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Confirmed Invited Speakers

FULL PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

11:00-12:30

Advanced technologies in clinical xenotransplantation: Genetics and multi-omics
Eckhard Wolf
Germany
Sagar Chhangawala
United States
Alexandre Loupy
France
Brendan Keating
United States

13:30-15:00

Ethics-economics-regulation: Does the public buy in?
Richard Pierson III
United States
Daniel Hurst
United States
Vijay Kumar
United States (FDA)
Ralf Tönjes
Germany
Efstratios (Stratos) Chatzixiros
WHO

17:10-18:40

Complement and humoral rejection: Still barriers to success?
Robert Rieben
Switzerland
Robert Montgomery
United States
Alfred Joseph Tector
United States
Daniel Ricklin
Switzerland

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

08:30-10:00

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

Immunosuppression, immune monitoring, anti-CD154 pathway blockade: How far do we need to go?
David K.C. Cooper
United States
Steve Perrin
United States
Hidetaka Hara
People’s Republic of China
Leonardo Riella
United States

13:30-15:00

Clinical breaking news / Innovation
Bartley P. Griffith
United States
Robert Montgomery
United States
Leonardo Riella
United States
Ke-Feng Dou
People’s Republic of China

17:05-18:35

Coagulation: From activation to inhibition
Peter Cowan
Australia
Lars Burdorf
United States
Burcin Ekser
United States
Peter J. Friend
United Kingdom

Thursday, October 2, 2025

08:30-10:00

Towards clinical xenotransplantation: Clinical trials are underway today!
Tatsuo Kawai
United States
Kazuhiko Yamada
United States
Muhammad Mohiuddin
United States
Ke-Feng Dou
People’s Republic of China

13:30-15:00

Islets-cells the future is today…
Yannick Muller
Switzerland
Barbara Ludwig
Germany
Rita Bottino
United Kingdom
Chung-Gyu Park
South Korea

17:05-18:35

Mentoring the future: A session to inspire Young Investigators
Eckhard Wolf
Germany
Hiroshi Nakauchi
United States / Japan
Alessia Giarraputo
France
Megan Sykes
United States
Jeffrey Stern
United States

Friday, October 3, 2025

08:30-10:00

Infectious diseases: Have we made Xeno safe enough to proceed?
Jay A. Fishman
United States
Simon H. Williams
United States
Nicolas Mueller
Switzerland
Hans H. Hirsch
Switzerland
Sapna A. Mehta
United States

10:30-12:00

State-of-the-Art: Physiology of clinical xenotransplants: Will pig organs fit the job?
Paolo Brenner
Germany
Eric Judd
United States
Heidi Yeh
United States
Daniel Reichart
Germany

12:00-13:00

Summary and Outlook
Raphael Meier
United States