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Day 6 (October 22) - Americas / Europe / Africa

Tuesday, Oct 22 - 9:00 AM (Local time in Montreal) | Local time (Your local time)
Exogenic Organs: Going Beyond Xenotransplantation
Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Japan
Tuesday, Oct 22 - 9:40 AM (Local time in Montreal) | Local time (Your local time)
Virtual Thematic: Breaking barriers in xenotransplantation
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  • Jayme Locke, United States
    The Parsons Model - ethical implications of research involving those determined dead by neurological criteria
  • Prof. Muhammad Mohiuddin, United States
    Breaking barriers in Xenotransplantation
  • Daniel J. Hurst, United States
    Summary of the Religious perspectives regarding ethical issues with clinical xenotransplantation
Virtual Thematic: Preservation and Perfusion
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Prof. John J. J Fung, United States
Portable hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion for organ preservation in liver transplantation: A randomized, open-label, clinical trial
Dr. Yitian Fang, Netherlands
A simple scoring system during normothermic machine perfusion may salvage kidneys initially declined for transplantation
Jasper Iske, Germany
Pushing the boundaries of innovation: the potential of ex vivo organ perfusion from an interdisciplinary point of view
Virtual Thematic: BANFF 2024 Summary
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Michael Mengel, Canada
Introduction
Maarten Naesens, Belgium
Kidney
Jackie O'Leary, United States
Liver
Surya V. Seshan, United States
Pancreas
Tuesday, Oct 22 - 11:00 AM (Local time in Montreal) | Local time (Your local time)
Abstracts: Kidney 2
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Andrew Bomback, United States
Efficacy of 12-week pegcetacoplan in kidney transplant recipients with recurrent C3 glomerulopathy (C3G) or immune complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (IC-MPGN)
Pooja Budhiraja, United States
Comparison of survival advantage of simultaneous kidney-pancreas vs kidney transplant in patients with diabetes who received mate kidneys
Shivani Yerigeri, United States Pediatric to adult transition in solid organ transplant recipients: a systematic review of existing transition programs
Benjamin Limburg, United States
Paired kidney exchange program – a utilitarian service to the underserved populations in the northern great plains of the United States
Dr. Marjan Khodabakhshi, Iran
Empagliflozin effect in prevention of Contrast Nephropathy after Coronary Artery Angiography or Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Dr. Abdullah Ansari, India
The outcomes of immunosuppression modification in mycophenolate mofetil-related gastrointestinal mucosal injury in kidney transplant recipients
Dr. Hinal Ramubhai Rathod, India
Observational study of factors affecting Tacrolimus trough level in renal transplant patients
Abstracts: Basic and Translational Science 2
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Minxue Liao, United States
High PD-L1 expression on Toll-Like-Receptor-stimulated-Bregs as keystone of regulatory function in PD-L1-PD1 interactions with CD4+T cells
Chongming Jiang, United States
Computational immuno-profiling and prediction of antibody-mediated rejection in kidney transplant recipients
Minxue Liao, United States
Natural killer cells involvement in kidney allograft antibody-mediated rejection through biopsy transcriptome assay by data mining strategy
Ankita Burman, Canada
Single-cell RNA sequencing provides insights into intragraft B cell complexity in chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD)
Jurre J Kamphorst, United States
Where & What: Urinary Metabolites Reveal Post-Transplant Journey & Clinical Status
Ruhul H Kuddus, United States
Racial equity in intestine transplantation in the United States
Abstracts: Pediatric
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Brenda G Becerra, Mexico
En bloc kidney transplant to pediatric recipient. Experience of a tertiary care hospital
Katheresan V, India
Living donor liver transplantation for paediatric wilson’s disease: Does an acute presentation impact post-transplant outcomes?
Mojtaba Shafiekhani, Iran
Candida colonization and candidemia among pediatrics solid organ transplantation ; A one year experiences
Ryan G Gemell, South Africa
Plasma cell-rich rejection significantly impacts graft survival in paediatric liver transplantation recipients
Abstracts: Organ Donation
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Imad Aljabban, United States
Successful long-term somatic support of brain-dead human decedent in pre-clinical xenotransplantation study
Lucy A Dames, United Kingdom
Specialist nurse attitudes to consent legislation change
Mohammed Y Mahgoub, United States
Impact of Hypothermic Machine Perfusion on Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Pairs from the Same Deceased Donor in the United States
Amina R Silva, Canada
Donor audits in deceased organ donation: A scoping review
Dr. Bassam Saeed, Syrian Arab Republic
How did the war affect organ transplantation in Syria?
Prof. Bhargav Mistry, United States
A careful aggressive approach at a rural transplant center making a difference
Abstracts: Combined Topics
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Shahzar Malik, United Kingdom
Exploring the role of an implantable doppler probe as a blood flow-monitoring device in kidney transplant: A feasibility randomized controlled trial
Sai Kottapalli, United States
Crowdfunding for solid organ transplants in the United States: A rising trend
lanca Otero Torrón, Spain
Multivisceral transplantation: Description of our extraction technique
Christophe Masset, France
Belatacept conversion in pancreas transplantation: Promising insights from a cohort study
Rozita Khodashahi, Iran
Alterations of body composition in liver transplant recipients
Katya Loban, Canada
The breadwinner and the homemaker: a systematic literature review to explore gender differences in the motivation of donors and candidates to pursue living kidney donation
Marika Morabito, Italy
Prognostic factors in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT): preliminary data for the use of slow graft function (SGF) as a decision-making tool

