The ISHLT Research and Immunology Professional Community is organizing a webinar of experts in the field to discuss future roles for next-generation sequencing in heart and lung transplant diagnostics. These talks are intended to present a broad overview of these complex fields and to highlight emerging technologies that might provide inspiration for novel research directions in thoracic transplantation.
 

Scientific Program

Moderator:
John Greenland, MD, PhD, Univeristy of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA
Adriana Zeevi, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA USA

Genomics: Leveraging the Genome to Guide Donor Matching and Immunosuppression
Brendon Keating, DPhil, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA

Transcriptome-Based Diagnostics: Rapid Transcriptome-Technologies for Bringing Molecular Diagnostics to the Clinic
Phil Halloran, MD, PhD, Heritage Medical Research Centre, Edmonton, AB Canada

Single-Cell Technologies: The Potential for Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics to Guide Rejection Diagnosis
Tereza Martinu, MD, MHS, Toronto General Hosp/UHN, Toronto, ON Canada

Epigenetics and Second Generation cfDNA: Gaining Additional Data from Cell-Free DNA
Sean Agbor-Enoh, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA
 

Continuing Education Information

There will be no continuing education available for this webinar.