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Sunday, September 20, 2026

Pediatric 1: Size matters - Unique challenges in paediatric transplantation

8:00 AM – 9:10 AM Room C3.6 Satellite Symposium
Moderator: Siah Kim (AU)

Pediatric 2: Vaccination in the post COVID world

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C3.6 Satellite Symposium
- Transplanting the unvaccinated child
  
  Chanel Prestidge (NZ)

Pediatric 3: Novel therapies in kids - beyond the hype

10:45 AM – 11:40 AM Room C3.6 Satellite Symposium
Moderator: Stephen Alexander (AU)

Pediatric 4: Tolerance and the future

11:40 AM – 1:00 PM Room C3.6 Satellite Symposium
Moderator: Anette Melk (DE)
- A wish list for the future - a discussion with children and carers
  
  Nicole Jane Scholes-Robertson (AU)

TID 1: Pushing the boundaries and unexpected transmissions

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Room C4.4 Satellite Symposium
Moderators: Benjamin Teh (AU), Cameron Wolfe (US)

TID 2: Case based discussion: recipient syndromes- is it a DDI?

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Room C4.4 Satellite Symposium
Moderator / Panelists: Camille N. Kotton (US), Helen Opdam (AU)

TID 3: Challenging bugs in vulnerable hosts: Diagnosis, treatment and prevention

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Room C4.4 Satellite Symposium
Moderators: Monica Slavin (AU), Ban Hock Tan (SG)

TID 4: Controversies (Cases and discussion panel in haematologic malignancy)

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.4 Satellite Symposium
Moderator / Panelists: Wanessa T. Clemente (BR), Matthew Roberts (AU)

PGC Clinical 1 - Transplant state of the art

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Room Cockle Bay 1 Post-Graduate Course
Moderators: Lucino Bahena Carrera (MX), Dan Harvey (GB)

PGC Clinical 2 - Recipients

9:40 AM – 11:00 AM Room Cockle Bay 1 Post-Graduate Course
Moderators: Lachlan McMichael (AU), Shaifali Sandal (CA)

PGC Clinical 3 - Contemporary issues in transplantation and obesity management

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Room Cockle Bay 1 Post-Graduate Course
Moderator: Khushboo Saxena (IN)

PGC Basic 1 - What's hot in transplantation?

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Room Cockle Bay 2 Post-Graduate Course
Moderator: Angus Thomson (US)

PGC Basic 2 - Allorecognition and tolerance

9:40 AM – 11:00 AM Room Cockle Bay 2 Post-Graduate Course
Moderators: Sarah Short (GB), Gavin Pettigrew (GB)

PGC Basic 3 - Translational science

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Room Cockle Bay 2 Post-Graduate Course
Moderators: Jiang Liu (HK), Jen Li (AU)

Global nursing and allied health part 1: Organ donation

8:00 AM – 10:15 AM Room C3.3 Satellite Symposium
Moderators: Estephan Arredondo (ES), Anne Floden (SE)

WIT part 1: Scientific methods in sex/gender research

8:45 AM – 11:00 AM Room C4.5 Satellite Symposium
Moderators: Anita Chong (US), Anette Melk (DE)

WIT part 2: Intersectionality, leadership, and policy impact

11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Room C4.5 Satellite Symposium
Moderators: Yolanda Becker (US), Bethany J. Foster (CA)

Global nursing and allied health part 2: Transplantation

10:45 AM – 1:00 PM Room C3.3 Satellite Symposium
Moderators: Claire West (AU), Bronwyn Levvey (AU)

From principles to practice: Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in transplantation

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Room C4.5 Satellite Symposium
Facilitators: Nazia Selzner (CA), Cynthia Tsien (CA)

Plenary Session 1 (with Starzl and Kanoria Awards)

4:45 PM – 6:30 PM Room Darling Harbour Plenary Session
- Artificial intelligence in medicine
  
  Karin Verspoor (AU)

Monday, September 21, 2026

Local/Regional insights for global organ donation advancement

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.9 Concurrent
Facilitators: Gabriel E. Gondolesi (US), Chloë Ballesté Delpierre (ES)

Personalizing immunosuppression in liver transplantation: From microbiome to malignancy

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.1 Concurrent
- Personalizing IS in complex liver transplant cases: Autoimmune disease, NASH, elderly recipients
  
  Marina Berenguer (ES)
- Tacrolimus intrapatient variability in solid organ transplantation
  
  Juhan Lee (KR)

Vasculopathy: A tale of three organs

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.6 Concurrent
- What should we continue to learn from renal allograft pathology
  
  Mariam Alexander (US)

Plenary Session 2 on Making Xenotransplantation Work for Humanity!

