Programme

Morning Abstract and Concurrent Sessions

Biogen Corporate Breakfast Symposium on Advancements in Antibody-Mediated Rejection and Microvascular Inflammation of Kidney Allograft

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Room Parkside 1&2 Industry Symposium

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Basic mechanisms of experimental kidney allograft injury

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room Cockle Bay 1 Abstract Session
- SPP1 as a predictive biomarker and therapeutic target in fibrotic
  
  Zijie Wang (CN)
  
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- TLS-mediated B cell–SPP1⁺ macrophage–EndMT axis drives renal allograft fibrosis and its modulation by Iguratimod
  
  Zijie Wang (CN)
  
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- An AAV-Mediated Murine Model for the Study of ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation
  
  Jiang Zhang (CN)
  
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- Mitochondrial injury in human and mouse kidneys with ischemia reperfusion injury
  
  Slaghaniya Neupane (CA)
  
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- METTL3 Potentiates M2 Macrophage-Driven MMT to Aggravate Renal Allograft Fibrosis via the TGF-β1/Smad3 Pathway
  
  Qinfan Yao (HK)
  
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- FCGR4+ Macrophages Promote Endothelial Cell Injury by Antibody-Dependent Cellular Phagocytosis in Antibody-Mediated Rejection after Kidney Transplantation
  
  Bin Ni (CN)
  
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- Histidine metabolism arms macrophages against chronic kidney
  
  Zijie Wang (CN)
  
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- CX3CL1⁺ HEV licenses gut-imprinted CX3CR1+ myeloid cells to form an ectopic TLS niche and drive chronic renal allograft dysfunction
  
  Zijie Wang (CN)
  
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- Nintedanib significantly attenuated the progression of chronic allograft nephropathy via the inhibition of macrophage
  
  Zijie Wang (CN)
  
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Tolerance versus rejection 2

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room Cockle Bay 2 Abstract Session
- A novel depleting anti-CD2 monoclonal antibody for induction of mixed chimerism and allograft tolerance in nonhuman primates
  
  Avery Wilson (US)
  
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- Targeting the CXCL10–CXCR3 Axis Attenuates Macrophage Infiltration and Ameliorates Antibody-Mediated Rejection
  
  Tian Wei (CN)
  
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- TCF-1+ progenitor-like T cells sustain localized effector responses that mediate allograft rejection
  
  Faruk Sacirbegovic (US)
  
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- NAMPT crotonylation dictates cardiomyocyte autophagy to modulate immune rejection in murine heart transplantation
  
  Ruidong Ding (CN)
  
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- LEA29Y expression executes a heterogenous protective effect on cardiac transplants in a porcine allograft model
  
  Andrea Bähr (DE)
  
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Kidney allograft rejection; mechanisms and novel therapeutics

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C3.3 Abstract Session
- Subthreshold Inflammation Matters: A Continuum Model of TCMR Risk
  
  Karolien Wellekens (BE)
  
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- Augmented washed microbiota transplantation for chronic allograft fibrosis in renal transplantation
  
  Zijie Wang (CN)
  
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- Clinical outcomes of the use of subcutaneous daratumumab for donor-derived cell-free DNA guided treatment of antibody mediated rejection in asian kidney transplant recipients at the Singapore General Hospital
  
  Terence Kee (SG)
  
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- Kidney allograft outcomes in acute T cell-mediated rejection accompanied by microvascular inflammation: An inverse probability weighted multicentre cohort study
  
  Jiayue Wang (AU)
  
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- Molecular Diagnosis of kidney allograft rejection using the BHOT gene panel-based HistoMx System in Chinese population: a validation study
  
  Huanxi Zhang (CN)
  
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Insights into old and new therapeutics 2

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C3.4-C3.5 Abstract Session
- Cellular Senescence Drives Age-Related Resistance to Costimulatory Blockade in Transplantation
  
  Sarah Tsou (US)
  
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- A new treatment for infants with congenital nephrotic syndrome: pre-emptive kidney transplantation along with simultaneous bilateral nephrectomy
  
  Lan Zhu (CN)
  
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- Sequential CD38 Monoclonal Antibody Induction Followed by Azathioprine Maintenance versus Continuous CD38 Therapy for Chronic Active Antibody-Mediated Rejection: A NK Cell-Targeted Comparative Study
  
  Chunchun Wei (CN)
  
