Webinar Objectives:

• Untersuchungen vor der Transplantation: HLA & Immunhämatologielabor
• Antikörper-Titration
• Entfernung von Antikörpern: TPE/Plasma-Apherese
• Bluttransfusion: Spezielle Blutkomponenten
• Nach der Transplantation: Überwachung von Antikörpern (Erythrozyten/ HLA)
• Ablehnung: TPE/Plasma-Apherese

Redner: Dr. Ankit Mathur

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• Gain insight into the principles and advantages of Nanopore sequencing.
• Discuss the reliability, sensitivity, and challenges of Nanopore sequencing.
• Highlight the importance of Nanopore sequencing using different case studies and research

Speakers: Dr. Thidathip Wongsurawat (Tip), Head, Division of Medical Bioinformatics Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

Webinar Objectives: 

• Gain insight into the principles and advantages of Nanopore sequencing.
• Discuss the reliability, sensitivity, and challenges of Nanopore sequencing.
• Highlight the importance of Nanopore sequencing using different case studies and research

Speakers: Dr. Thidathip Wongsurawat (Tip), Head, Division of Medical Bioinformatics Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

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• Understand the Pre- & Post Transplant Antibody Identification in cases of Haplo Haematopoetic Stem Cell Transplant.
• Highlight the importance of monitoring.
• Discuss clinical case studies demonstrating the impact of antibody identification and monitoring on patient outcomes.

Speakers: Dr. Anil Handoo, Principal Director, Hospital Laboratory Services & Transfusion Medicine, & Principal Director Academics & Research - Max Healthcare Institute Limited & associated hospitals.

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• Join us to learn the best practices for writing abstracts and posters as well as how to do your study or project justice when presenting at a conference.
• Learn what is and isn't an abstract, and what should an abstract contain.
• Hear about the importance of posters in academic and professional settings.
• Learn tips for writing abstracts, creating effective posters, including structure, design and the pitfalls to avoid.

Speakers: Richard Haggas, Director, UK NEQAS Blood Transfusion Laboratory Practice and Alison Hines, Scientific and Clinical Training and Education Manager, NHSBT

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• MFIs between vendors are not comparable and therefore cutoffs based on the same MFI value cannot be applied to both
• Aim is to generate a model to determine how MFI values from different vendors behave
• Establish data-driven, comparable, vendor-specific cutoffs for analyzing big data sets

Speakers: Gonca Karahan, Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

Webinar Objectives: 

• What is CAR-T, CAR-T current indications and future directions
• The patient journey through CAR T-cell therapy and complications associated with CAR-T

Speakers: Ceri Jones Haematology Consultant, University Hospital of Wales, Emily John Lead CAR-T Clinical Nurse Specialist, University Hospital of Wales

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•  Shared case studies are a learning opportunity for all. Our subject matter experts will be reviewing HLA antibody analysis on the MATCH IT! Antibody software using informative case studies and software tools.

Speakers: Erik Chatroop, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM, CHS(ACHI) and Lindsay Murdock, MS, CHT(ABHI), MLS(ASCP)^CM

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Using informative case studies and software tools, our subject matter experts will be reviewing HLA typing. Learn more about what makes MIA FORA NGS software and assays unique.

Speakers: Amelia Chen

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Our subject matter experts will be reviewing HLA antibody analysis on MATCH IT! Antibody software using informative case studies, software tools, and interactive polls.

Speakers: K. Kelly Cousins, BS, CHT (ABHI) and Jean L. Heneghan, MS, CHS(ABHI)

Webinar Objectives: 

• HLA antibody analysis on MATCH IT! Antibody v1.5.1 software using informative case studies and software tools

Speakers: Lindsay Murdock, MS, CHT(ABHI), MLS(ASCP) ^CM  and Erik Chatroop, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM, CHS(ACHI)

Webinar Objectives: 

• Writing procedures and work instructions
• Quality managements
• Standards of laboratory practice
• Test performance appraisal and validation

Speaker: Dr. Marco Andreani Ph.D. ; Dr. Walter Herczyk CHS(ACHI) MT (ASCP)

Webinar Objectives:

• Organ transplantation
• Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
• Single donor platelet transfusion for alloimmunized patients
• HLA and disease associations