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM Room Darling Harbour Plenary Session
Facilitators: Peter Cowan (AU), Macey L. Levan (US)

Beyond survival: Addressing mental health in transplantation

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM Room C4.9 Concurrent

Dedicated donor care units: Centralized donor transfer and outcome optimization

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM Room C4.10 Concurrent
Moderator / Panelists: David Thomson (ZA), Dan Harvey (GB)

Artificial intelligence and machine learning in transplantation: From pathology to predictive clinical decision support

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room C3.6 Abstract Session

DCD: Controlled and uncontrolled—Where are we going?

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room C4.4 Concurrent
Facilitator: Kenneth J. Woodside (US)
- Role of ICU physicians
  
  Sara Alcantara Carmona (ES)
- Question Period
  
  Discussion Period (AU)

The -omic era in allograft pathology

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room C4.8 Concurrent
- Does metabolic phenotype in the kidney affect transplant outcome?
  
  Ana Konvalinka (CA)
- Endogenous peptides in T cell allorecognition and beyond – Lessons from preclinical models
  
  Alexandra Sharland (AU)

Transplantation journals: Updates and opportunities

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room C4.9 Concurrent
Moderators: Stefan Tullius (US), Fadi Issa (GB)

Lunch and Learn Roundtable

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM Room The Gallery Experts/Mentors

Innovating the Pathway: Allied Health Contributions to Advancing Organ Donation and Transplantation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.7 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Anne Floden (SE)

Bridging Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine: Enhancing Graft Viability and Exploring Stem Cell-Islet Immunotherapies in Diabetes

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C3.6 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Ahmer Mohammad Hameed (AU)

Minimal Invasive Transplantation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.4 SOTA/Thematic Session

Donor Evaluation and Optimization: Bridging Safety and Organ Utilization

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.8 SOTA/Thematic Session

Using Technology to optimize outcomes of Liver Transplantation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.5 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Shantanu Bhattacharya (AU)

Precision Immune Engineering in Kidney Transplantation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room Cockle Bay 1 SOTA/Thematic Session

Advancing Uterus Transplantation: Global Practices, Innovations, and Program Development

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.6 SOTA/Thematic Session

Harnessing the Power of Genetics in Pediatric Transplantation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.11 SOTA/Thematic Session

How to combat transplant tourism

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C3.4-C3.5 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Thomas F. Müller (CH)

Senotherapy in transplantation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C3.3 SOTA/Thematic Session

Bridging Systems, Scaling Access: Asia-Pacific Leadership in Transplantation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room Cockle Bay 2 SOTA/Thematic Session

The mentorship mosaic: Fostering growth in transplant training and practice

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.1 Concurrent
Moderators: Sarah Tsou (US), Natasha Rogers (AU)

Building high-performing transplant registries: Global consensus recommendations and a practical maturity framework

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.9 Concurrent
Moderator / Panelist: Sang Joseph Kim (CA)

From patient to planet: The global essential standards as a framework for transformative change in transplantation

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Room C4.4 SOTA/Thematic Session
Facilitator: John J. Fung (US)

Advancing ABO histocompatibility: Needs and solutions

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Room C3.6 Concurrent
- ABO antigens and antibodies: Updating old dogmas
  
  Anne Halpin (CA)
- ABO incompatible kidney transplantation, strategies and successes
  
  Marta Crespo Barrio (ES)

Expanding donor access: The impact of ECMO in thoracic transplantation a TTS/ISHLT Conjunct Session

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Room C4.2 Concurrent
Moderators: Pablo Sanchez (US), Raj Ramanan (US)
- The role of NRP and machine perfusion in cardiothoracic transplantation
  
