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Confirmed Invited Speakers

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

09:00-10:30

Opening ceremonies and Session 1

IXA President

Muhammad Mohiuddin
United States

IXA 2025 Congress Chair

Leo H. Buhler
Switzerland

11:00-12:30

Session 2 on Deciphering Clinical Xenotransplantation: Advanced Technologies
Eckhard Wolf
Germany
Alexandre Loupy
France
Brendan Keating
United States

13:30-15:00

Session 3 on Ethics-economics-regulation
Richard Pierson III
United States
Efstratios (Stratos) Chatzixiros
WHO

17:00-18:30

Session 4 on Complement and humoral rejection
Robert Rieben
Switzerland
Robert Montgomery
United States
Alfred Joseph Tector
United States
Daniel Ricklin
Switzerland

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

08:30-10:00

Session 5 on Cellular rejection and innate-adaptive immunity
Jörg D. Seebach
Switzerland
Shuji Miyagawa
Japan
Yong-Guang Yang
People’s Republic of China
Eloi Schmauch
United-States

10:30-12:00

Session 6 on Immunosuppression, immune monitoring, anti-CD154 pathway blockade
David K.C. Cooper
United States
Hidetaka Hara
People’s Republic of China
Leonardo Riella
United States

Thursday, October 2, 2025

08:30-10:00

Session 9 on Kidney/Heart/Liver
Tatsuo Kawai
United States
Kazuhiko Yamada
United States
Muhammad Mohiuddin
United States
Ke-Feng Dou
People’s Republic of China

13:30-15:00

Session 10 on Islets-cells
Yannick Muller
Switzerland
Rita Bottino
United Kingdom
Chung-Gyu Park
South Korea

17:00-18:30

Session 11 on Mentoring the Future: A Session to Inspire Young Investigators
Alessia Giarraputo
France
David H. Sachs
United States
Hiroshi Nakauchi
United States / Japan
Eckhard Wolf
Germany
Jeffrey Stern
United States

Friday, October 3, 2025

08:30-10:00

Session 12 on Infectious diseases
Jay A. Fishman
United States
Simon H. Williams
United States
Nicolas Mueller
Switzerland
Hans H. Hirsch
Switzerland
Sapna A. Mehta
United States