World Transplant Congress 2006: The most important transplantation meeting gathers in Boston - July 2006

Business Wire, June 22, 2006

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. -- The first international joint transplant conference, the World Transplant Congress 2006 (WTC), is set for - July 22-27, 2006 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. Sponsored by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), the American Society of Transplantation (AST), and The Transplantation Society (TTS), WTC 2006 shares crucial worldwide research and discoveries in the field of transplantation medicine.

Over the past 40 years, physicians, surgeons, scientists, nurses, organ procurement personnel and pharmacists have attended Congresses such as these in cities around the world to communicate the science and clinical practice of transplantation. This year, The World Transplant Congress has received a record number of submitted abstracts and anticipates one of the most highly attended transplant meeting in history.

WTC Highlights:

--"What's Hot, What's New" Monday, July 24

--Infectious Disease Updates

--Ethics and Economics

--Stem Cell Research

--NIH and JDRF Initiative Update

--State-of-the-Art Address - Judah Folkman, MD, Harvard Medical School; Children's Hospital Boston

--Virology Update

--Islet Transplants

--Organ Allocation Worldwide

--Pediatric Symposium

--Bioartificial Organs and Devices

--Living Kidney Donation

--Gene Therapy

--Cardiovascular Disease after Renal Transplants

--Skin Cancer in Solid Organ Transplants

--Registry Data Analysis in Kidney Transplants

--Expanded Criteria Donors

--Immunosuppression Minimization & Withdrawal

--T-Cell & B-Cell data

--Reproductive Issues

In-depth scientific and clinical material will be presented through symposia, oral abstracts, concurrent workshops, poster presentations and small group sessions. Presenters include the most respected and knowledgeable individuals in the fields of basic and clinical transplantation science and medicine.

WORLD TRANSPLANT CONGRESS 2006
          The most important transplantation meeting gathers
                         in Boston - July 2006

Schedule:
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Saturday, July 22                   Postgraduate Courses
Sunday, July 23                     Pre-meeting Symposia
Monday, July 24-27                  Scientific Sessions

Visit www.wtc2006.org for details; meeting schedule, key speakers, and more. Media interviews can be arranged. If interested, contact Steven Schiff 610-449-8056; steve@schiffmarketing.com.