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ANNUAL CONGRESS JANUARY 23-24, 2025

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends,
The 22^nd Annual Congress of the STS has just been hold in Thun on January 23-24, 2025, and was a great success!

Here are some highlights…

STS Awards 2025 (PAPERS)

Kindly supported by Astellas, OM Pharma and SwissTransplant.

CLINICAL STUDY

1. Recipient-Donor Sex Constellation in Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma-An ELTR Study
Christian Magyar, Bern

2. Surgical site infections after kidney transplantation are independently associated with graft loss
Peter Schreiber, Zurich

3. Early complications in kidney donors and course of health-related quality of life 12 months after donation: An analysis of the Swiss Organ Living-Donor Health Registry
Charlotte Brügger, Basel

LAB RESEARCH
1. Selective haematological cancer eradication with preserved haematopoiesis
Simon Garaudé, Basel

2. Circulating factors, in both donor and ex-situ heart perfusion, correlate with heart recovery In a pig model of DCD
Selianne Graf, Bern

3. Dietary or pharmacological inhibition of insulin-like growth factor-1 protects from renal ischemia-reperfusion injury in mice
Arnaud Lyon, Lausanne

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STS Best Oral & Best Poster Presentations (SUBMISSIONS)

This year, the Scientific Committee would like to give a voice to young fellows, by introducing for the first time oral and poster presentations of their submissions of work carried out during the year 2024. Kindly supported by Astellas.

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD

Effect of felzartamab anti-CD38 treatment on the molecular phenotype of antibody-mediated rejection in kidney transplant biopsies.
Matthias Diebold, Basel

BEST POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD

BIOPSY BASED TRANSCRIPT DIAGNOSTICS IMPROVES PROGNOSTICATION WITH RESPECT TO KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT LOSS AND EGFR DECLINE ALONG THE AMR CONTINUUM
Dusan Harmacek, Zurich

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STS Excellence & Innovation Awards 2024
Kindly supported by Astellas.

No candidates have been announced for this year's STS Excellence Award 2024. The Scientific Committee very much hopes that this will not be the case for the 2025 edition.

We are pleased to announce the laureate of the STS Innovation Award 2024

Lena BERCHTOLD and Team

In recognition of their outstanding scientific/clinical achievements in the field of Solid Organ Transplantation, particularly based on:

N Hammer, D Legouis, A Pasch, A Huber, L Al-Qusairi 6, PY Martin, S de Seigneux, L Berchtold (2023) Calcification Propensity (T50) Predicts a Rapid Decline of Renal Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients. J Clin Med 2023 Jun 10;12(12):3965.

L. Berchtold, Crowe LA, C Combescure, M Kassai, I Aslam, D. Legouis, Moll S, Martin PY, de Seigneux S, Vallée JP Diffusion-magnetic resonance imaging predicts decline of kidney function in chronic kidney disease and in patients with a kidney allograft (2022). Kidney Int Apr;101(4):804-813.

L. Berchtold, Letouzé E, Alexander MP, Canaud G, Logt AV, Hamilton P, et al. HLA-D and PLA2R1 risk alleles associate with recurrent primary membranous nephropathy in kidney transplant recipients (2021). Kidney Int Mar; 99(3):671-685.

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NEXT STS MEETING 2025 & 2026 – SAVE THE DATES

Transplant Fellow Course: Core Curriculum on Friday, 9^th May, 2025

Auditoire Paternot, AGORA (CHUV) Lausanne

Face-to-face - with the option of following the course online.

Registration online

23^rd Annual Meeting on January 22-23, 2026 at the Seepark Hotel Thun

Information

We are looking forward to seeing you at these upcoming events.

Kind regards

Philipp Dutkowski Nicolas Mueller
President STS Chair, Scientific Committee STS

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