SATURDAY, September 7, 2024: yESAO Pre-Congress Meeting

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On-Site Registration for yESAO

10:30
(Corridor B)

yESAO Welcome Lunch

11:45 12:45
(Staff Canteen)
OPENING WORDS
12:45 13:15
yESAO Coordinators

1st Keynote
13:15 14:15
Exiting Academia: A Personal Account on how to Exit without Leaving (Dr. Salim Olia)

Coffee Break and late registration

14:15 14:45
(Canteen and Floor B)

14:45 16:00 Pitch Session

16:00 18:00 Lab visits

Optional City Tour for ESAO Congress participants

18:00 19:30
(Pre-registration is requested)

20:00 open yESAO Dinner and Party

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2nd Keynote
Exiting Academia: Three
10:30 12:00 Perspectives that Make your Head
Spin (off)
(N. Steuer, R. Graefe, O. Marseille)

yESAO Pre-Congress
12:30 13:15 Discover and Connect

13:15 14:15 Lunch

Workshop
Anti-bias Education: Raising
14:15 15:30 Awareness for Future Leaders of
International Teams
(Prasad Reddy)
Closing Words &
15:30 15:45
Pitch Award Winners
Set Up:
Exhibition
15:45 16:15 Coffee Break
Poster
Catering
OPENING CEREMONY
Chairs: Prof Payam Akhyari - Prof. Ulrich Steinseifer

Welcome Address
Congress President: Prof. Payam Akhyari

Presidential Address
17:00 18:30 ESAO President: Prof. Ulrich Steinseifer

Scientific Chair Address

Prof. Joachim Jankowski

Plenary Lecture
Artificial Organs, when the movies were young! - Prof. Jörg Vienken
(45 min)

Welcome Reception and Buffet

18:30 21:00
Musical Performance: Klangkarre
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PL11: PLENARY LECTURE 1

8:30 9:10 "Inter-Organ Communication: Unraveling Mechanisms and Modulation Strategies" (Alberto Ortiz; Spain)
Chairs: Jankowski
KL11: Emerging Innovations in Chronic Kidney
MT11: Surface Modification for Improved
HE11: Preclinical and Clinical Researc Disease Treatment: Novel Approaches and
Biocompatibility
in Heart Support Future Directions
Chairs: De Laporte/ Weber / Bode
9:15 10:45 Chairs: Slaughter/ Thamsen Chairs: Stamatialis/ Masereeuw
Keynote: Synthetic molecular and colloidal building
Keynote: " Modern cardiac support and Keynote: Do drugs and uremic toxins compete for
blocks to overcome challenges in tissue
replacement options" (Goro Matsumya, Japan) renal clearance and exacerbate combormidities?
engineering (Laura De Laporte, Germany)
(Roos Masereeuw, Netherlands)

10:45 11:15 Coffee Break

BE11: Classic and in situ Tissue Engineering

LU11: Preclinical and Clinical Research
Chairs: Baptista/ Legallais/ Vaca
in Lung Support
Keynotes: 1. Tissue engineering and regenerative KL12: Liver Replacement Therapies and Organ
Chairs: Verbelen/ Jansen/ Strudthoff
11:15 12:45 medicine state-of-the-art and challenges (Paul Models
Keynote: "Clinical use of Artificial Lung technology:
Wieringa & Julian Gonzalez-Rubio) Chairs: Lüdde
current practice and dreams for the near future"
2. "Cell-free heart valves"
(Tom Verbelen, Belgium)
(Payam Akhyari, Germany)

Exhibition
12:45 14:00 Lunch Break Posters
Bonding
SY13: Eutox Symposium Networking
SY11: IFAO Symposium SY12: yESAO Symposium
Uremic toxins and the interaction with different
14:00 15:30 Cardiovascular devices and biocompatibility Research Bonding
organs; Role of uremic toxins
Coffee & Soft Drinks
Chairs: Ono/ Legallais Chairs: Bode/ Esslinger/ Escher
Chairs: Jankowski

RF11: Rapid Fire Poster Presentations RF12: Rapid Fire Poster Presentations RF13: Rapid Fire Poster Presentations
15:30 16:30 Topic: Hemodynamics, AI & Bioengineering Topic: Heart & Kidney, Liver, Organ Crosstalk Topic: Lung Materials/ Testing
Chairs: Jansen Chairs: Granegger Chairs: Neidlin

16:30 17:30 Poster Session & Coffee Break

PL12: PLENARY LECTURE 2

Technology vs Biology: Alternatives to Artificial Organs
"Xenotransplantation in USA, Europe and Japan"
17:30 18:15 Chairs: Akhyari

Kidney Xenotransplantation: Current Status and Future Challenges (Takashi Yokoo ; Japan)
Heart Xenotransplantation: Are we ready for clinical application? (Michael Schmoeckel; Germany)

PD11: PLENARY DISCUSSION 1

18:15 18:30
Technology or Biology ? The Future of Artificial Organ Therapies (Moderated by Payam Akhyari; Germany)

18:30 19:30 ESAO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Optional City Tours:

Aachen, Aix-la-Chapelle, Aquisgran: from Charlemagne to Napoleon - Prof. Vienken
20:00 21:30 Aachen: Myths and Legends - S. Herren
more to come…
(Pre-registration is requested)
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PL23: PLENARY LECTURE 3

8:30 9:10 Impella: the 25-year journey from a start up to becoming the standard of care in acute heart failure (Thorsten Sieß, Germany)
Chairs: Akhyari

MT22: Advances in Thrombogenicity and

HE22: Pediatric Heart Support & New Devices
Hemolysis in-vitro Testing
Chairs: Karimov/ Granegger/ Langer SY24: Albunet Symposium
9:15 10:45 Chairs: Simmonds/ Kertzscher/ Bierwirtz
Keynote: "Cleveland Clinic Total Artificial Heart: Chairs: Boss/ J. Vienken
Keynote: “The Need for Improved In-vitro Test
Architecture and Function" (Jamshid Karimov, US)
Methods” (Michael Simmonds, Australia)
10:45 11:15 Coffee Break

KL23: Organ Crosstalk LU22: The need for ECLS Minituarization:

Chairs: Jankowski AH21: Hemolysis Modeling and Hemodynamic Artificial Placenta and Small Animal Models
11:15 12:45 Keynote: "Impact of post-translational modifications Analysis in Cardiovascular Devices Chairs: Arens/ Schoberer/ Heyer
on the organ crosstalk" Chairs: Fraser/ Torner/ Korte Keynote: "Artificial Placenta – where do we
(Joachim Jankowski, Germany) stand?" (Mark Schoberer, Germany)

LS23: Lunch Symposium LifeShield Medical Exhibition

12:45 14:15 Redefining ECCO2R from concept to First in Man – Treating AE-COPD patients with medium-flow devices Posters
(Tim Kaufmann, Germany)
Bonding
AH22: Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Networking
HE23: Human Machine Interaction &
14:15 15:30
Cardiovascular System LU23: ECLS Design and Development Coffee & Soft Drinks
Hemocompatibility
Chairs : Prahl Wittberg/ Poloni Chairs: Jansen/ Olia/ Schürmann
Chairs : Schima/ Fresiello/ Escher
Keynote: tba (Lisa Prahl Wittberg, Sweden)

15:30 16:15 Poster Session & Coffee Break

SY25: Bonding/ Sponsor Presentation

16:30 17:30
Chairs: Steinseifer

PL24: PLENARY LECTURE 4 and PD22: PLENARY DISCUSSION 2

Attractiveness of the EU Landscape for International Medical Device Manufacturers
Chairs: Akra/ Steinseifer
17:30 18:30
7 Years post publication of the EU Medical Device Regulation (Bassil Akra; Germany)
Industry Vision: What needs to be changed? (Dr. Christina Ziegenberg, BVMed, Germany)
Needs of Notified Bodies towards ensuring reasonable and predictable implementation of EU Rules (Françoise Schlemmer, TEAM
NB | The European Association for Medical devices of Notified Bodies, Belgium)

19:00 20:00 GALA DINNER WELCOME - TOWN HALL

GALA DINNER - CORONATION HALL

Welcome Words ESAO President / Congress President (Ulrich Steinseifer / Payam Akhyari)

Awards Ceremony
ESAO PhD Awards
SAGE Award
20:00 23:00
yESAO Award
Emil Bücherl Award

Ceremonial Discussion
50 Years ESAO - Honoring the Past, Empowering the Future
(H. Klinkmann & U. Steinseifer)
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PL35: PLENARY LECTURE 5

8:30 9:10 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Curse or Blessing (Blanca Rodriguez; UK)
Chairs: Neidlin

AH33: Machine Learning in Cardiovascular and MT33: Thrombogenicity and Hemodynamics of

ECMO Research Medical Devices
BE32: Bioengineering Tools to enhance
9:15 10:45 Functional Outcom
Chairs: Sonntag/ Neidlin/ Korte Chairs: Jacobs/ Clauser/ Schürmann Exhibition
Keynotes: "Challenges in data and AI: The Keynote: Preclinical in-vivo testing of mechanical
Chairs: Müller / Akhyari / Vaca Posters
clinician's perspective" support systems
(Sebastian Fritsch, Germany) (Bart Meyns, Belgium) Bonding
Networking
10:45 11:15 Coffee Break Coffee & Soft Drinks

KL34: Innovations for Improving Treatment of

CKD
Chairs: Remuzzi/ Argiles
AWARDS SESSION SY36: Ears & Eyes Symposium
11:15 12:45 Keynote: “Novel clinical aspects of CKD: the
Chairs: Stamatialis/ Steinseifer Chairs: Walter / Lenarz
burden of vascular calcification and new
endeavours for its prevention and treatment”
(Angel Argiles, France)

CLOSING CEREMONY
12:45 13:30
ESAO Best Poster Award: S. Jansen, M. Granegger
Closing Remarks: P. Akhyari, J. Jankowski, U. Steinseifer