Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Department of Medical Biophysics, Research at UHN
Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
Monday, May 1, 2023 – 13:00-14:00
From survive to thrive: the power of mentorship
Lorna Marson
Professor of Transplant Surgery and Honorary Consultant Transplant Surgeon
Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 – 13:00-14:00
Engineered T cells in transplantation
Megan Levings
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital,
Director, Childhood Diseases Research Theme
Academic Affiliations
Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine,
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Pre-Meeting Workshop Speakers
Emerging 'Omics' and machine learning techniques: the next frontier in transplant research
Sunday, April 30 from 13:00-15:00
Translational Immunology
Juliet Emamauelle, United States
Single-cell profiling of healthy human kidney reveals features of sex-based transcriptional programs and tissue-specific immunity
Ana Konvalinka, Canada
Cite sequencing
Sören Lukassen, Germany
Confirmed Session Speakers
MAb-decorated NPs to target cells with specific surface expression of markers
Reza Abdi, United States
Commensal immune responses and transplantation
Maria-Luisa Alegre, United States
Pregnancy induced humoral sensitization and T cell tolerance
Anita S. Chong, United States
Interactions between sex and microbiome responses
Jayne Danska, Canada
Generating thymus organoids to regenerate T cell differentiation
Matthieu Giraud, France
Latest insights of organoids
Martin Hoogduijn, Netherlands
Alveolar macrophages in lung transplantation
Stephen Juvet, Canada
Trained immunity in organ transplantation
Jordi Ochando, United States
DarTregs in liver transplantation
Qizhi Tang, United States
Induction of Immune Tolerance by Cell-Therapy Using Inducible Suppressive T Cells