WTC 2025 - Needs Assessment Survey & Call For Program Sessions

WTC 2025 Needs Your Opinion

We are seeking your valuable feedback to improve our processes for the upcoming 2025 World Transplant Congress. We would greatly appreciate your participation in a short (8min) Needs Assessment Survey. You can access the survey by clicking on the button “Survey Link” below. The deadline to complete: October 11, 2024, at 11:29 pm (EST).

Please note that you are not required to complete the entire survey. Feel free to provide input on the sections that are the most relevant to you. Your responses will be incredibly helpful, even if you choose to answer just a few questions.

Thank you for your time and insights!

The WTC 2025 Organizing Committee

WTC 2025 - Call for Sessions

On behalf of the American Society of Transplantation, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and The Transplantation Society, we are delighted to invite you to submit your ideas for program sessions for the World Transplant Congress 2025 (WTC 2025), to be held from August 2-6, 2025, in San Francisco, California, USA.

We are looking for programs that will be interactive, include global themes, speakers, and moderators, and focus on cutting-edge topics that address transplantation and end organ failure.


Just Released - Transplantation Journal - October Issue

This issue is full of surprises across the board. From surprises there will inevitably come advances: Pancreas volume is important in living liver donors; antecedent cardiac arrest doesn't impact DGF after DCD; extracellular vesicles released during organ perfusion may have clinical implications; master surgeons are worse than trained liver retreivalists; and cGVHD is better after haplo than HLA identical transplants—the secret is in the post-transplant cyclophosphamide! There are also great reviews on B cells, macrophages, and mass CyTOF amongst a stellar lineup. So, no matter what your interests are, this issue will give you new insights for your work.

Table of Contents

Research Highlights

Game Changer

Expert Insights

Commentaries

Reviews

Original Basic Science

Original Clinical Science—Liver

Original Clinical Science—General

Letters to the Editor



TTS 2024 Recordings

Plenary Session Recordings

Recordings of the six plenary sessions are now available to TTS Members. All recordings will be made available by October 11! Congress attendees may now enjoy early access through the Congress Webapp ( app.tts2024.org).

Asian Transplant Week 2024 - Early Bird Registration Deadline is October 9!

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is our great honor and pleasure to invite you to Asian Transplantation Week 2024 (ATW 2024) to be held from November 14 (Thu) to 16 (Sat), 2024 at the Conrad Seoul, Seoul, Korea.

Since its expansion into an international congress in 2016, ATW has continually grown, breaking its own record every year in the number of participants. Today, ATW has firmly established itself as the premier transplantation-related academic congress representing the Asian-Pacific region.

Under the theme “Challenges and Opportunities in Asian Transplantation,” the ATW 2024 Organizing Committee is designing an exhilarating scientific program featuring high-quality sessions that will delve into the latest breakthroughs and hot topics across diverse transplantation fields. This year’s edition will provide a platform for distinguished speakers and participants to share their insights while encouraging active engagement and communication within the transplantation community.

It is the wish of the Korean Society for Transplantation (KST), the organizing society of ATW, to have the opportunity to share its expertise and explore the latest knowledge and challenges with our colleagues from around the world through ATW 2024. We are committed to dedicating all our efforts to hosting a congress that is not only meaningful but also enjoyable for all the participants.

Please mark your calendar and join us this November. We eagerly anticipate meeting you at ATW 2024!

Transplantation Journal Highlights

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The Second International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of BK Polyomavirus in Kidney Transplantation
BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) remains a significant challenge after kidney transplantation. International experts reviewed current evidence and updated recommendations according to Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations (GRADE). Risk factors for BKPyV-DNAemia and biopsy-proven BKPyV-nephropathy include recipient older age, male sex, donor BKPyV-viruria, BKPyV-seropositive donor/-seronegative recipient, tacrolimus, acute rejection, and higher steroid exposure.
Ethical Issues in Normothermic Regional Perfusion in Controlled Organ Donation After Determination of Death by Circulatory Criteria: A Scoping Review
Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) is a surgical technique that can improve the quality and number of organs recovered for donation after the determination of death by circulatory criteria. Despite its promise, adoption of NRP has been hindered because of unresolved ethical issues.

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Anti-HLA Class II Antibodies Are the Most Resistant to Desensitization in Crossmatch-positive Living-donor Kidney Transplantations: A Patient Series
In HLA-incompatible kidney transplantation, the efficacy of desensitization in terms of anti-HLA antibody kinetics is not well characterized. We present an overview of the course of anti-HLA antibodies throughout plasma exchange (PE) desensitization in a series of crossmatch-positive patients.
Training the Next Generation of Transplant Surgeons With a 3-Dimensional Trainer: A Pilot Study
In the United States, no published guidelines promote exposure to technical variants (ie, living donor or split liver) during transplant fellowship. Simulation with hands-on liver models may improve training in transplantation. This pilot study addressed 3 overall goals (material and model creation tools, recruitment rates and assessment of workload, and protocol adherence).

ISN-TTS Sister Centers Program Application Deadline

The program is a joint partnership between the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and The Transplantation Society (TTS) to help establish new kidney transplant centers and develop existing kidney transplant programs in emerging countries. Please note that the program is open to all ISN and TTS members.

This initiative fosters partnerships between experienced transplant centers in the developed regions (Supporting Centers or SCs) and new and developing transplant centers (Emerging Centers or ECs) in low-resource regions, providing a framework and funding for up to six years of collaboration if adequate progress is made.

After six- years of improvement on the program, graduated centers are encouraged to support a third center within their region and therefore sustain the impact of their training and help other centers to develop.

Application Deadline
October 15, 2024


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