TY - JOUR A1 - Deola, Sara A1 - Guerrouahen, Bella S. A1 - Sidahmed, Heba A1 - Al‑Mohannadi, Anjud A1 - Elnaggar, Muhammad A1 - Elsadig, Ramaz A1 - Abdelalim, Essam M. A1 - Petrovski, Goran A1 - Gadina, Massimo A1 - Thrasher, Adrian A1 - Wels, Winfried A1 - Hunger, Stephen P. A1 - Wang, Ena A1 - Marincola, Francesco M. A1 - Maccalli, Cristina A1 - Cugno, Chiara T1 - Tailoring cells for clinical needs : meeting report from the advanced therapy in healthcare symposium (October 28–29 2017, Doha, Qatar) T2 - Journal of translational medicine N2 - New technologies and therapies designed to facilitate development of personalized treatments are rapidly emerging in the field of biomedicine. Strikingly, the goal of personalized medicine refined the concept of therapy by developing cell-based therapies, the so-called “living drugs”. Breakthrough advancements were achieved in this regard in the fields of gene therapy, cell therapy, tissue-engineered products and advanced therapeutic techniques. The Advanced Therapies in Healthcare symposium, organized by the Clinical Research Center Department of Sidra Medicine, in Doha, Qatar (October 2017), brought together world-renowned experts from the fields of oncology, hematology, immunology, inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and stem cells to offer a comprehensive picture of the status of worldwide advanced therapies in both pre-clinical and clinical development, providing insights to the research phase, clinical data and regulatory aspects of these therapies. Highlights of the meeting are provided in this meeting report. KW - Personalized medicine KW - Cell therapy KW - Gene therapy KW - Stem cells KW - Autoimmunity KW - Oncology KW - Hematology KW - Preclinical KW - Clinical trials Y1 - 2018 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47695 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-476953 SN - 1479-5876 N1 - Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. VL - 16 IS - 1, Art. 276 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - BioMed Central CY - London ER -