University Hospital Frankfurt
EBMT 2019
University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Department for Children and Adolescents, Division for Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunology focuses on excellent patient care for children and adolescents in an appropriate environment by dedicated nurses.
The Division for Stem Cell Transplantation stresses importance of having a suitable donor for all their patients and runs a successful haploidentical stem cell program. Relapse is the major cause for treatment failure after allogeneic stem cell transplantation in patients with acute leukemia the division has a program to identify and treat patients with impending relapse using MRD and chimerism analysis. Based on these findings the division runs a cellular immunotherapy program using different cell types including CART cells to treat and prevent relapse as well as Mesenchymal Stromal Cells program to treat aGVHD.