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- Senolytic therapy drives immune remodeling in the aged kidney microenvironment
  
  Martin Jaros (DE)
  
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- An ROS-responsive targeted nanoplatform for precise rapamycin delivery to alleviate hepatic ischemia–Reperfusion injury
  
  Yuhang Li (CN)
  
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- Exosomal miR-106b-5p derived from MDSC repair renal transplantation ischemia-reperfusion injury via targeting PDK4
  
  Xiaoyan Huang (CN)
  
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Key components of an ideal high volume transplant program setup: A global surgical perspective

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C3.6 Concurrent
- The European perspective
  
  Jiri Fronek (CZ)
- The Asian perspective
  
  Ashwin Rammohan (IN)
- The Oceania perspective
  
  Henry Pleass (AU)
- Panel discussion
  
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Metabolic dysfunction and liver transplantation

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.1 Concurrent
- Obesity, diabetes and MAFLD- A target or bystander?
  
  Dinesh Jothimani (IN)
- Getting the right patients to transplant: Patient selection, pre-transplant evaluation, and organ allocation in MAFLD
  
  Kymberly Watt (US)
- Optimising outcomes in patients with obesity after transplant: lifestyle modification, bariatric surgery or lifelong GLP1 therapy?
  
  Marina Berenguer (ES)

Immune tolerance, biomarkers, and chronic allograft injury in liver transplantation

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.5 Abstract Session
Moderator: Nancy Kwan Man (HK)
- Regulatory dendritic cell infusion and early immunosuppressive drug withdrawal in adult live donor liver transplantation
  
  Angus Thomson (US)
  
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- Liver-resident natural killer cells promote immune tolerance after liver transplantation via the PDL1/PD1 axis: Toward engineered cell therapy
  
  Haitao Huang (CN)
  
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- Tumor burden rather than incidence of acute rejection indicates 1-year OFS and RFS
  
  Björn Nashan (CN)
  
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- Pretransplant natural killer cell activity predicts hpatocellular carcinoma recurrence and survival after living donor liver transplantation
  
  Ho Joong Choi (KR)
  
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- Integrative Transcriptomics and Machine Learning Identify Inflammatory and Profibrotic signalling as a Central Driver of Immune-Mediated Fibrosis in Chronic Liver Allograft Rejection.
  
  Marco Santillán Pazmiño (AR)
  
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- Impact of the high baseline anti-A/B antibody titer on the clinical outcomes in ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplantation
  
  Jai Young Cho (KR)
  
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- Iguratimod attenuates chronic allograft fibrosis by inhibiting macrophage–myofibroblast transformation via NCOA4-dependent ferritinophagy
  
  Zijie Wang (CN)
  
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Ethics and kidney transplantation

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.6 Abstract Session
Moderator: Aviva Goldberg (CA)
- Operational guidelines for the National kidney swap transplantation program in India: A modified Delphi Consensus by Indian Society of Organ Transplantation and National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization
  
  Pranjal Kashiv (IN)
  
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- The role of comorbidities and insurance type in explaining intersectional racial and gender disparities in kidney transplant waitlisting: A mediation analysis
  
  Annika Gompers (US)
  
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- The kidney waiting list index (KiWI): Design and validation of the aotearoa New Zealand kidney transplant waiting list score
  
  Helen L. Pilmore (NZ)
  
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- Economic evaluation of the Proposed Kidney Only Allocation Algorithm (KOALA) in Australia
  
  Yitong Yao (AU)
  
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- Ethnicity and early clinical outcomes in older adult kidney transplant recipients: insights from a multi-ethnic cohort
  
  Zhan Yi Lim (GB)
  
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Advancing islet and stem cell transplantation: Immune modulation, bioengineering, and graft survival

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.7 Abstract Session
- A multi-centre study of Belatacept and Sirolimus for human islet transplantation
  
  Natasha Rogers (AU)
  
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- The potential of Macaca fuscata, as a recipient model for porcine islet xenotransplantation
  
  Naoaki Sakata (JP)
  
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- Subcutaneous cell sheet transplantation as a superior strategy to intraportal route for induced pluripotent stem cell-derived pancreatic islet cells therapy
  
  Koki Kurahashi (JP)
  
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- Engineering Pancreatic Islet Organoids with a Hierarchical Vascular Network
  
  Jialin Cui (JP)
  
