7th Conference

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P1
CELL SORTING, CLONAL ANALYSIS AND SPHERE-FORMATION IDENTIFY CELLS WITH PROGENITOR POTENTIAL IN THE ADULT HUMAN KIDNEY
Ella Buzhor, O Harari-Steinberg, D Omer, S Metsuyanim, N Pode-Shakked, O Pleniceanu, Z Dotan, B Dekel, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

P2
CELL POLYMER ENCAPSULATION AS A NEW DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR INSULIN PRODUCING STEM CELLS
Deborah Chaimov, I Meivar-Levy, S Ferber, M Machluf, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

P3
ENGINEERED PSEUDOTYPED LENTIVIRUS MEDIATE SPECIFIC GENE TARGETING VIA A SINGLE CHAIN VARIABLE FRAGMENT DISPLAYED ON THEIR SURFACE
Michael Fassler, R Taube, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

P4
MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION AND DIFFERENTIATION AUGMENT IMMUNOTHERAPY OF ESTABLISHED MOUSE LUNG TUMORS
Zvi Fridlender, A Jassar, V Kapoor, G Xheng, J Sun, SM Albelda, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

P5
ULTRASOUND GENE DELIVERY TO MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FOR TUMOR THERAPY
Tom Haber, M Machluf, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

P6
DIRECTED DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS INTO FUNCTIONAL RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM CELLS
Maria Idelson, R Alper, A Obolensky, E Ben-Shushan, I Hemo, N Yachimovich-Cohen, H Khaner, Y Smith, O Wiser, M Gropp, MA Cohen, S Even-Ram, Y Berman-Zaken, L Matzrafi, G Rechavi, E Banin, B Reubinoff, Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel

P7
MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS PROMOTE THE PROLIFERATION AND MATURATION OFNEURAL STEM CELLS IN THE SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE
Inna Kan, Y Barhum, T Ben-Zur, E Melamed, D Offen, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel

P8
PILOT PHASE I/II CLINICAL TRIAL WITH AUTOLOGOUS MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
Ibrahim Kassis , D Karussis, C Karageorgiou, B Gowda-Kurkalli, A Vaknin-Dembinsky, JM Gomori, 5J Bulte, P Petrou, T Ben-Hur, S Slavin, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

P9
INHIBITION OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS REPLICATION BY A DOMINANT NEGATIVE MUTANT OF CYCLIN T1 IN CELL LINES
Alona Kuzmina, K Fujinaga, R Taube, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel,

P10
DIRECT REPROGRAMMING OF HUMAN SKIN KERATINOCYTES INTO INSULIN PRODUCING CELLS
Naomi Litichever, M. Mauda-Havakuk, O Nakar, N Nakash, M Granot, R Mazkereth, S Ferber, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel and Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat Gan,  Israel

P11
TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPY USING CHIMERIC RECEPTOR REDIRECTED ALLOGENEIC T CELLS ACROSS MHC BARRIERS
Asaf Marcus, T Waks, Z Eshhar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

P12
EXPRESSION OF STEM CELL MARKERS IN THE HUMAN FETAL KIDNEY
Sally Metsuyanim, O Harari-Steinberg, E Buzhor, D Omer, N Pode-Shakked, H Ben-Hur, R Halperin, D Schneider, B Dekel, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel and Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat Gan,  Israel

P13
APOPTOTIC AND TROPHIC FUNCTIONS OF TRAIL IN HUMAN UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD
Keren Mizrahi, J Stein, O Kaplan, I Yaniv, N Askenasy, Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel

P14
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LIVER CELL POPULATION PREDISPOSED TO PDX1- INDUCED REPROGRAMMING ALONG INSULIN PRODUCING CELLS
Kfir Molakandov, M Elgart, F Gaunitz, S Ferber, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel and Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat- Gan,  Israel

P15
RE-ACTIVATION OF DORMANT RENAL STEM/PROGENITOR GENES IN SOMATIC HUMAN KIDNEY CELLS VIA TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPROGRAMMING AND WNT PATHWAY MODULATION
Dorit Omer, O Harari-Steinberg, E Buzhor, S Metsuyanim, N Pode-Shakked, A Zundelevich, E Gal-Yam, B Dekel, Tel-Aviv University, Tel- Aviv, Israel and Sheba Medical Center and Tel-Hashomer, Ramat- Gan,  Israel

