2020 American Transplant Congress

May 30-June 1, 2020

ATC Virtual Congress
Live Broadcast Dates: May 30 - June 1, 2020
OnDemand Access: May 30, 2020 - June 4, 2021

Originally scheduled to take place in Philadelphia, this became a Virtual Congress due to COVID-19. For more information, visit The Official ATC Congress site.

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

3:30pm-4:00pm: Noninvasive Detection of Subclinical Rejection in Urine RNA

K. S. Keslar¹, D. Margeta¹, J. J. Friedewald², M. Abecassis², R. B. Mannon³, P. S. Heeger⁴, R. L. Fairchild¹

Poster Session D: Biomarkers, Immune Assessment and Clinical Outcomes • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Noninvasive Genotyping of Donor’s HLA in Kidney Transplant Patients by Target Capture Sequencing

T. Jiang, L. Shu, F. Liu, H. Liu, J. Ge

Poster Session D: Non-Organ Specific: Pharmacogenomics / Pharmacokinetics • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion of Marginal Liver Grafts Rapidly Stimulates Release of Graft-Derived Exosomes and Markedly Decreases the Inflammatory Pathways Induced at Early Times after Transplant Reperfusion

K. E. Brown¹, K. S. Keslar¹, D. Margeta¹, Q. Liu², A. Simioni², L. Del Angel Diaz², W. M. Baldwin¹, R. L. Fairchild¹, C. Quintini²

Poster Session D: Non-Organ Specific: Organ Preservation/Ischemia Reperfusion Injury • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Extended Criteria Donor Livers: Identification of Protein Biomarkers Predictive of Graft Viability and Post-Transplant Complications

L. L. Wallace¹, J. Attard¹, Y. Boteon¹, R. Laing¹, J. Yu², T. Perera³, D. Mirza³, H. Mergental³, S. Afford¹

Poster Session B: Biomarker Discovery and Immune Modulation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Genetically Modified Pig Livers with Human Blood

D. Detelich¹, T. M. Coe², C. G. Rickert², C. Carroll², N. Serifis², R. Matheson², I. Rosales², W. Qin³, Y. Kan³, J. Layer³, M. Youd³, W. Westlin³, S. Kimura², A. Azimzadeh², L. Yang³, J. F. Markmann²

Poster Session A: Xenotransplantation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Rat Liver: Comparing Two Perfusion Methods

F. Zhou, M. Xu, O. Ahmed, G. A. Upadhya, Y. Lin, W. C. Chapman

Poster Session D: Ischemia Reperfusion & Organ Rehabilitation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Novel Biomarkers for Post-Transplant Recurrent IgA Nephropathy

Y. Caliskan¹, B. Dirim², E. Aksoy², R. Ouseph¹, Y. Ozluk³, H. Randall⁴, F. Savran Oguz⁵, A. Turkmen², M. S. Sever², K. Lentine¹

Poster Session D: Biomarkers, Immune Assessment and Clinical Outcomes • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Novel Flow-Based Assay to Detect Allospecific T Cells in Transplantation Study

N. Tanimine¹, B. E. Burrel², J. Pardo², C. Rickert³, K. M. Lee³, K. Deng³, N. Feeney³, C. Leguern³, J. F. Markmann³

Poster Session A: Biomarker Discovery and Immune Modulation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Novel Insights Into High Alloantibody Production in CCR5 KO Recipient Mice

J. L. Han¹, J. M. Zimmerer², Q. Zeng³, B. A. Ringwald¹, C. K. Breuer³, G. L. Bumgardner²

Poster Session D: Lymphocyte Biology: Signaling, Co-Stimulation, Regulation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Novel Mechanism of Immune Evasion by Human Neonatal Cardiac Progenitor Cells Recovers Ailing Myocardium in Rat Myocardial Infarct Model

M. Gunasekaran, R. Mishra, S. Sharma, P. Saha, L. Wang, M. Yasir Arfat, L. Davidson, X. Fu, A. Shah, M. Abdullah, D. Li, S. Kaushal

Poster Session D: Cellular Therapies, Tissue Engineering / Regenerative Medicine • Virtual