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: Initial Experience of the First 13 Cases of Purely Laparoscopic Living Donor Right Hepatectomy

H. Choi¹, C. Seo¹, J. Ahn¹, G. Na², Y. You¹

Poster Session C: Liver: Living Donors and Partial Grafts • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Integrated Multicohort Analysis of Transcriptome Profiles Identifies Blood Gene Signature to Distinguish Rejection from Infection in Patients with Solid Organ Transplants

L. C. Murphy, A. Rao, M. Donato, P. Khatri

Poster Session A: Biomarker Discovery and Immune Modulation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Intra-Lymph Node Injection of Microparticles Reprograms the Laminin Stromal Network to Prolong Allograft Survival

C. M. Paluskievicz¹, Y. Xiong¹, W. Piao¹, M. Willson-Shirkey¹, H. Eppler², C. M. Jewell², J. S. Bromberg¹

Poster Session B: Tolerance / Immune Deviation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Intra-Lymph Node Injection of Rapamycin-Alloantigen Microparticles Regulates Dendritic Cell Antigen Presentation

C. M. Paluskievicz¹, Y. Xiong¹, W. Piao¹, M. Willson-Shirkey¹, H. Eppler², C. M. Jewell², J. S. Bromberg¹

Poster Session B: Antigen Presentation / Allorecognition / Dendritic Cells • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Intraoperative Oxygen Delivery and Acute Kidney Injury after Liver Transplantation

W. Kim, H. Lee, H. Yoon, K. Suh

Poster Session C: Liver - Kidney Issues in Liver Transplantation • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Introduction of Preemptive Pharmacogenomic Testing in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Early Evaluation of the Clinical Impact of Genomic Guided Tacrolimus Dosing

G. Girone¹, V. Do¹, K. Belfield¹, R. Pulk¹, E. Cohen¹, E. Marin²

Poster Session C: Late Breaking • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Invasive Aspergillosis in Lung Transplant Recipients with Aspergillus Colonization Beyond One Year after Transplant

S. Davoudi, A. Pérez-Cortés Villalobos, T. Martinu, J. Tikkanen, D. Kumar, A. Humar, L. G. Singer, S. Keshavjee, S. Husain

Poster Session A: All Infections (Excluding Kidney & Viral Hepatitis) • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Investigating the 6-Month Effects of the UNOS Allocation System Changes on the Post Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Amyloidosis

P. Banankhah¹, G. Liu¹, J. Nattiv¹, C. Lum², A. Salimbangon³, A. Wolfson⁴, E. DePasquale¹, R. Chand⁵, P. Genyk¹, P. Kingsford¹, J. Li¹, D. Vucicevic⁶, A. Vaidya¹, K. Pandya¹, J. Rahman¹, M. Fong¹, L. Grazette¹, A. Kiankhooy¹, S. Hashmi¹, S. Nuno¹, J. Pizula¹, D. Miklin¹, A. E. Lee¹, K. Yang¹, S. Shah¹

Poster Session C: Heart and VADs: All Topics • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Investigating the 6-Month Effects of the UNOS Allocation System Changes on the Post Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

P. Banankhah¹, C. Lum², A. Salimbangon³, G. Liu¹, A. Wolfson⁴, E. DePasquale¹, R. Chand⁵, P. Genyk¹, P. Kingsford¹, J. Li¹, D. Vucicevic⁶, A. Vaidya¹, K. Pandya¹, J. Rahman¹, M. Fong¹, L. Grazette¹, J. Nattiv¹, S. Hashmi¹, S. Nuno¹, J. Pizula¹, A. Lee¹, K. Yang¹, S. Shah¹

Poster Session C: Heart and VADs: All Topics • Virtual

3:30pm-4:00pm: Investigation of Il35 Expressing Regulatory B Cells in Tolerance of Kidney Transplantation

J. A. Sullivan, J. H. Fechner, E. Jankowska-Gan, W. J. Burlingham, D. B. Kaufman

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