t is our great pleasure to announce the ABCD Meeting on Stem Cells, Development and Regenerative Medicine, to be held in Salerno on 6-7 June 2014.

Since 1998 the “Cells as Protein Factories” or “ER & Redox Club” meetings have been organized in Europe on a (bi-)annual basis, providing a platform for researchers of redox function, protein folding and ER homeostasis to interact and to foster collaborations.

he initial step of the vesicular trafficking is vesicle budding from the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) that is fundamental for the structural and functional maintenance of post ER compartments and for the secretion of extracellular factors like hormones or extracellular matrix components.

Il 29 Marzo 2014 a Lugano, presso l'auditorium dell’Università Italo-Svizzera (USI) si terrà un Workshop, organizzato dalla fondazione IBSA e Antonio Musarò (membro del direttivo ABCD), su cellule staminali dal titolo: "Stem cell therapy: hype or hope?"