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- Immune cell and serum cytokine dynamics in islet transplant recipients receiving Belatacept/Sirolimus versus Tacrolimus/Mycophenolate
  
  Rachel Cheong (AU)
  
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- PTBP1 promotes autophagy via the Slc22a17/Lcn2 axis to alleviate apoptosis in grafted islets
  
  Jingwen Wang (CN)
  
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- Pharmacological Inhibition of mtROS-ARA-12-HETE Axis Enhances the Function and Therapeutic Potential of Stem Cell-Derived β Cells for Diabetes
  
  Huanjing Bi (CN)
  
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CMV and BK virus in transplant recipients: Pearls from the guidelines and emerging frontiers

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Room C4.8 Concurrent
Moderators: Wanessa T. Clemente (BR), Jeremy Chapman (AU)
- Pearls from the BK guidelines
  
  Nassim Kamar (FR)
- Pearls from the CMV guidelines
  
  Camille N. Kotton (US)
- Beyond the guidelines- new developments and future directions: BK
  
  Germaine Wong (AU)
- Beyond the guidelines - new developments and future directions: CMV
  
  Atul Humar (CA)
- Panel discussion: challenging BK case, challenging CMV case
  
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Pediatric general

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.9 Abstract Session
- Dysregulated succinate metabolism in M1 macrophages promotes hepatic stellate cell activation and graft fibrosis after pediatric liver transplantation
  
  Zhixin Zhang (CN)
  
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- Protective anti-HBs thresholds and risk of De Novo hepatitis B after pediatric liver transplantation using anti-HBc–positive donor grafts
  
  Mehmet A. Haberal (TR)
  
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- Long-term outcomes of pediatric donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplantation: preliminary results from an European liver transplant registry study
  
  Francesca Albanesi (IT)
  
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- Paediatric Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Hypertension: Excellent Outcomes in a Nationally Centralised Program
  
  Miranda Paraskeva (AU)
  
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- Identifying an appropriate KDPI max value for paediatric renal recipients
  
  Fiona Hudson (AU)
  
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- Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccination after paediatric heart transplantation
  
  Anne Dipchand (CA)
  
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- International Comparisons of Paediatric Organ Donation Systems: a Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Policies, Practices, and Interventions Associated with Higher Consent Rates
  
  Leah McLaughlin (GB)
  
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HLA, antibodies, and alloimmune risk in transplantation: Kidney-focused insights with cross-organ relevance

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.10 Abstract Session
Moderator: Anne Halpin (CA)
- 2026 Update of the Serologic Nomenclature for Factors of the HLA System; its impact in listing Unacceptable HLA antigens and DSA assessment
  
  Marcelo Fernandez Viña (US)
  
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- Impact of preformed donor specific antibodies on rejection, allograft survival and mortality in kidney transplant recipients: An Australian registry study
  
  Paayal Naidu (AU)
  
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- Donor specific antibodies in paediatric liver allograft T cell mediated rejection
  
  Suzan Warner (AU)
  
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- Acute Rejection in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: The Central Role of De Novo Donor-Specific Antibodies and Impact of Targeted Therapy on Graft Outcomes
  
  Alaa Alsaqqa (AE)
  
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- Molecular pathological diagnosis and clinical decision-making system based on mRNA expression profile and immunohischemistry in kidney transplantation
  
  Ping Lan (CN)
  
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Beyond static cold storage: Hypothermic machine perfusion in transplantation—from mechanisms to clinical impact

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.11 Abstract Session
- Hypothermic oxygenated perfusion improves recipient survival in a rodent model of allogeneic intestinal transplantation
  
  Koki Takase (US)
  
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- First experience with hypothermic oxygenated perfusion of human uteri: Feasibility and metabolic characterization
  
  Keyue Sun (US)
  
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- Real-World Use of Hypothermic Machine Perfusion: Trends and Impact on Short-Term Kidney Allograft Outcomes
  
  Alexander Cortez (US)
  
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- Comparative Efficacy of Continuous Hypothermic Machine Perfusion, Hybrid Machine Perfusion with Static Cold Storage, and Static Cold Storage Alone on Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Single-Center Cohort Study
  
  Valeria Ripa (US)
  
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- Transplanting green kidneys in the era of machine perfusion
  
  Greta Gurry (AU)
  
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- Comparative Analysis of Short-Term Outcomes of Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion Versus Static Cold Storage in Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation: A Single-Centre Experience
  
