The 27th Transplantation Congress (TTS) sponsored by International Organ Transplant Association was held in Madrid, Spain from July 1 to 5, 2018. Professor Tian Puxun of the Kidney Transplant Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University attended the congress on behalf of the team.
TTS, the most authoritative academic conference with the largest scale in the world, is held biennially. This Congress attracted more than 3,000 experts of organ donation and transplant and scholars of basic transplant medicine from famous colleges and hospitals of 105 countries, where they carried out extensive academic discussions and exchanges about issues of scientific research, clinic, society and ethics of solid organ transplant.
What's more, this Congress also invited more than 150 experts from China, enjoying the first international organ transplant congress with the large number of Chinese experts, where they presented 51 reports and posters. During the Congress, experts made detailed introduction and summary about the current development of organ donation and transplant worldwide. Additionally, they also presented the newest clinic big data and basic scientific payoffs in some fields such as donation, maintenance and acquisition of organs, organ repair and storage out of the body, immunologic tolerance of organ transplant, transplant infection, ischemia reperfusion injury, transplant surgery techniques, long-term surviving of transplant recipient.
Professor Tian Puxun and doctoral candidate Han Feng of the Kidney Transplant Department delivered speeches respectively with the title of M-CSF and TNF-α induced human M-MDSCs that attenuate GVHD and Significant difference between proteasome and immunoproteasome inhibition in acute kidney injury. In addition, two posters about clinic organ donation and transplant were exhibited with the subject of Clinical observation of single kidney transplantation for adult recipients from non-heartbeating pediatric donors and How to select the non-heartbeating donors suffering from CPR. The kidney transplant team of our hospital presented 4 reports and posters, taking up 7.8% of the all exhibited items, which reflected the outstanding progress of our kidney transplant team in basic transplantation immunity and clinic research of kidney transplant and showed the achievements of our transplant team in organ acquisition and transplant.
