The StemNet conference took place in the MUSME, the Museum of History of Medicine in Padua, Italy from the 22nd to the 24th of September 2021. During the ‘Cell-free Therapy’ session on September 24th, Prof. Dr Bernd Giebel of the University Hospital Essen facilitated a talk entitled: Functional heterogeneity of cellular and extracellular vesicle-based therapeutics: implications for the development of potency assays. Dr Elisabetta Palamà of UNIGE presented at the international conference, as well. Her talk was titled “Clinical grade mesenchymal stromal cells-derived extracellular vesicles promote human cartilage recovery in vitro.”
The meeting was co-sponsored by the Gruppo di Italiani Staminali Mesenchimali, GISM.