The Local Organizing Committee for the XXIII International Congress of The Transplantation Society is in the progress to arrange and schedule an exciting Scientific Program for this important and outstanding Congress.
Please find below the confirmed Plenary Program. For detailed biographies and pictures of our distinguished Plenary Speakers you may want to go to the 'Keynote Speaker' page on this Website.
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PLENARY 1 |
PLENARY 2 |
PLENARY 3 |
PLENARY 4 Thursday 19 August |
| Topic: The Genome and Beyond |
Topic: Allorecognition and Tolerance |
Topic: Stem Cells and Regeneration |
Topic: Innovations in Immune Suppression |
| Chairs: Jeremy Chapman, Australia Marcelo Cantarovich, Canada |
Chairs: Gerhard Opelz, Germany Lori West, Canada |
Chairs: Kathryn Wood, UK Lee Anne Tibbles, Canada |
Chairs: Greg Knoll, Canada Gary Levy, Canada |
Lecture 1 • (08:30 - 09:00) Basic Science |
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Dr. Leroy Hood Seattle, USA Vision and Future of Systems Biology |
Dr. Philippa Marrack Denver, USA Why is the Alloresponse so strong? |
Dr. Hans Schöler Münster, Germany Generation, Programming and Applications of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells |
Dr. Jeff Bluestone San Francisco, USA miRNA in Immunity and Transplantation |
Lecture 2 • (09:00 - 09:30) Translational |
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Dr. Jack Greenblatt Toronto, Canada Beyond the Genome |
Dr. Christian Larsen Atlanta, USA Inducing Transplantation Tolerance |
Dr. Doris Taylor Minneapolis, USA Advances in Regenerative Biology and Organ Biogenesis |
Dr. Petra Reinke Berlin, Germany Guidance of Immunosuppression by Biomarkers |
Lecture 3 • (09:30 - 10:00) Clinical |
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Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran New York, USA Monitoring Allograft Status in the 21st Century: A Noninvasive Molecular Approach |
Dr. David Sachs Boston, USA Tolerance in Clinical Transplantation |
Dr. Shaf Keshavjee Toronto, Canada Lung Repair, Regeneration and Transplantation |
Dr. Roslyn Mannon Birmingham, USA Current Advances in Clinical Immunosuppression |