American Transplant Congress 2010: Interactive Sessions and Important State-of-the-Art Addresses

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 10th annual American Transplant Congress 2010 (ATC) is the premiere educational event in the fields of basic and clinical transplantation.  This joint meeting, sponsored by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST), will occur from May 1 – 5, 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA.  

    ATC features three State-of-the-Art addresses by leading scientists, new audience response sessions and hundreds of presentations covering crucial data in transplantation science and medicine. Controversial topics and important new data will be offered daily.  "This 10th anniversary ATC will be an unprecedented meeting in terms of quality and content," said John Iacomini, PhD, a chair of ATC.  

     State-of-the-Art Addresses are:  

• Michael J. Bevan, PhD, FRS, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Washington, presenting "Regulation of the CD8 T Cell Response" on Sunday, May 2^nd.  
• Shimon Sakaguchi, MD, PhD, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University, speaking May 3^rd on "Regulatory T Cells for Immunological Tolerance".  
• Richard A. Flavell, PhD, 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 5^th.

A focus on "Hot" topics will spotlight the conference. A fun, interactive session on May 3^rd "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.  Afterwards, they will present lectures on infectious disease topics.

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

Transplantation Controversies

Biologic Immunosuppression Agents

Cancer Pathogenesis

Cardiac Risks

    For more information about the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, visit www.asts.org.  Learn more about the American Society of Transplantation at www.a-s-t.org.  Visit www.atcmeeting.org/2010 for meeting schedule, key speakers, and more.  Media interviews are encouraged.

SOURCE American Transplant Congress 2010