinic.cat
Graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1980 at the University of Barcelona and Specialized in Hematology and Hemotherapy in 1985. Doctor of Medicine in 1989 from the same university. After being a resident doctor at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, he became part of the Hematology staff at the Department of Hemotherapy and Haemostasis at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. His last position was Senior Consultant in Hematology at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. He has had more than 200 publications in various indexed medical journals.
Module 1 - Blood Donation
E-mails: apereira@clinic.cat & arturopereira13@gmail.com
Sergio Querol
Haematologist, specialist in Hematopoietic Stem cell transplantation and Cell Therapy. He is Director of the Barcelona Cord Blood Bank representing Inter-regional Donation programme (Concordia). This public CB bank have available more than 20,000 units through Spanish Donor Registry and performed close to 2,000 cord blood transplants. He is also Director of the Cell Therapy Services at the Catalan Blood and Tissue bank. This is a FACT-Netcord and JACIE accredited laboratory and has in addition facilities to manufacture advanced therapy medicinal products like CAR-T cells, TILs or MSC. Cell therapy laboratory is a central facility for most of the Clinical sites in Barcelona area performing transplantation and cell therapy application with more than 500 procedures conducted per year. Research areas are developing new uses of CB units either collected or frozen as starting material for ATMP, improving cord blood transplantation, or developing volunteer-donor derived ATMP like virus-specific T cells, MSC and iPSC haplo-bank from cord blood. He is author of more than 100 papers in peer review journals.
Module 4: Cell and Tissue Therapy. Tissue Bank
E-mail: squerol@bst.cat
PhD in Biology by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). She developed her research in hepatitis C and HIV in the Liver Unit of the University Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona. Since 1999 she is responsible of the Transfusion Safety Laboratory of the regional Blood and Tissue Bank of Catalonia (Spain). Besides the screening of infectious diseases activities, the Laboratory has a research line on biosafety of blood, tissue and cell donations. Sauleda has published more than 80 research papers on hepatitis C, hepatitis B, HIV and emerging infectious diseases. She is a member of the ISBT (International Society of Blood Transfusion) Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases Working Party and, since 2017, coordinates the Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases Working Party of the Spanish Society of Blood Transfusion.
Module 1 - Blood Donation
E-mail: ssauleda@bst.cat
Biochemist, MSci in Biotechnology and PhD in Biochemistry (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) with extensive experience in the R&D biotech sector, both in private and academic environments, where he focused on the optimisation of cellular processes towards A) high yield production of diagnostic and therapeutic molecules, and B) the development of methods to produce cells for drug screening and as a therapy, in compliance with current regulatory and quality standards. Dr. Vives conducted post-doctoral research at the Institute for Stem Cell Research (University of Edinburgh, UK), then moved to Stem Cell Sciences Ltd (Cambridge, UK), and joined Banc de Sang i Teixits (Barcelona, Spain).
He has authored 50+ scientific publications, supervised 8 PhD projects and he is inventor of three patents.
Module 4: Cell and Tissue Therapy. Tissue Bank
E-mail: jvives@bst.cat
Jaap Jan Zwaginga
M.D. in Medicine and PhD in Pathogenesis of Uremic bleeding in 1989. His research on clinical transfusion medicine involves: a) the classical use of red blood cells, trombocytes and plasma, but also b) the “academic hospital reserved areas” of immuno-modulatory and regenerative therapies with manipulated blood, marrow or tissue-derived cells. His teaching activities started in 2007 to the present, which is the LUMC Director of Education at the joint Master’s Degree in Transfusion Medicine and Cellular and Tissue Therapies. He has 204 publications and 2 book chaptes at the Web of Science. The average citations per item is 22,7.
Module 4:Tissue Therapy. Tissue Bank
E-mail: j.j.zwaginga@lumc.nl
Masja De Haas (MD, PhD) is an internationally recognized expert in the highly specialized field of transfusion medicine of laboratory immunohematology. The past 10 years, she has led the Dutch reference center for immunohematology Sanquin. It's an organization for blood supply and its knowledge. She is an appointed professor of “Translational Immunohematology” at the Leiden University Medical Center.
Module 3 - Immunohematology
E-mail: m.dehaas@sanquin.nl