  Kandarpa Akhil (IN)
  
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- Hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion for partial grafts in a porcine model simulating living donor liver transplantation
  
  Ayaka Satoh (JP)
  
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Abstract and Concurrent Sessions

ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation and antibody mediated rejection

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room Cockle Bay 1 Abstract Session
- Integrating Serological CREG and Molecular Eplet Analysis Enhances Characterization of Alloreactivity in Sensitized Renal Transplant Recipients: A Single-Centre Study
  
  krishnakumar VR (IN)
  
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- Clinical outcomes and prognostic factors of ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation: A single-center retrospective study using propensity score matching
  
  Myung Yup Hyun (KR)
  
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- Combination Strategies with Daratumumab to Mitigate Rebound in Kidney Transplant ABMR: A Real-World Study
  
  Huanxi Zhang (CN)
  
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- Clinical Practice of Complement C5 Monoclonal Antibody in ABO-Incompatible Living Related Donor Kidney Transplantation
  
  Puxun Tian (CN)
  
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Ischaemia reperfusion injury

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room Cockle Bay 2 Abstract Session
- THBS1 Acts as an Intracellular "Brake" to Orchestrate Immune Remodeling and Mitigate Post-transplantation Liver Injury
  
  Bowen Wu (CN)
  
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- Mitochondrial Priming and Metabolic Unloading Synergistically Restore Energetics in DCD Hearts: A Combined Cardioplegia-Phase Ischemic Preconditioning and Machine Perfusion-Phase Dialysis Strategy
  
  Priyanka Prem (IN)
  
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- RhoA/ROCK2/MYL9 signaling pathway mediates ischemia-reperfusion injury and fibrosis after liver transplantation
  
  SHENGQIAO ZHAO (CN)
  
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- IL-27Rα Deficiency Attenuates Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury via Regulating Macrophage Polarization and Inhibiting Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress
  
  Yingqi Zeng (CN)
  
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- PGE2 induces hypermethylation in MDSCs, thereby protecting against ischaemia-reperfusion injury in kidney transplantation
  
  Xiaoyan Huang (CN)
  
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- Translation study to document application of treprostinil for minimizing ischemia-reperfusion injury in donation after circulatory death livers using normothermic machine perfusion
  
  Shambhavi Parab (US)
  
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- Recipient toll-like receptor 4 determines the outcome of ischemia-reperfusion injury in steatotic liver transplantation in mice
  
  Kosuke Tanaka (JP)
  
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- Time resolved proteomic signatures of ischemia–reperfusion injury in a porcine donation after circulatory death simulated liver transplant model using ex vivo machine perfusion
  
  Mun Chae Choi (KR)
  
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Economics, environment and patient experience in kidney transplantation

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C3.3 Abstract Session
- Impact of different eplet matching strategies on the feasibility and equity of eplet based kidney allocation
  
  Jenny Tran (CA)
  
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- The UAE Journey for Organ Transplantation: Evolution and Clinical Outcomes of a National and Pediatric Program (2017–2026)
  
  Abdalazeez Alghraizat (AE)
  
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- A Natural Experiment in Allocation: Outcomes of Mate Kidneys in Simultaneous Liver–Kidney Versus Kidney-Alone Transplantation
  
  Oscar Garcia Valencia (US)
  
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- Out-of-pocket expenditure and financial implications of renal transplant in children at a not-for-profit tertiary care hospital in a low-middle-income country
  
  Indira Agarwal (IN)
  
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- Patient perspectives on loneliness and social isolation in people receiving kidney replacement therapy including kidney transplant recipients: An interview study.
  
  Amanda Sluiter (AU)
  
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Immunoregulation in transplantation 2

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C3.4-C3.5 Abstract Session
- NR4A1⁺ Immunoregulatory Macrophages Protect Renal Allografts from Chronic Rejection by Anchoring and Taming CD8⁺ Tissue-Resident Memory T Cells via a Dual-Signal Axis
  
  Chao Yang (CN)
  
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- Ex vivo Genetic Silencing of Donor MHC via Normothermic Machine Perfusion Achieves Long-term Renal Allograft Survival
  
  Tong Chen (CN)
  
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- IL4I1-I3P-AhR Axis-Mediated Tryptophan Metabolic Hijacking Orchestrates an mregDC-Treg Spatial Niche to Promote Allograft Tolerance
  
  Zetao Ding (CN)
  
