STS - 24th Annual Meeting January 21-22, 2027 at the Seepark Hotel in Thun
Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends,
The 2026 STS Annual Meeting was a great success and has just taken place on January 22 and 23.Please already save the date for the 24th edition in 2027, which will be held on January 21 and 22 at the Congress Hotel Seepark in Thun.
All relevant information will follow in due course.
We look forward to welcoming you in Thun on this occasion.
Prof. Jean Villard
President STS
STS Annual Meetings & courses in the future
| NEXT MEETINGS | DATE | VENUE |
| Transplant Fellow Course | Fri 08.05.2026 | Children's Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne |
| 24th | 21 - 22.01.2027 | Seepark Hotel, Thun |
| 25th | 20 - 21.01.2028 | Seepark Hotel, Thun |
| 26th | 25 - 26.01.2029 | Seepark Hotel, Thun |
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HIGHLIGHTS ON THE ANNUAL CONGRESS JANUARY 23-24, 2025
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.
