Camillo Almici

The primary task of our laboratory is to support the BMT program at the ASST Spedali Civili in Brescia. We are in charge of the manipulation and cryopreservation of hematopoietic progenitor cell units from patients and from HLA-matched familiar or unrelated donors in the allogeneic setting. Besides our routine clinical duties, our research activity concerns mesenchymal stromal cells expansion from different sources, and more recently, our efforts have focused on the role of circulating endothelial cells (CEC) in allo-transplantation. By using different CEC identification and counting procedures, we have been involved in studying the possible correlations of CEC count changes with the endothelial complications of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells transplantation.