Day 7 (October 23) - Asia / Oceania / Americas

Wednesday - 9:00 AM (Local time in Tokyo/Seoul) | Local time (Your local time)
Regenerative medicine - Finn J. Hawkins, United States
Wednesday, Oct 23 - 9:40 AM (Local time in Tokyo/Seoul) | Local time (Your local time)
Virtual Thematic: Deceased Donation
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Ian Tatt Liew, Singapore
Deceased donor transplantation in Asia – an experience from Singapore
Maggie Ma, Hong Kong
Equity in deceased donor transplantation in Asia
Transplant Infectious Disease
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John W. Baddley, United States
New Antifungal Drug Delivery
Andrew Karaba, United States
What's new in vaccines? New Antifungal Drug Delivery
Christopher Radcliffe, United States
Travel Medicine for Immunocompromised Patients in the COVID-19 Era
Top 4 scored abstracts from United States
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Audrey Brown, United States
CCR5 Blockade: A novel, safe, and efficacious addition to the immunosuppressive armamentarium following kidney transplantation
Arpajita Mattoo, United States
Evaluation of Proteinuria and Microalbuminuria in a Long-Term Pig-to-Human Xenothymokidney Study
Amanda H Loftin, United States
First successful preclinical transplantation following extended subzero porcine kidney preservation with nature inspired cryoprotectants
Ahmad Karadagi, United States
Reduced inflammation and lymphocyte infiltration
Wednesday, Oct 23 - 11:00 AM (Local time in Tokyo/Seoul) | Local time (Your local time)
Abstracts: Kidney 3
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James Fleming, United States
Diagnostic performance of peripheral blood gene expression at 2 months post-transplant and interim correlation of tests with renal function over 2 years
Isabel G. Scalia, United States
Relationship between pre-transplant and post-transplant echocardiographically derived left atrial volume index and clinical outcomes in kidney transplant recipients
Babak Orandi, United States
Obesogenic medication use in end-stage kidney disease and association with transplant listing
Mr. Tristan Meier, United States
Outcomes of simultaneous liver kidney transplant recipients according to pre-transplant transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) in the United States
Ahmed Zeen Alabedeen Alrifai, United States
Predictors of Delayed Graft Function in the United States: A Comprehensive Multivariable Analysis with a Focus on Hypothermic Machine Perfusion
Abstracts: Basic and Translational Science 3
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Minxue Liao, United States
Functional PD-L1 transfer from TLR-Bregs to activated splenic CD4+T cells
Bima J Hasjim, United States
Perfusion techniques and long-term outcomes in kidney transplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Bradley J Gardiner, Australia
Quantiferon®-Monitor, infections and long-term survival in lung transplant recipients
Hiroaki Mitsugashira, Japan
The impact of improving hypoxic conditions on graft viability in subcutaneous islet transplantation
Toshihide Tomosugi, United States
Selective BCL-2 Inhibition to Promote Hematopoietic Mixed Chimerism and Renal Allograft Tolerance in Low-Dose Cyclophosphamide-Based Conditioning Regimen Without Myelosuppression
Abstracts: Xenotransplant
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Jacqueline I Kim, United States
Can blood products cause antibody-mediated xenograft rejection? Detection and removal of anti-pig xenoantibodies in human blood products
Zahra Habibabady, United States
Insights from platelet and leukocyte sequestration in pig lung perfusion with human blood: role of selectins, porcine sialoadhesin, and CD11b/CD18 Integrin
Jacqueline I Kim, United States
In vivo evaluation of pig kidney xenograft physiology: water handling and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
Daniel Bamira, United States
Transesophageal Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Heart in Genetically Modified Pigs Bred for Xenotransplantation
Karen Khalil, United States
Case studies in renal xenotransplantation pharmacology: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, and vancomycin
Abstracts: Liver and Lung
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Aimee Y. Dai, Australia
A novel anticoagulation protocol increased levels of antithrombin III, protein C and S after liver transplantation in children and resulted in a reduced incidence of hepatic artery thrombosis
Mr. Guillermo Martín Brunetti, Argentina
Descriptive analysis of mechanical ventilation and oxygenation in lung potential donors at ablation day
Dr. Xinxin Zhang, People's Republic of China
The comparison of in-hospital complications and resource utilization between bilateral and unilateral lung transplant in patients with COPD: A 10-year study of National Inpatient Sample
Dr. Bingqing Yue, People's Republic of China
Utilizing Large Language Models for Predictive Analysis of Intraoperative Hemorrhage Risks in Lung Transplant Recipients