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- CX3CR1+CD4+ cytotoxic T Cells target cholangiocyte self-antigens to drive autoimmunity in biliary atresia
  
  Wanglong Xiao (CN)
  
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- Spatial dynamics of the T cell response to solid organ transplantation in mice
  
  Amy Prosser (AU)
  
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- Gut microbiota causally regulates allograft rejection through suppression of T helper 17 cell responses
  
  Yanzhuo Liu (CN)
  
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- Interleukin-27Rα deficiency promotes acute kidney injury through enhancing M1 macrophages polarization via the JAK1/STAT1 pathway
  
  Chen Feng (CN)
  
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Advances in organ preservation, perfusion, and peri-transplant monitoring across liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C3.6 Abstract Session
Moderator: Oscar Garcia Valencia (US)
- Fingerprint in the cold: Perfusate profiling of extended criteria donor livers during hypothermic oxygenated perfusion using Raman spectroscopy
  
  Meryl Copray (NL)
  
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- Interim report on NEWHOPE: a first-in-human study on hypothermic machine perfusion with Omnisol preservation solution of deceased donor kidneys prior to transplantation
  
  Liselotte Jeletich (NL)
  
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- Frequency and financial impact of DCD liver procurement dry runs in the normothermic machine perfusion era
  
  Alexander Cortez (US)
  
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- Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation Reduces the Incidence of New-Onset Diabetes After Transplantation
  
  Ruilin Cai (CN)
  
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- Ischemia-free liver transplantation: 7-year experience from a single-centre cohort in China
  
  he xiaoshun (CA)
  
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From allorecognition to allocation: Moving toward more individualized kidney transplant matching

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C4.1 Concurrent
Moderator: Rhonda Holdsworth (AU)
- Importance of HLA beyond the A/B/DR
  
  Anat Tambur (US)
- Beyond HLA: Expanding the immunologic landscape
  
  Toby Coates (AU)
- Precision risk stratification
  
  Wai Lim (AU)

Post-transplant complications, risk prediction & outcomes

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C4.5 Abstract Session
- Rate, Risk Factors and Outcomes of Early Hepatic Artery and Portal Vein Thrombosis After Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A 20-Year Review of a Large North American Center
  
  Doaa Fahmy (CA)
  
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- Incidence and Outcomes of Malignancy Following Adult Intestinal Transplantation: A National Cohort Study
  
  Charlotte Yates (GB)
  
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- Analysis of the Impact of Graft Quality and Volume on Early Allograft Dysfunction After Ex-situ Liver Resection and Autotransplantation and Construction of a Predictive Model
  
  Abuduhaiwaier Abuduhelili (CN)
  
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- Osteonecrosis After Liver Transplantation: The Role of Pre-transplant Disease Burden Beyond Corticosteroid Exposure
  
  Eun Sung Jeong (KR)
  
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- Impact of Radiation Therapy on Biliary Complications in Liver Transplantation Recipients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis
  
  Minha Choi (KR)
  
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- Risk Stratification Tool for Primary Nonfunction After Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A Novel Model to Guide Urgent Retransplantation
  
  Shuangqing Han (CN)
  
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- Different knots, similar outcomes: Surgical technique does not influence anastomotic stricture risk in duct-to-duct transplants!
  
  Samith Alwis (AU)
  
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- Independent Risk Factors and Predictors of Maintenance Duration for Tracheostomy in Liver Transplant Recipients: A Comprehensive Multivariable Analysis
  
  Minha Choi (KR)
  
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Immunosuppression in liver and kidney transplantation

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C4.6 Abstract Session
Moderator: Roslyn B. Mannon (US)
- CD40L-Target Nanoparticles Co-Delivering Sirolimus and CD28 siRNA for the Suppression of Allogeneic Liver Transplantation Rejection
  
  Xiandong Zeng (CN)
  
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- Imlifidase in highly sensitized kidney transplant recipients with a positive crossmatch against a deceased donor - Results of the French ISKIA Registry
  
  Lionel Couzi (FR)
  
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- Encore presentation: The ConfIdeS study: Imlifidase desensitization results in timelier transplant with superior 1-year eGFR among highly sensitized patients compared to control
  
  Robert A. Montgomery (US)
  
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- Induction immunosuppression strategy and long-term graft and patient survival in contemporary adult liver transplantation: A United States allocation-era reassessment
  
