DATE: Today through Wednesday, May 5, 2010
PLACE: San Diego Convention Center, 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA
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DETAILS: The world's most renowned experts have gathered to share knowledge and to speak in-depth about the latest cutting-edge topics in the field of transplantation science and medicine. The 10th annual American Transplant Congress 2010 (ATC), a joint meeting sponsored by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST), is the premiere meeting and conference in transplantation medicine and science. Leading experts are presenting the most important data and research, via hundreds of oral and poster presentations, interactive sessions and State-of-the-Art Addresses. These discoveries are among the most urgent and crucial in the field.
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State-of-the-Art Addresses are:
A focus on "hot" topics will spotlight the conference. A fun, interactive session on May 3rd "Transplant Jeopardy: Essential Infectious Disease," created to mimic the television game show has top doctors (Jeffrey Crippin MD, Richard Freeman MD, and Barbara Murphy MD) solving clinical challenges.
Additional notable presentations throughout the meeting include "Towards Tolerance in Transplantation: Who are the New Players?" "Can a Regulated System for Living Donor Incentives Work?" and "Calcineurin Inhibitors: Love 'em or Leave 'em".
ATC Highlights:
Infectious Diseases
"What's Hot, What's New?"
Stem & Islet Cells
FDA Drug Developments
Ethics, Economics & Regulatory Issues
Clinical Trials
NanoMedicine
Donation After Cardiac Death
Expanded Criteria Donors
National Kidney Paired Donations
Tissue Engineering
Organ Allocation Worldwide
Cancer Pathogenesis
Cardiac Risks
Visit www.atcmeeting.org/2010 for a complete meeting schedule, key speakers, information, and meeting times. Interviews can be arranged onsite. Please contact Steven Schiff for more information, [email protected], or 610-220-5120.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 3/
-- Shimon Sakaguchi, MD, Ph.D., Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University, speaking today, May 3rd at 10:00 a.m. on "Regulatory T Cells for Immunological Tolerance". -- Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., FRS, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator addressing the latest developments in "Innate and Adaptive Immunity" on May 5th( )at 10:00 a.m.
SOURCE American Transplant Congress 2010
