Share the Science: Dr. Ngaire Elwood - Renaissance of Public Cord Blood Banks

Save the Cord Foundation and WellSky are proud to welcome Dr. Ngaire Elwood, as our featured speaker for our next edition of Share the Science on May 3rd, 2021 4pm EDT (April 29th, 6am AEDT). Join us to hear Dr. Elwood discuss the renaissance of public cord blood banks.  In particular, Dr. Elwood will highlight several of the new developments in cord blood banking which promise to increase cord blood usage in the future.  
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Share the Science is a free webinar series focused on the cord blood industry and the latest research in this field.  As always, we invite both health professionals and the general public to join us for this unique online educational series. Learn more about this exciting educational series here.

Increase cord blood usage

During this exciting webinar, Dr. Ngaire Elwood will introduce us to the many recent breakthroughs in cord blood banking that will lead to the potential increased usage of cord blood units in the future. Discover the true potential of cord blood and public cord blood banks. ​Cord blood remains an important source for haematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT), especially as we continue to navigate the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Yet HSTCs may be just the tip of the iceberg of the role cord blood will play in future cell therapies.

Join Dr. Ngaire Elwood as she shares her research and discusses how to: 

• Assist transplant centers in the selection and use of cord blood for HSCT
• Support increased use of cord blood for non-HSCT treatments
• Create clinical-grade induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSCs) from banked cord blood for potential regenerative therapies

​The expanded use of cord blood will create new opportunities and a “renaissance” for public cord banks.

Register now to watch the recording and learn how new research into cord blood is adding to the potential of cell therapy.

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SHARE THE SCIENCE
with

Ngaire Elwood, PhD

Associate Professor, Murdoch Children's Research Institute - Director of the BMDI Cord Blood Bank
 
"The Renaissance of Public Cord Blood Banks"

Free webinar.  Open to the public.
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Thursday, May 3rd at 4 pm EDT / 1 pm PT

RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE

Watch the Recording: Dr. Ngaire Elwood - The Renaissance of Public Cord Blood Banks

About the speaker

Dr. Ngaire Elwood completed an honours degree in Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne in 1986. She undertook a Masters in Immunology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories / Kings College in London prior to completing her PhD in the Cancer Unit at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne. Following postdoctoral positions at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and then at Duke University Medical Centre, USA, she returned to Melbourne to the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in 2001 to establish the Leukaemia/Stem Cell Research Lab in the Children's Cancer Centre.

In February 2007, Dr Elwood became the Director of the BMDI Cord Blood Bank (CBB), one of three public cord blood banks in Australia, which together form the AusCord network. As Director of the CBB, Chair of AusCord (2009 to 2014), appointments on a diverse range of executive committees and an international inspector for the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT), Dr. Elwood's skills include strategic planning, governance, change management, policy development, cell therapy manufacturing, regulatory affairs and liaison with stakeholders.

Dr. Elwood is a member of the international FACT Board and sits on several FACT committees, including the FACT Cord Blood Standards Steering Committee. She heads the Cord Blood Stem Cell Research Group at Murdoch Childrens and has more than 25 years' research experience in the field of cellular therapy, haematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow transplantation, translational research, cord blood and leukaemia. (Source: ​www.mcri.edu.au/users/dr-ngaire-elwood )

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We wish to thank Dr. Ngaire Elwood for volunteering her time to speak on
Share the Science and sharing her valuable insight
on public cord blood banks.
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We also wish to also thank our generous sponsor and partner for this event,
WellSky Health, who continue to support cord blood
education through our “Share the Science” series.