Program Outline

Key Dates

6 May 2008
Notification of Acceptances

26 May 2008
Early Registration Cut-off Date

9 June 2008
Late breaking Abstract Submission Date

2 July 2008
Pre & Post Congress Tours

2 July 2008
Accommodation Bookings

2 July 2008
Social Program Bookings

2 July 2008
Congress Day Tours

9-10 August 2008
Postgraduate Weekend Courses

10-14 August 2008
Congress Opens

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Monday 11 August	Tuesday 12 August	Wednesday 13 August	Thursday 14 August
Renal 1 Chronic allograft dysfunction – prediction, diagnosis, monitoring and management	Renal 2 Overcoming HLA and ABO antibodies	Renal 3 Premature vascular death with a functioning graft	Renal 4 Living donor transplantation
Liver 1 HCV and liver transplantation	Liver 2 Liver malignancy and liver transplantation	Liver 3 Liver transplant – live donation	Liver 4 Long term outcomes in liver transplantation
Immunosuppression 1 The role of non T-cell specifi c immunosupression	Immunosuppression 2 New immunosuppressive drugs in development	Immunosuppression 3 Immunosuppressive protocols to improve long term outcomes	Immunosuppression 4 Update on new immunosuppressive trials in transplantation
Cardiothoracic 1 Cardiothoracic donor management in the 21st Century	Cardiothoracic 2 Chronic rejection/allograft dysfunction	Cardiothoracic 3 New technology in heart and lung transplantation	Cardiothoracic 4 mTOR inhibitors in thoracic transplantation
Immunobiology 1 The links between innate and adaptive immunity in transplant rejection	Immunobiology 2 Manipulating regulatory pathways to control the immune response	Immunobiology 3 Role of Endothelium and Angiogenesis in graft outcomes	Immunobiology 4 Local control of immune activation
Pancreas 1 What is the optimal use of the donor pancreas?	Islets 1 Overcoming impediments to long term islet graft survival	Pancreas 2 Long term outcomes in pancreas transplantation	Islets 2 Novel treatment paradigms for islet transplantation
Transplantation in Emerging Economics	Organ Donation and Procurement 1 Advances in organ procurement	Organ Donation and Procurement 2 Improving hospital performance in deceased donor organ donation	Ethics 1 Ethical Issues in Donation and Transplantation
Paeds 1 Long term care of paediatric transplant patient	Paeds 2 Maximising long term graft survival	Infectious Diseases 1 Late onset infectious diseases following solid organ and haematopoietic transplantation	Infectious Diseases 2 Strategies for diagnosis of infection in the transplant patient
Cornea 1 Corneal transplantation	Intestine 1 Intestinal transplantation – update on an emerging therapy	Stem Cells 1 Tissue repair using mesenchymal, haematopoietic and endothelial progenitor cells	Stem Cells 2 Multipotent adult stem cells – potential for tissue repair
Xeno 1 Islet cell Xenotransplants – is this the fi rst to the clinic?	Bone Marrow 1 Separating graft versus host from graft versus malignancy	Xeno 2 Genetic modifi cations that improve xenograft survival	Histocompatibility Immune mechanisms and treatment strategies in the highly sensitised patient

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XXII International Congress of the Transplantation Society