  Isabella Faria (US)
  
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- VISTA positive macrophages define an immature tertiary lymphoid niche in renal allograft tolerance
  
  Rui Shi (CN)
  
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- Tacrolimus Exposure Variability and Viral Infection Risk after Kidney Transplantation: A Stratified Analysis Using TTR and CV
  
  Hyung Sub Park (KR)
  
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Long-term outcomes and precision surveillance in heart transplantation: Rejection, vasculopathy, and immune monitoring

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C4.7 Abstract Session
Moderator: Lori J. West (CA)
- Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance-Guided Rejection Surveillance in Cardiac Transplantation: Five-year Safety Outcomes
  
  Yiling Situ (AU)
  
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- Progression of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in heart recipients with donor-transmitted coronary atherosclerosis
  
  Stepan Sakhovsky (RU)
  
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- The role of blood plasma cytokines in the diagnosis of rejection long-term after heart transplantation
  
  Maria Simonenko (RU)
  
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- HLA mismatch burden and De Novo malignancy after heart transplantation: A single-center Korean cohort study
  
  Darae Kim (KR)
  
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- Genetic testing yield in heart transplant recipients with an undifferentiated cardiomyopathy – a single centre experience in Western Australia
  
  Ellen McGuckin (AU)
  
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- Long Term Survival and Graft Related Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Contemporary Australian Heart Transplant Recipients
  
  Ajay Dharan (AU)
  
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- Evaluation of the coronary arteries of a heart transplant using optical coherence tomography
  
  Stepan Sakhovsky (RU)
  
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Clinical outcomes, perioperative management, and organ utilization in transplantation

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C4.9 Abstract Session
- Towards Outpatient Kidney Transplant: A Comparative Analysis of the AWAKE trial versus Standard Kidney Transplantation
  
  Vinayak Rohan (US)
  
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- The effect of intraoperative thermal kidney insulation on current kidney transplantation surgical practices: a feasibility study.
  
  Amy Hort (AU)
  
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- Lessons learned transplanting single pediatric kidneys into adult recipients - single center experience
  
  Alex Zendel (US)
  
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- Donor In-Situ Ischemia Time: A Novel Modifiable Risk Factor for Early Graft Dysfunction in Kidney Transplantation
  
  Paul Robertson (AU)
  
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- Comparative Assessment of Early Graft Injury Using Zero-Time Biopsy After Robotic Versus Open Kidney Transplantation
  
  MOHAMMAD SHERWANI (IN)
  
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- To preserve or to ligate? Surgical decision-making in multiple renal artery kidney transplantation: A meta-analysis
  
  Firtantyo Adi Syahputra (ID)
  
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Transplantation beyond traditional publications

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C4.10 Concurrent
Moderators: Stefan Tullius (US), Macey L. Levan (US)
- Special features: A reality check on opportunities and challenges
  
  Fadi Issa (GB)
- Social media: Are we reaching our audience and readership worldwide
  
  Jasper Iske (DE)
- Editorial fellowships: A great opportunity to be involved
  
  Melanie Wyld (AU)
- Topic highlights – Article series
  
  Camille N. Kotton (US)
- Panel discussion
  
  Discussion Period (AU)
- Panelist
  
  Khushboo Saxena (IN)

Vascularized tissue engineering and organ-on-chip platforms for transplantation and organ replacement

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C4.11 Abstract Session
- A Human Vascularized Liver Tissueoid-on-Chip Platform for Dissecting T cell- and Antibody-Mediated Allograft Rejection
  
  Vadim Jucaud (US)
  
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- Application and Mechanism of Bionic Leaf Vein Chip in the Construction of Bioartificial Kidney
  
  Zejiaxin Niu (CN)
  
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- Modeling Antibody-Mediated Endothelial Activation in a Human Vascularized Heart Wall Tissueoid-on-Chip
  
  Vadim Jucaud (US)
  
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Coffee Break / Last chance to visit Exhibit Area

Coffee Break

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM Room Hall 1-2 Coffee Break

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Plenary and Concurrent Sessions / TTS Business Meeting

Plenary Session 3

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Room Darling Harbour Plenary Session
- Towards transplantable organs: Vascularized kidney organoids for renal regeneration
  
  Ton J. Rabelink (NL)
- ABO beyond landsteiner: The next chapter in transplant histocompatibility
  
