At the 10th Anniversary of CHI's Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Conference, We Bring Together for the First Time All of the Laboratories Developing Diagnostic Blood Tests for a Head-to-Head Comparison of Their Methodologies and Achievements.

NEWTON, Mass. -- Cambridge Healthtech Institute's 10th International TSE conference will be held March 7-9, 2006 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. This premier TSE event (http://www.healthtech.com/2006/tse/index.asp) is the definitive American TSE meeting, where important topics offering expanded discussion about protein misfolding, reviews of BSE, vCJD, and CWD, updated tissue infectivity data, new methods of decontamination in hospitals and industry, filter technology for removing infectivity from blood, strategies being explored for therapeutic intervention, and a concluding panel on issues of FDA and USDA regulation.

This in-depth conference will also be partnered with CHI's 10th International Blood Product Safety (http://www.healthtech.com/2006/bss/index.asp) and 2nd International Protein Folding Disorders (http://www.healthtech.com/2006/pfd/index.asp) conferences allowing people register for one, two, or all three programs. Presentations from the American Red Cross, NIH, CDC, USDA, FDA, Baxter, Bayer and others will be featured.

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