  Sandra Lindstedt Ingemansson (SE)
- Complex decisions: Ethical dilemmas of ECMO, DCD and NRP donors
  
  Emily Granger (AU)

Sex, cancer, and the graft: What women need most from transplant care

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room C3.3 Concurrent

Transplant without borders: Collaborative solutions for global kidney care

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room C3.4-C3.5 Concurrent

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Pediatric treatments on the Horizon

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.10 Concurrent
- Partial heart transplant in children
  
  Taufiek Konrad Rajab (US)
- Regulatory cell therapy for solid organ transplantation
  
  Fadi Issa (GB)

Delivering value in liver transplantation: Innovation, resources, and the future of care

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.1 Concurrent
- Implementing change and managing resources: Can we do both?
  
  Alfred Kow (SG)

TTS President's Plenary

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM Room Darling Harbour Plenary Session
- Beyond technology: Building a collaborative societal ecosystem for transplantation (Reflections from China's transplant reform)
  
  Haibo Wang (CN)
- Presidential address
  
  John J. Fung (US)

Optimizing and utilizing old organ donors

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room C4.9 Concurrent

Global Transplantation: The GODT Report Analyzes Activities Around the World

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room C4.8 Concurrent
Moderator: Nadey Hakim (GB)
- Global observatory on donation and transplantation (GODT)
  
  Beatriz Domínguez-Gil (ES)
- Global donation and transplantation activities. An assessment of 2024 GODT data
  
  Friederike Martin (DE)

The journey to clinical xenotransplantation

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room C4.10 Concurrent

Lunch and Learn Roundtable

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM Room The Gallery Experts/Mentors

Deceased Donation Research: Findings and Future Directions

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C3.4-C3.5 SOTA/Thematic Session
Facilitator: Dominique Martin (AU)

Targeting immune cell metabolism to control alloimmunity

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room Cockle Bay 2 SOTA/Thematic Session

Artificial intelligence (AI) in Transplant Education

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.7 SOTA/Thematic Session

Transplanting Against the Antibody Odds

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.4 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Ankit Sharma (AU)

Redefining Surgical Excellence: Metrics, Equity, and Global Perspectives

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C3.3 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Animesh Singla (AU)

Biology and beyond: Multiple dimensions of transplantation

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.1 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Yolanda Becker (US), Philip O'Connell (AU)

Obesity Management in Transplantation: Current Evidence and Practical Approaches

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.11 SOTA/Thematic Session

Pluripotent stem cells and regenerative medicine: the future of transplantation?

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C3.6 SOTA/Thematic Session

Transplant Oncology: Peering Over the Horizon

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.9 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Kwang Woong Lee (KR)

Honouring voices, changing systems: Indigenous leadership in transplant equity

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.6 SOTA/Thematic Session

Global collaboration in organ transplantation: Advancing ethical access, innovation, and sustainability

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.8 Concurrent

Emerging infectious diseases in transplant ID

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.5 Concurrent

Life after transplant: Supporting movement, confidence, and long-term recovery across all levels of ability (WTGF)

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room C4.2 Concurrent

ISOT: Redefining organ transplantation in resource-limited settings: Access, affordability, and global leadership from India - Part 1

1:30 PM – 3:05 PM Room C4.10 Concurrent
Moderators: Ravi Mohanka (IN), Swarnalatha Guditi (IN), Divyesh Engineer (IN), Amit Pasari (IN), Abi Abraham (IN), Amol Bhawane (IN), Manish Balwani (IN), Feroz Aziz (IN)

Solving immune problems for the life of the allograft

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Room C4.7 Concurrent
- Single cell spatial technologies in kidney allograft pathology- inflammation, fibrosis and beyond
  
  Mariam Alexander (US)
- Direct and indirect allorecognition – more alike than we thought?
  
