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: Determinants of Kidney Transplant Candidates’ Willingness to Accept Deceased Donor Organ Intervention Research: A Conjoint Analysis

E. Gordon¹, P. Reese², J. Lee¹, L. Krishnamurthi¹, R. Veatch³, R. Knight⁴, P. T. Conway⁴, S. Dunn⁵, P. Abt²

Poster Session C: Non-Organ Specific: Public Policy & Allocation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Determination of Programmed Cell Death Protein 1 (PD1) by Flow Cytometry, a Possible Follow-Up Tool in Renal Transplantation of High Immune Risk

M. Carmona-Escamilla¹, M. Fonseca², J. Prieto Chávez³, L. Arriaga⁴, F. Oviendo⁵, S. , Hernández-Mendoza SA², J. Alberu⁶, G. Queipo²

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

3:30pm-4:00pm: Determining Prognostic Factors of Longitudinal Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Curves Using Machine Learning Techniques

P. Bernhardt, J. Han, M. Kormaksson, J. Pascual, S. Berger, S. Chadban, C. Legendre, R. Oberbauer, F. Oppenheimer, C. Sommerer, A. Gawai, H. Tedesco

Poster Session A: Kidney Immunosuppression: Novel Regimens and Drug Minimization • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Detrimental Effects of Donor Brain Death on Tolerance Induction May be Eliminated by Delaying Mixed Chimerism in Non-Human Primates

J. M. O¹, W. Sommer², K. Ahrens¹, P. Patel¹, D. Becerra¹, J. Morrissette¹, T. Costa¹, K. Pruner¹, J. Paster¹, A. Bean¹, A. Dehnadi¹, I. Hanekamp¹, I. Rosales¹, R. Smith¹, R. Colvin¹, G. Benichou¹, J. Allan³, T. Kawai¹, J. Madsen⁴

Poster Session D: Tolerance / Immune Deviation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Developing a Patient Specific Search of Heart Transplant Programs: Feedback from Heart Transplant Candidates and Recipients

W. T. McKinney¹, M. J. Bruin², C. R. Schaffhausen¹, S. Chu², J. Synder³, C. M. Martin⁴, T. Alexy⁴, B. L. Kasiske⁵, A. K. Israni¹

Poster Session D: Non-Organ Specific: Disparities to Outcome and Access to Healthcare • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Development and Cell Surface Testing of a Novel Nanofiber Technology for Targeted Delivery of Therapeutic Regulatory T Cells

J. M. Mathew¹, S. Lee², Y. Sambandam¹, L. A. Fraser², T. D. Clemons², A. Kolberg², J. He¹, L. C. Palmer², M. T. McClendon², Z. J. Zhang¹, J. R. Leventhal¹, S. I. Stupp², L. Gallon¹

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

3:30pm-4:00pm: Development and Characterization of Decellularized Whole Human Livers for Increasing Donor Pool

A. Acun, R. Oganesyan, B. E. Uygun

Poster Session D: Late Breaking • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Development and Impact of DSA after Lung Transplant

M. Henderson¹, G. Morris², C. Burt¹, A. Feist¹, J. Kozuch¹, E. Schonhoft³, G. Yung³, T. Floreth³, K. Afshar³, E. Golts⁴, M. Mariski¹

Poster Session C: Lung: All Topics • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Development of a Novel Multidrug Combination to Defat Steatotic Rat Liver via Normothermic Machine Perfusion

M. Xu¹, F. Zhou¹, O. Ahmed¹, G. Upadhya¹, J. Jia¹, C. Lee¹, J. Xing¹, L. Ye¹, S. Shim¹, Z. Zhang¹, K. Byrnes², B. Wong¹, J. Kim¹, Y. Lin¹, W. Chapman¹

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

3:30pm-4:00pm: Development of a Split Liver Machine Perfusion Protocol to Provide Comparative Controls in Assessing Therapeutic Interventions

J. A. Attard¹, L. Wallace¹, Y. Boteon¹, V. Ronca¹, D. Osei-Bordom¹, Y. Oo¹, H. Mergental², D. Mirza², S. Afford¹

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