Speaker: Dr. Sunil Daga MBBS MRCP PhD

Webinar Objectives 

• Clinical Histocompatibility Testing for Xenotransplantation: What We Have and What We Need
• Post-transplant Rejection Diagnostics:  a Bermuda Triangle between HLA Specialists, Nephrologists and Pathologists
• The Next Steps in the Routine Diagnostic Implementation of Non-HLA Antibody Testing
• The Role of HLA and Non-HLA Antibody Burden in the Outcome of Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

Speakers: Sam Ho, Maarten Naesens, Carrie Butler, Patrizia Comoli

Webinar Objectives 

• Unlocking the Power of PIRCHE-II: Exploring the Role of HLA Mismatch in Risk Stratification
• The Use of PIRCHE in Stem Cell Transplantation
• The HLA Eplet Registry. New Design, New Tools and Future Directions
• Shaping the NEXT GENERATION of MATCH IT!^® Software

Speakers: Bethany Dale, Meenakshi Singh, Massimo Mangolia, Alisa Rantanen

Webinar Objectives

• Best Practices for Antibody Testing
• Canadian Genome Project
• Virtual Crossmatch: How and Why?, US Perspective
• Virtual Crossmatch: How and Why?, Eurotransplant
• Virtual Crossmatch:  How and Why, Down Under

Speakers: Annette Jackson, Karen Sherwood, Paul Keown, Luis Hidalgo, Cynthia Kramer, Rhonda Holdsworth

Webinar Objectives: 

• Sensitivity of antibody detection assays
• Epitope of structure of HLA gene products
• Relationships of HLA epitopes and sequence
•  Analysis of HLA antibodies in patients
• Dynamics of HLA antibody production

Speaker: Tiffany Bratton, PhD

Webinar Objectives: 

• Complement-dependent cytotoxicity assay,
  flow cytometry, & ELISA
• Complement and antiglobulin reagents Molecular genetics

Speaker: Michael D. Gautreaux, PhD, FACHI

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• HLA complex & nomenclature
• Genetics of the HLA complex
• Physical and antigenic structure & functioning of HLA gene products

Speaker: Gizem Turmer, MD

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• LEARNing is fun in a new way when you complete this virtual intensive, transplant medicine investigation.

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•  Learn more about PIRCHE
• How PIRCHE can help you see beyond limits of transplant diagnostics.

Speaker: Massimo Mangiola, Ph.D., A(ACHI)

Webinar Objecties:

• Understand the Clinical relevance of NK (natural killer) cells Immunogenetics

Speaker: Dr. Rajalingam Raja, UCSF, USA

Webinar Objectives:

• HLA-DQ Antibodies in Solid Organ Transplantation

Speakers: Anat Roitberg-Tambur, DMD, PhD

Webinar Objectives: 

• The Eurotransplant Acceptable Mismatch Program
• How HLA epitope knowledge may benefit highly sensitized patients
• HLA-specific memory B cells: possible use for delisting and desensitization strategies
• Highly sensitized patients are disadvantaged by the presence of denatured HLA in Luminex HLA single antigen testing
• How implementing two SAB vendors can help patients

Speakers: Annette Jackson, Sebastiaan Heidt, Suzanne Bezstarosti, Gonca Karahan, Richard Battle, Alin Girnita 

Webinar Objectives: 

• The Genome Canada Consortium on Precision Medicine in Renal Transplantation
• The Evolution and Revolution in NGS
• Getting the basic building blocks rights- The impact of NGS based HLA typing on our clinical practice
• Definition of immunogenic and non-immunogenic HLA epitopes
• Updates from the HLA- DQ antibody component of the International Histocompatibility Workshop

Speakers: Paul Keown, Karen Sherwood, Sujatha Krisnakumar, Dolly Rose, Cynthia Kramer, Anat Tambur

Webinar Objectives: 

• What's in your toolbox? Experiences with LIFECODES ID assays
• What's in your toolbox? Experiences with LIFECODES LSA and C3d assays
• Non-HLA: A voyage into the unknown
• Clinical Relevance of Non-HLA Antibody Burden in Kidney Transplantation
• Non-HLA antibody panel: from bench to bedside