  Gavin Pettigrew (GB)

TTS-ISN: Pregnancy in renal transplant recipients - Outcomes, barriers, and clinical management

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Room C4.9 Concurrent
- The pregnancy after renal transplantation OUTcomes registry (PARTOUT) in the Netherlands with granular data
  
  Margriet de Jong (NL)
- Assessing risk and overcoming barriers in pregnancy after kidney transplantation
  
  Shilpanjali Jesudason (AU)

ISOT: Redefining organ transplantation in resource-limited settings: Access, affordability, and global leadership from India - Part 2

3:35 PM – 6:10 PM Room C4.10 Concurrent
Moderators: Shruti Tapiawala (IN), Gireesh MS (IN), Mohan Patel (IN), Raj Kanwar Yadav (IN), Dhananjaya KL (IN), Pranjal Kashiv (IN), Ashish Sharma (IN), Narayan Prasad (IN), Vikas Jain (IN), Sourabh Sharma (IN), Pankaj Shah (IN)

Multidisciplinary: Leveraging shared infrastructure for hematopoietic stem cell and solid organ transplantation

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room C4.6 Concurrent

Approaching and navigating difficult conversations with transplant patients

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Room C4.7 Concurrent

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Metabolic dysfunction and liver transplantation

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C4.1 Concurrent
- Getting the right patients to transplant: Patient selection, pre-transplant evaluation, and organ allocation in MAFLD
  
  Kymberly Watt (US)
- Optimising outcomes in patients with obesity after transplant: lifestyle modification, bariatric surgery or lifelong GLP1 therapy?
  
  Marina Berenguer (ES)

Key components of an ideal high volume transplant program setup: A global surgical perspective

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Room C3.6 Concurrent

From allorecognition to allocation: Moving toward more individualized kidney transplant matching

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C4.1 Concurrent

Transplantation beyond traditional publications

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Room C4.10 Concurrent
Moderators: Stefan Tullius (US), Macey L. Levan (US)

Plenary Session 3

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Room Darling Harbour Plenary Session
- Towards transplantable organs: Vascularized kidney organoids for renal regeneration
  
  Ton J. Rabelink (NL)
- ABO beyond landsteiner: The next chapter in transplant histocompatibility
  
  Lori J. West (CA)

Expanding horizons in pancreas transplantation: Outcomes, techniques, and program development

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Room C4.9 Concurrent
Moderators: Pablo Uva (AR), Toby Coates (AU)

CMV and BK virus in transplant recipients: Pearls from the guidelines and emerging frontiers

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Room C4.8 Concurrent
Moderators: Wanessa T. Clemente (BR), Jeremy Chapman (AU)

Lunch and Learn Roundtable

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM Room The Gallery Experts/Mentors

Next-Generation Transplantation: Regenerative Medicine Breakthroughs

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.8 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Giuseppe Orlando (US)

Targeted Therapies and Tailored Dosing: The New Era in ABMR Treatment

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C3.3 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Jen Li (AU)

Clinical Xenotransplantation has Arrived!

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room Cockle Bay 1 SOTA/Thematic Session

Rise of the Machines: Maximizing donor opportunities in Thoracic Transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.6 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderator: Pablo Sanchez (US)

State of VCA- Present and Future

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.7 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Patrik Lassus (FI), Hatem Amer (US)

Evolving Ethics and Emerging Trends in Transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.1 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: David Thomson (ZA), Aviva Goldberg (CA)

Evolving strategies in intestinal and multivisceral transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.9 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Helen Evans (NZ), Rajith Amaratunga (AU)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Gender and Transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C3.6 SOTA/Thematic Session

Living Organ Donation in 2026: Unified Principles, Organ-Specific Nuances

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room Cockle Bay 2 SOTA/Thematic Session

Innovations in skin cancer in transplantation

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.5 SOTA/Thematic Session
Moderators: Angela Webster (AU), Brenda Maria Rosales (AU)

Pediatric cholestatic liver disease around the world

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C3.4-C3.5 Concurrent
Moderator: Gabriel E. Gondolesi (US)

Organ donation following MAID (VAD/euthanasia)

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Room C4.11 Concurrent
Moderator: Helen Opdam (AU)
- Panelist representing Canada
  
  Matthew Weiss (CA)
- Panelist representing Australia
  
  Wade Stedman (AU)

Closing Plenary

3:20 PM – 4:30 PM Room Darling Harbour Plenary Session
- Gene and cell therapy in transplantation
  
  Maria Grazia Roncarolo (US)
- From donor to recipient: Microbiome signatures as predictors of post-transplant complications
  
  Olivia Smibert (AU)