Written by William Foster
Edited by Judith Secklehner
On Monday the 15th of February the NHLI welcomed Dr Simón Méndez-Ferrer for a lunchtime seminar. Dr Méndez-Ferrer has recently moved from Madrid to Cambridge, where he has established a group in the Haematology department. Dr Méndez-Ferrer studies the multisystem regulation of the haematopoietic stem cell niche and his work has clinical implications for bone marrow transplantation procedures, as well as insight into specific forms of leukaemia. In Simón’s talk he discussed haematopoietic stem cell trafficking; paying attention to the importance of microenvironments; with focus on the importance of neural signal modulation within the bone marrow and how Mesenchymal Stem cells(MSCs) regulate inflammatory cell trafficking.