Scientific Program
Thursday, 21st November 2024
11:30-13:00
Registration & Opening
11:30 - 12:30
Registration & Welcome Coffee
12:30 - 12:40
Opening (M. Schmelzle, Hannover)
12:40 - 12:50
Welcome (MHH President M. Manns)
12:50 - 13:00
Welcome (Science Minister Lower Saxony F. Mohrs)
13:00-15:00
Organ Shortage and Marginal Donor Organs
Chairs
F. Ius, Hannover | M. Koch, Mainz | M. Quante, Hannover
13:00 - 13:15
Introduction of machine perfusion from the perspective of a perfusionist - experiences and effects of the method on the Rotterdam organ transplant program (J. Willemse, Rotterdam)
13:20 - 13:35
Resuscitation of marginal livers: machine perfusion and beyond (M. Grat, Warsaw)
13:40 – 13:55
How can we transplant more organs with low donation rates? (F. Ius, Hannover)
14:00 - 14:15
Challenges in Heart Transplantation – Novel bridging strategies (B. Schmack, Hannover)
14:20 - 14:35
Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Advantages for both Recipients and Donors (R. Shapiro, NYC)
14:40 - 14:55
Prediction of Survival and other relevant Outcomes during Evaluation (M. Nöhre, Hannover)
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:30
Transplant Oncology
Chairs
S. Nadalin, Tübingen | R. Öllinger, Berlin | H. Wedemeyer, Hannover
15:30 - 15:45
Donor transmitted Cancer in Organ Donation and Transplantation in Germany (A. Barreiros, Frankfurt)
15:50 - 16:05
Transplant for Primary Cancer – thinking outside the box (W. Schoening, Berlin)
16:10 - 16:25
Transplant for Liver Metastasis – What is possible in Germany? (Rauchfuß, Jena)
16:30 - 16:45
Tumor Immunology meets Transplant Immunology (Greten, NIH)
16:50-17:05
Clonal Hematopoiesis: impact in transplant recipients and epigenetic intervention strategies (F. Perner, Hannover)
17:10 - 17:25
EBV-specific T cell therapy for PTLD (B. Maecker-Kolhoff, Hannover)
17:30-17:45 Coffee break
17:45-18:45
Key Note Lecture
17:45 - 17:55
World Transplant Games (C. Bausch)
17:55 - 18:45
One organ for a life-time available whenever needed: Are we getting closer? (S. Tullius, Boston)
Friday, 22nd November 2024
07:00-08:30
Registration & Opening
07:00 - 08:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
08:00 - 08:10
Opening (M. Schmelzle, Hannover)
08:10 - 08:20
Welcome (M. Koch, DTG)
08:20 - 08:30
Welcome (P. Kaul, Hannover)
08:30-10:30
Immunological Approaches to Save Organs
Chairs
J. Gottlieb, Hannover | A. Melk, Hannover | M. Morgan, Hannover
08:30 - 08:45
Graft outcomes in adolescent and young recipients (K. Twombley, Charleston)
08:50 - 09:05
CAR-Treg Therapies in Organ Transplantation (E. Jaeckel, Toronto)
09:10 - 09:25
Tolerance and Chimerism – From an Organ Perspective (C. Falk, Hannover)
09:30 - 09:45
Acute T-cell-mediated rejection – single cell and spatial transcriptomics approaches (C. Hinze, Hannover)
09:50 - 10:05
CORA-T cells to selectively deplete alloreactive B Cells (A. Dragon, Hannover)
10:10 - 10:25
Biopsy-guided personalized immunosuppression (R. Taubert, Hannover)
10:30-11:30 Coffee break & Poster Session 1
11:30-13:30
Graft Remodeling – What Comes Next?
Chairs
J. Bauersachs, Hannover | R. Blasczyk, Hannover | D. Haffner, Hannover
11:30 - 11:45
Building organs, Science Fiction or Reality (S.L. Nyberg, Rochester)
11:50 - 12:05
Defatting and Senolysis of liver grafts - how far is it from clinical application? (N. Raschzok, Berlin)
12:10 - 12:25
Non-coding RNA – Therapeutic Perspectives (C. Bär, Hannover)
12:30 - 12:45
Cellular pathogenesis of Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (J. Schupp, Hannover)
12:50 - 13:05
Genetic engineering to overcome rejection (C.S. de Figueiredo, Hannover)
13:10 - 13:25
Protein therapy after myocardial infarction (K.C. Wollert, Hannover)
13:30-14:30 Coffee break & Poster Session 2
14:30-16:30
Xenotransplantation – Are we Ready for Translation?
Chairs
A. Ruhparwar, Hannover | K. Schmidt-Ott, Hannover | R. Schwinzer, Hannover
14:30 - 14:45
How to Proceed – From Pig to Organ to Model? (S. Robson, Boston)
14:50 - 15:05
Treatment of type 1 diabetes with porcine islet cells (J. Seißler, München)
15:10 - 15:25
Genetic Engineering of pigs (K. Fischer, München)
15:30 - 15:45
Extracorporeal xenogeneic organ perfusion – A new bridging therapy for patients with acute organ failure (P. Felgendreff & R. Ramm, Hannover)
15:50 - 16:05
Steps to clinical heart xenotransplantation (M. Längin, München)
16:10 - 16:25
Xeno – from bench to bedside (H. Niemann, Hannover)
16:30-16:45
Closing
16:30 - 16:45
Closing (M. Schmelzle, Hannover)