  Lori J. West (CA)
- Adverse pregnancy outcomes driven by tacrolimus blockade of IL-15-dependent differentiation of tissue resident natural killer cells
  
  Brittney Knott (US)
  
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- Immune response and safety of the AS01E-adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus prefusion F protein vaccine (adjuvanted RSVPreF3) in immunocompromised (IC) adults with lung or kidney transplant compared to non-IC adults up to 12 months post-vaccination
  
  Steve J. Chadban (AU)
  
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Expanding horizons in pancreas transplantation: Outcomes, techniques, and program development

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Room C4.9 Concurrent
Moderators: Pablo Uva (AR), Toby Coates (AU)
- Current status of pancreas transplantation: Activity and outcomes around the world
  
  Angelika C. Gruessner (US)
- Donation after circulatory death (DCD) in pancreas transplantation: Logistics, use of normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) and outcomes
  
  Joana Ferrer (ES)
- Future of pancreas transplantation in the landscape of emerging therapies
  
  Raja Kandaswamy (US)

TTS Business Meeting

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Room Darling Harbour Plenary Session

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Lunch Break / Industry Symposia / Lunch with Experts & Mentors

Industry Symposium

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Room Parkside 1&2 Industry Symposium

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Lunch and Learn Roundtable

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM Room The Gallery Experts/Mentors
- Combined liver–kidney transplantation
  
  Gomathy Narasimhan (IN)
- Designing and strengthening organ donation systems
  
  Marti Manyalich Vidal (ES)
- Genetic factors influencing transplant outcomes
  
  Stephen Alexander (AU)
- Clinical Trials in Kidney Transplantation
  
  Steve J. Chadban (AU)
- From HLA typing to epitope matching
  
  Lucy Sullivan (AU)
- Encouraging physical activity in transplant recipients with limited endurance or physical limitations
  
  Liz Schick (CH)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Roslyn B. Mannon (US)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Germaine Wong (AU)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Kate Wyburn (AU)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Medhat Askar (QA)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Macey L. Levan (US)
- Roundtable Mentor
  
  Henry Pleass (AU)
- TBD related to Uterus Transplant (ethics or donor/recipient selection or pregnancy challenge, etc)
  
  Mats Brännström (SE)
- Multi-Organ transplantation in children
  
  Tomoaki Kato (US)

SOTA, Thematic and Concurrent Sessions

Clinical Xenotransplantation has Arrived!

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room Cockle Bay 1 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Richard N. Pierson (US), Robert A. Montgomery (US)
- Understanding optimal genetic modification
  
  Peter Cowan (AU)
- Experience and immunosuppression for clinical xenotransplantation
  
  Raphael Meier (US)
- Molecular analysis in clinical xenotransplantation
  
  Carmen Lefaucheur (FR)
- Clinical xenotransplantation: A new era through the eyes of patients and families
  
  Macey L. Levan (US)

Living Organ Donation in 2026: Unified Principles, Organ-Specific Nuances

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room Cockle Bay 2 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Kwang Woong Lee (KR), Henry Pleass (AU)
- Shared framework for living donor evaluation: medical, psychosocial, and ethical core
  
  Krista Lentine (US)
- Surgical challenges and functional outcomes in living kidney donation
  
  Mireia Musquera (ES)
- Surgical challenges and functional outcomes in living liver donation
  
  DongJin Joo (KR)
- Predictive models and global registry insights to enhance donor safety
  
  Allan Massie (US)

Targeted Therapies and Tailored Dosing: The New Era in ABMR Treatment

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C3.3 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Jen Li (AU)
- Is there still a role for anti IL-6R in ABMR treatment?
  
  Roslyn B. Mannon (US)
- Is anti-CD38 the most promising agent for ABMR?
  
  Katharina Mayer (AT)
- What does monitoring AUC add compared to C-trough only?
  
