AGENDA

06:00 pm Registration

06:30 pm Welcome Chair: Prof. Dr. Berthold Seitz

Public Opening Lecture

Prof. Dr. Michael Menger, Homburg/Saar:

Translationale Forschung in der Chirurgie und Transplantations-

Medizin: Revolution, mühseliges Tagewerk oder

illusionärer Flop

07:30 pm Welcome Party

Thursday, May 26, 2022

08:30 am Chair: Prof. Dr. Markus Hoth

Brief Address from

Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmitt, President of the University

Prof. Dr. Gerald Haug, President of Leopoldina

Solid Organs

08:50 am Chair: Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schäfers

Prof. Dr. Michael Stöckle, Homburg/Saar:

Robot-assisted, laparoscopic living donor kidney

transplantation

09:10 am

Prof. Dr. Hans J. Schlitt, Regensburg:

Liver transplantation in Germany: A critical view

09:40 am

Prof. Dr. Paolo Brenner, München:

Breakthrough in preclinical and clinical cardiac

xenotransplantation

10:10 am Coffee Break

10:40 am

Prof. Dr. Sara Brucker, Tübingen:

Uterus transplantation – where are we today?

11:10 am

Prof. Dr. Eckhard Wolf, München:

Genetically tailored donor pigs for xenotransplantation –

perspective of a biotechnologist

11:40 am Lunch

Friday, May 27, 2022

In Translation

12:40 pm Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael Menger

Prof. Dr. Maria Vehreschild, Frankfurt:

Intestinal microbiome: transplantation and modulation

01:00 pm

Prof. Dr. Patrick MacDonald, Edmonton:

Human islet isolation, biobanking, and distribution for research

01:30 pm

Prof. Dr. Per-Olof Berggren, Stockholm/Miami:

Pancreatic islet transplantation in the anterior chamber of the eye

to treat diabetes mellitus

02:00 pm Coffee Break

Eye

02:20 pm Chair: Prof. Dr. Frank Schmitz

Prof. Dr. Masayo Takahashi, Kobe:

Retinal cell therapy now and future

02:50 pm

Prof. Dr. Berthold Seitz, Homburg/Saar:

Excimer and Femtosecond laser assisted corneal

transplantation

03:10 pm

Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen, Köln:

Immune reactions after modern lamellar (DALK, DSAEK, DMEK)

versus conventional penetrating corneal transplantation

03:40 pm Coffee Break

Immunology and Ethics

04:00 pm Chair: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Henn

Prof. Dr. Martina Sester, Homburg/Saar:

Immunomonitoring in transplant recipients

04:20 pm

Prof. Edward K. Geissler, PhD, Regensburg:

Perspectives of cell-based immune therapy in organ transplantation

04:50 pm

Prof. Dr. Peter Dreger, Heidelberg:

Cellular immunotherapy for hematological disorders – from

allogeneic stem cell transplantation to CAR-T cell application

05:10 pm

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Guthoff, Rostock:

Tissue and organ transplantation – ethical and economical

considerations in different health systems