Speakers: Mike Gautreaux, Brett Loehmann, Bryan Ray, Alek Senev, Carrie Butler

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• Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from unrelated donors in Germany
• Structures, Figures, Matching Guidelines, and Outcomes

Speaker: Dr. Joannis Mytilineos

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• HLA Matching Paradigms in Allogeneic HSCT

Speaker: Dr. Meenakshi Singh, Advanced center for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai, India

Webinar Objectives: 

• A breakthrough in ABO isoagglutinin titration automation: reason to believe & its benefits

Speakers: Dr. Soma Agrawal

Webinar Objectives:

• Overview of single antigen analysis technology
• Walk through of an interactive case study

Speakers: K. Kelly Cousins, Jean L. Heneghan

Webinar Objectives:

• Advantages of Multi-Assay Analysis: Resolving Discrepancies between Solid Phase Immunoassays
• Non-HLA antibody panel discovery, development, and validation: From bench to bedside
• Redesigning HLA Compatibility: Does it work and are we ready?

Speaker: Julie Houp, MS CHS  Carrie L. Butler, Ph.D.  Massimo Mangiola, Ph.D. D(ACHI)

Webinar Objectives: 

• Overview of single antigen analysis technology
• Walk through of an interactive case study

Speakers: K. Kelly Cousins, Jean L. Heneghan

Webinar Objectives: 

• Overview of single antigen analysis technology
• Walk through of an interactive case study

Speakers: K. Kelly Cousins, Jean L. Heneghan

Webinar Objectives: 

• Transplanting sensitized candidates: new options for overcoming DSA barriers

Speaker: Annette Jackson

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• Diagnosis of antibody-meditated rejection in 2021: antibodies, biopsies, and molecules

Speaker: Michael Mengel

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• Lab week Case Studies with Lifecodes LSA

Speaker: Dave Pinelli 

Webinar Objectives: 

• Next generation Sequencing: Now and the Future
• Comparison of automated HLA typings 11 loci with the Mflex techniques vs 11 Flex techniques
• Non-HLA antibodies time for the challenge in solid organ transplantation
• Immucor's Non-HLA Antibody Assay Expands

Speakers: Michael Solomon, Odile Avinens, David Sansegundo Arribas, Bryan Ray

Webinar Objectives: 

• Immucor Lifescreen Deluxe and Lifecodes Single Antigen, Milano San Raffaele experience

Speaker: Dr. Benedetta Mazzi

Webinar Objectives: 

• Impact of Covid-19 on solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
• Impact of Covid-19 on HLA laboratory
• Immune profiling of Covid-19 patients and implication in transplantation
• HLA association with Covid-19

Speaker: Rajalingam Raja Ph.D, FRCP, D(ABHI)

Webinar Objectives: 

• Overview of single antigen analysis technology
• Walk through of an interactive case study

Speakers: K. Kelly Cousins, Jean L. Heneghan

Webinar Objectives: 

• Overview of single antigen analysis technology
• Walk through of an interactive case study

Speakers: K. Kelly Cousins, Jean L. Heneghan

Webinar Objectives: 

• Overview of single antigen analysis technology
• Walk through of an interactive case study

Speakers: K. Kelly Cousins, Jean L. Heneghan

Webinar Objectives: 

• Background
• Methods to obtain access for CCP
• NYC & the Covid-19 Pandemic
• CUIMC CCP clinical trials
• Impact on transfusion service operations

Speaker: Joseph Schwartz 

Webinar Objectives: 

• Brief review of the technology and its key characteristics
• The significant impact of HLA Typing by NGS by solid organ transplantation
• Explain limitations of the current technologies utilized in the clinical labs and how Nanopore sequencing may provide a better solution
• Present data showing the informative application of NGS for a more complete assessment of the role of HLA genomic polymorphisms in disease association studies

Speaker: Dimitri Monos Ph.D.

Webinar Objectives: 

• Ethical issues on the way to self sufficiency: How to improve organ transplantation in India

Speaker: Vivik Kute

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• Discussion of treatment of late antibody-meditated rejection

Speaker: Georg Böhmig

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• Unfavorable mismatches and acceptable antibodies in kidney transplantation

Speaker: Rajalingam Raja