Day 5 (October 21) - Europe / Asia / Oceania

Monday, Oct 21 - 9:00 AM (Local time in Paris) | Local time (Your local time)
Keynote Resilience and defying the odds in transplantation
Adam Alderson, United Kingdom
Monday, Oct 21 - 9:45 AM (Local time in Paris) | Local time (Your local time)
Virtual Thematic: Green growth and sustainability in transplantation
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  • Environment effects of surgical procedures and strategies for sustainable surgery - Miguel F. Cunha, Portugal
  • Learnings from green nephrology - Dr. Katherine Barraclough, Australia
  • Climate change and Infection - how it affects transplantation - Ilan Schwartz, United States
WIT: Advancement in Sex and Gender issues
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  • Gender issues in the practice of nephrology and transplantation: Asian perspectives - Prof. Anantharaman Vathsala, Singapore
  • Benefits of investigating sex/gender for my research project - Brenda Rosales, Australia
  • Understanding the cultural and social perspectives in uterine Transplantation - Daniela Crocetti, Italy
Top 4 scored abstracts from Europe and Asia
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  • Randomized phase 2 trial of felzartamab in humoral transplant rejection - Dr. Katharina A Mayer, Austria
  • Guardian of renal harmony: Unraveling the ıntricacies of CD47 expression in allograft rejection and graft survival - Merih Tepeoglu, Turkey
  • Clinical utility of Donor-Derived cell-free DNA (ddcfDNA) in non-invasive monitoring of Liver transplant recipients - Naresh Shanmugam, India
  • Intraportal human hepatocytes transplantation combined with placental mesenchymal stem cells and systemic intravenous placental mesenchymal stem cells infusion in decompensated liver cirrhosis - Denis Efimov, Belarus
Monday, Oct 21 - 11:00 AM (Local time in Paris) | Local time (Your local time)
Abstracts: Kidney 1
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  • Understanding sex differences in relative cancer survival in kidney transplant recipients: A bi-national study, 1980-2019 - Brenda Rosales, Australia
  • Specific gut microbiome and metabolome features in renal allograft rejection via multi-omics integration analyses - Xing Dai, People's Republic of China
  • Assessing the outcome of deceased donor transplantation in recipients aged 70 and above: Are renal transplants a viable option for the ageing population? Ammatul Takaza, United Kingdom
  • Spontaneous resolution of subclinical antibody-mediated rejection detected by protocol biopsy in renal transplantation - Kazuaki Yamanaka, Japan
  • Second kidney transplant: A single centre retrospective cohort study from north India - Mugdha Sathe, India
  • Prevalence of non- representation of HLA antigens and alleles in Single Antigen Bead assay panels in patients at a referral lab - Shruti N Tapiawala, India
Abstracts: Basic and Translational Science 1
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  • Diagnostic test accuracy of detecting donor-derived cell-free DNA In renal transplant rejection: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Michael Wong, United Kingdom
  • Confirmation of the multi-parametric cfDNA algorithm for early allograft injury events in lung transplantation - Miss Alizée SEBASTIAN, France
  • PD-1 stimulation of human regulatory T cells using stimulating de novo miniprotein in vitro increased Foxp3/Helios expression - Quan Yao Ho, Singapore
Abstracts: Infectious Diseases
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  • Epidemiology, clinical outcomes and treatment patterns of cytomegalovirus infection after organ transplant in China: A scoping review and meta-analysis - Wu Jingyi, People's Republic of China 
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of antiviral prophylaxis in preventing posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease in solid organ transplant recipients -Marjan Moghadamnia, Iran 
  • Preferences for the treatment of Polyomavirus (BKPyV) infection in kidney transplant recipients: a discrete choice experiment with patients, caregivers and clinicians - Chanel H. Chong, Australia 
  • COVID-19 Hospitalization Among Liver Transplant Recipients: Multicenter Study of Clinical Outcomes in the United States - Linda Chen, United States 
  • Infection transmission risk from kidney donors with active Hepatitis B: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational data - Karen M.J. Waller, Australia 

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