P16
LENTIVIRAL DELIVERY OF ANTI-PDES SHRNA INTO ACTIVATED MICROGLIA CELLS TO PREVENT THE SECONDARY DAMAGE AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY
Leopold Puzis, University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA

P17
MANNOSYLATED BLOCK COPOLYMER MICELLES FOR TARGETING GENES INTO ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS
Lior Raviv, A David, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

P18
HUMAN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS SECRETING MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS ATTENUATE QUINOLINIC ACID INDUCED STRIATAL LESION - A MODEL OF HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE
Ofer Sadan, Y Barhum,  N Shemesh, Y Cohen, D Offen, E Melamed, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

P19
INDUCED NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS SECRETING MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS ARE BENEFICIAL IN ANIMAL MODELS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Ofer Sadan, Y Barhum,  N Shemesh, Y Cohen, D Offen, E Melamed,
 Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  

P20
ADULT BONE MARROW-DERIVED STEM CELLS INCORPORATE IN THE DEVELOPING RETINA
Tamilla Sadikov, BR Avaraham-Lubin, N Askenasy, N Goldenberg-Cohen, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel

P21
AUTOLOGOUS MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS AND PLATELET RICH PLASMA AUGMENTATION FOR DISTAL TIBIAL FRACTURES - A HUMAN IN VIVO STUDY
Josh Schroeder, R Moshieff, SAGazit, Y Zilberman, L Rasooly, A Khoury, Y Weil, A Daskal, M Liebergall, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

P22
STUDYING THE DIFFERENTIATION OF PANCREATIC BETA-CELLS USING HIGH-THROUGHPUT PROTEOMIC APPROACHES
Revital Sharivkin, MD Walker, Y Soen, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

P23
IN-VIVO SELECTION OF CD4+ T CELLS TRANSDUCED WITH A GAMMA-RETROVIRAL VECTOR EXPRESSING A SINGLE-CHAIN INTRABODY DIRECTED AGAINST HIV-1 TAT
Ran Taube, SE Braun, Q Zhu, F Eng Wong, A Murakami, E Kamau, 1M Dwyer, A Carville, RP Johnson, WA Marasco, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba, Israel

P24
VIRAL NEUROTROPISM AND MECHANISMS OF VIRAL SPREAD IN THE CNS
Yael Tsalenchuck, E Braun, I Steiner, A Panet, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

P25
PLATELET –TYPE 12-LIPOXYGENASE KNOCKDOWN USING GUTLESS AAV VECTORS CAN INDUCE APOPTOSIS IN HUMAN VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS IN VITRO
Gary Weisinger, R Limor, H Karman, E Knoll, A Many, N Stern, Tel- Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

P26    
PLACENTAL MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS DIFFERENTIATED INTO NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR PRODUCING CELLS PROTECT NEURONAL CELLS FROM HYPOXIA AND OXIDATIVE STRESS
Shlomit Yust-Katz, Y Fisher-Soval, Y Barhum, T Ben-Zur, R Barzilay, N Lev, E Melamed, I Stiener, D Offen,  Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel and Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel

P27
DERIVATION AND USE OF THE HEMATOPOIETIC HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6 (HHV-6) AMPLICON VECTORS FOR GENE THERAPY AND VACCINATION
Haim Zeigerman, R Borenstein, A Moseri, N Frenkel, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

P28
FEMTOSECOND LASER ASSISTED GENE DELIVERY TO THE RETINA
Evelyne Zeira ,Z Manevitch, C Levi, L Levin, Z Bromberg, R Alper, A Obolensky, E Banin, E Galun, A Lewis, I Hemo, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

P29
THE POTENTIAL USE OF MESENCHYMAL PROGENITOR CELLS FROM ADIPOSE TISSUE FOR CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
Eti Zigman-Hoffman, R Eshel, A Faragy, G Senior,  E Gur, B Meilik,  E Naparstek, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv,  Israel

P30
CARDIOMYOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS
Limor Zwi, O Caspi, G Arbel, I Huber, A Gepstein, L Gepstein, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel