Kidney Week

Translational Session

The Future of Dialysis: Bioengineering Tools to Improve Kidney Therapies

October 23, 2020 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Location: Live-Streamed

Session Description

Advanced CKD and ESKD are increasing worldwide, and these patients are afforded very few options for therapies besides traditional dialysis modalities. Because of kidney shortages, transplant wait times are extensive. Patients requiring hemodialysis often have dialysis vascular issues due to poor vasculature. This session discusses the role bioengineering can play in enhancing technologies and therapies to regenerate kidneys and kidney replacement therapies.

Learning Objective(s)

• Summarize recent innovations in bioartificial kidneys
• Discuss the history of kidney xenotransplantation and current progress
• Identify state-of-the-art techniques to regenerate kidneys
• Describe novel bioengineering technologies to improve blood vessels for dialysis vascular access

Learning Pathway(s)

• Dialysis
• Transplantation/Immunology

Moderators

• William Henry Fissell, MD
• Yan-Ting Elizabeth Shiu, PhD

Presentations

• Innovations and Advances in Wearable and Implantable Artificial Kidneys
  10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Shuvo Roy, PhD
  

  Shuvo Roy, PhD

Innovations and Advances in Wearable and Implantable Artificial Kidneys

October 23, 2020 | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

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• Clinical Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation: How Close Are We?
  11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  David KC Cooper, MD, MA, MS, PhD 
  
  

  David KC Cooper, MD, MA, MS, PhD

  DAVID K. C. COOPER, MA, PhD, MD, MS, DSc(Med), FRCS, FACS, FACC, FAST Professor of Surgery and Co-Director, Xenotransplantation Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham David Cooper studied medicine in the UK at Guy’s Hospital Medical School (now part of King’s College London), and trained in general and cardiothoracic surgery in Cambridge and London. Between 1972 and 1980, he was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Medical Sciences at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1980 he took up an appointment in cardiac surgery at the University of Cape Town where, under Professor Christiaan Barnard, he had responsibility for patients undergoing heart transplantation. In 1987, he relocated to the Oklahoma Transplantation Institute in the USA where he continued to work in both the clinical and research fields. After 17 years as a surgeon-scientist, he decided to concentrate on research, initially at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, subsequently at the University of Pittsburgh, and now at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (since 2016). His major interest is in developing cross-species transplantation with the aim of using pigs as sources of organs, cells, and corneas for transplantation in humans.

Clinical Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation: How Close Are We?

October 23, 2020 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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• Novel Advancements to Regenerate Kidneys: Regrow or Repair?
  11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Lauren Elizabeth Woodard, PhD
  

  Lauren Elizabeth Woodard, PhD

Novel Advancements to Regenerate Kidneys: Regrow or Repair?

October 23, 2020 | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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• Bioengineered Blood Vessels for Arteriovenous Access: From the Bench to Clinical Trials
  12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
  Joris I. Rotmans, MD, PhD
  

  Joris I. Rotmans, MD, PhD

Bioengineered Blood Vessels for Arteriovenous Access: From the Bench to Clinical Trials

October 23, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

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