  Teun van Gelder (NL)
- Model Informed precision dosing
  
  Anders Asberg (NO)

Pediatric cholestatic liver disease around the world

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C3.4-C3.5 Concurrent
Moderator: Gabriel E. Gondolesi (US)
- Biliary atresia - whats happening in Latin America. Access to KPE and transplantation
  
  Monserrat Arreola Gutierrez (MX)
- Progressive familiar intrahepatic cholestasis differences around the world and the role of medical vs. surgical therapy
  
  Mohamed Rela (IN)
- Primary sclerosing cholangiotis in children and adolescent
  
  Michael Stormon (AU)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Gender and Transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C3.6 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Maria Gomez (AE)
- Regional and gender disparities in abstracts presented at international transplant congress
  
  Maggie Kam Man Ma (HK)
- Unseen and unequal: Addressing gender and financial disparities in access to kidney transplantation
  
  Elmi Muller (ZA)
- Redefining equity: Women, access, and outcomes in liver transplantation
  
  Gomathy Narasimhan (IN)
- Designing gender-responsive transplant policies: Lessons from south and southeast Asia
  
  Yeong Hoon Kim (KR)

Evolving Ethics and Emerging Trends in Transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.1 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: David Thomson (ZA), Aviva Goldberg (CA)
- Rating ourselves on the ethics of NRP - How are we doing?
  
  Anji Wall (US)
- Social media use in transplantation
  
  Shaifali Sandal (CA)
- Ethical tissue sourcing for organoids: Why and How
  
  Katrina Bramstedt (CH)
- Pediatric prioritization
  
  Thozama Siyotula (ZA)
- Retransplantation after nonadherence (adult & children)
  
  Aaron Wightman (US)

Innovations in skin cancer in transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.5 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Angela Webster (AU), Brenda Maria Rosales (AU)
- Skin cancer risk prediction and communication
  
  Anne Cust (AU)
- Evaluation of benefits and harms of melanoma screening in chronic disease
  
  Katy Bell (AU)
- Complex surgical oncology
  
  Alexander Varey (AU)
- Novel developments in keratinocyte cancer treatments in Australia
  
  Kiarash Khosrotehrani (AU)
- Panel Discussion
  
  Discussion Period (AU)

Rise of the Machines: Maximizing donor opportunities in Thoracic Transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.6 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Miranda Paraskeva (AU), Pablo Sanchez (US)
- Debate 1: Pro normothermic regional perfusion
  
  Ashish S. Shah (US)
- Debate 1: Pro ex vivo machine perfusion
  
  Peter MacDonald (AU)
- Debate 2: Pro ex vivo perfusion
  
  Sandra Lindstedt Ingemansson (SE)
- Debate 2: Pro immediate transplant
  
  Gregory I. Snell (AU)
- Expanding the donor pool: Practical implementation of normothermic regional perfusion for DCD heart and lung recovery
  
  Irene Bello Rodriguez (ES)
- Panel Discussion
  
  Discussion Period (AU)

State of VCA- Present and Future

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.7 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Patrik Lassus (FI), Hatem Amer (US)
- Overview of VCA transplants
  
  Hatem Amer (US)
- VCA becoming part of universal health care
  
  David Leonard (GB)
- Is VCA reconstructive surgery or transplantation
  
  Linda C. Cendales (US)
- Challenges and opportunities for VCA in the global south
  
  Subramania Iyer (IN)
- Standardizing outcomes in VCA: Are we ready for a SONG or for COVER
  
  Allison Jaure (AU)

Next-Generation Transplantation: Regenerative Medicine Breakthroughs

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.8 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Giuseppe Orlando (US)
- The bioartificial kidney: Lessons learned and the road ahead
  
  William Fissell (CA)
- Organoids, organs-on-a-chip, and the path to organ manufacturing
  
  Sean Vincent Murphy (US)
- Artificial heart: A life-saving bridge to transplant
  
  Francisco Arabia (US)

Evolving strategies in intestinal and multivisceral transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.9 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Helen Evans (NZ), Rajith Amaratunga (AU)
- Isolated intestine transplantation for short gut syndrome in the era of GLP-2 agonist
  
  Yaron Avitzur (CA)
- Novel immunosuppression in intestine transplantation
  
  Jennifer Garcia (US)
- Pros and cons of protocol biopsy and stoma
  
  Jonathan Hind (AU)

Organ donation following MAID (VAD/euthanasia)

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.11 Concurrent
Moderator: Helen Opdam (AU)
- Panelist representing Canada
  
  Matthew Weiss (CA)
- Panelist representing Australia
  
  Wade Stedman (AU)

Closing Plenary

Closing Plenary

3:20 PM – 4:30 PM Room Parkside 1&2 Plenary Session
- Gene and cell therapy in transplantation
  
  Maria Grazia Roncarolo (US)
- From donor to recipient: Microbiome signatures as predictors of post-transplant complications
  
  Olivia Smibert (AU)