Spec Cert (SCTS) - What can I expect to learn?
Topics covered by this programme include:
- The different types and uses of stem cell transplantation in malignant and non-malignant conditions.
- How different stem cell products including cord blood are collected for therapeutic use, stem cell mobilisation.
- The benefits and complications of stem cell transplantation.
- Donor selection including tissue typing for allogeneic transplantation, how they are matched to patients.
- The function and characteristics of different types of stem cells including embryonic stem cells, mesenchymal stromal cells.
- The testing of donors and stem cell products, different techniques for analysing the composition and quality of the products.
- Cleanroom practice and the use of aseptic techniques, the design and standards of cleanrooms.
- The regulation and licencing requirements in stem cell banking.
- The different processing techniques available for stem cells for transplantation, how they work, when they are used.
- The cryopreservation of stem cell products and the requirements for cryogenic facilities, how cryopreservation works, the transportation and storage of frozen products.
- The transfusion requirements for transplant patients, which blood components to use, what are the indications and complications.
Course Curriculum
