American Transplant Congress 2007

American Transplant Congress 2007

Wednesday April 11, 1:57 pm ET

Meeting on pace for record attendance

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The seventh annual American Transplant Congress 2007 (ATC) -- from Saturday, May 5 through Wednesday, May 9 at the Moscone Convention Center West in San Francisco, CA is one of the most important conferences in the field of basic and clinical transplantation science and medicine. Over the past six years, the meeting has regularly exceeded 5,000 attendees. This year, with the number of pre-registrants, ATC 2007 is on pace for a record breaking attendance.

Crucial worldwide data and research will be shared with nearly 700 oral and 1200 posters presentations throughout the five-day conference. ATC 2007 focuses on the most timely and important topics in the field of transplantation medicine. Physicians, surgeons, scientists, nurses, organ procurement personnel and pharmacists, will gather from all over the world to share new data and improve global transplant medicine.

Controversial topics and new developments will be studied and discussed daily in Sunrise Symposia. Continuing throughout the meeting, the best contributions in the field will be presented and discussed by invited participants with experts moderating morning workshops. Special invited speakers will be announced and the State-of-the-Art address, Keynote address, and the extremely popular, "What's Hot, What's New" highlight just a small portion of this meeting's massive content. The meeting begins Saturday, May 5 with pre-meeting symposia and continues with the scientific sessions from Sunday, May 6 through Wednesday, May 9.

ATC Transplantation Highlights:

"What's Hot, What's New" Presentation
State-of-the-Art Address -- Jason G. Cyster, PhD
Keynote Address -- Alan M. Krensky, MD
Stem Cell Research
Infectious Disease Updates
Ethics and Economics
State-of-the-Art BK Virus and PVAN
Islet Transplants
Pediatric Transplantation
Managing Living Kidney Donors
Ethnic and Racial Diversity
Gynecologic Malignancy
Expanded Criteria Donors
Organ Allocation Worldwide
T-Cell & B-Cell data
Transplant Immunology
Immunosuppression and Post-Transplant Complications
Donor-Derived Infections
Thoracic Organ Procurement and Preservation
PTLD
Tolerance vs. Immunosuppression
...and hundreds of other critical updates and presentations

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