Committee presented its workshop entitled, ‘Nonhematopoietic Mesenchymal Stem Cells: What are they?’ on June 17, 2000. The session was co-chaired by Drs E Horwitz and A Keating, and featured a distinguished panel of experts, Dr P Charbord of INSERM (France), Dr O Koc of Case Western Reserve University (USA), and Dr P Simmons of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute (Australia). Dr Horwitz welcomed the 250 attendees by describing the lack of a consensus among leaders in the field on some of the most fundamental questions, including the basic definition of the mesenchymal stem cell. This question then formed the focus of the workshop. Next, Dr Keating posed the three specific questions to be addressed by participants:

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非造血间充质干细胞：它们是什么？

委员会介绍了题为“非造血间充质干细胞：它们是什么？”的研讨会。2000 年 6 月 17 日。会议由 E Horwitz 博士和 A Keating 博士共同主持，并邀请了杰出的专家小组，INSERM（法国）的 P Charbord 博士、凯斯西储大学（美国）的 O Koc 博士和Peter MacCallum 癌症研究所（澳大利亚）的 P Simmons 博士。Horwitz 博士对 250 名与会者表示欢迎，他描述了该领域的领导者在一些最基本的问题上缺乏共识，包括间充质干细胞的基本定义。这个问题随后成为研讨会的重点。接下来，基廷博士提出了三个具体问题供参与者解决：