2015 American Transplant Congress

May 2-6, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Monday, May 4, 2015

4:24pm-4:36pm: Socioeconomic Determinants of Racial Disparities in Access to Preemptive Live Donor Kidney Transplantation

T. Purnell, X. Luo, A. Massie, D. Crews, L. Cooper, D. Segev.

Concurrent Session: Disparities in Healthcare Access • Room 115-C

4:24pm-4:36pm: The Extended Toronto Criteria for Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. A Validation Study

G. Sapisochin, N. Goldaracena, J. Laurence, M. Dib, A. Barbas, A. Ghanekar, L. Lilly, E. Renner, M. Selzner, M. Cattral, I. McGilvray, D. Grant, P. Greig.

Concurrent Session: Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma • Room 113-BC

4:24pm-4:36pm: TIM-4 Identifies IL-17 Expressing Pro-Inflammatory Be-17 Cells That Promote Allograft Rejection

Q. Ding, K. Mohib, D. Rothstein.

Concurrent Session: B Cells: New Insights from Animal Models • Room 119-A

4:24pm-4:36pm: Virus Induced CD28 Down-Regulation as a Potential Driver of Costimulation Blockade Resistant Rejection

D. Mou,¹ J. Espinosa,¹ L. Stempora,² J. Kwun,² N. Iwakoshi,¹ A. Kirk.²

Concurrent Session: Mechanisms of Resistance To Costimulatory Blockade • Room 122-AB

4:36pm-4:48pm: A Tool to Estimate Probability of Outcomes on the Liver Transplant Waiting List

A. Hart,^1,2 D. Schladt,¹ J. Zeglin,¹ N. Salkowski,¹ S. Leppke,¹ W. Kim,^1,3 J. Lake,^1,4 A. Israni,¹ B. Kasiske,¹ J. Snyder.¹

Concurrent Session: Donor and Recipient Optimization for Liver Transplant • Room 115-AB

4:36pm-4:48pm: Analysis of In-Vitro Effects of Immunosuppression on NK Cell Subsets in the Presence of Cytomegalovirus

S. Keshwani, D. Kumar, S. Han, S. Husain, V. Ferreira, P. Ashton, A. Humar.

Concurrent Session: Viral Infections (CMV, HBV, HCV, HIV, Norovirus) • Room 121-AB

4:36pm-4:48pm: CFZ533: Assessment of Immunomodulatory Activity Following Single Doses of a Novel Anti-CD40 mAb in Healthy Volunteers

A. Slade,¹ J. Doucet,² P. Koo,¹ P. Espie,² J. Rush,² C. Tomek,³ J. Klupp.²

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Novel Agents • Terrace I-III

4:36pm-4:48pm: Controlling Alloreactive B Cell Responses in Sensitized Recipients With CTLA-4Ig

J. Chen,¹ Q. Wang,¹ D. Yin,¹ V. Vu,¹ R. Sciammas,² A. Chong.¹

Concurrent Session: B Cells: New Insights from Animal Models • Room 119-A

4:36pm-4:48pm: Enhanced Requirement for TNF Signaling on Low Affinity Memory CD8+ T Cells During Heterologous Immunity

S. Krummey,¹ C.-W. Chen,¹ D. Liu,¹ M. Wagener,¹ B. Evavold,² C. Larsen,¹ M. Ford.¹

Concurrent Session: Mechanisms of Resistance To Costimulatory Blockade • Room 122-AB

4:36pm-4:48pm: Germinal Centre Autoimmunity Mediates Progression of Allograft Vasculopathy, With Essential Help Provided By T Follicular Cells

M. Qureshi, R. Motallebzadeh, M. Chhabra, M. Negus, S. Rehakova, E. Bolton, J. Bradley, G. Pettigrew.

Concurrent Session: T Cell Help and Alloimmunity • Room 118-C