Member Society: ASAIO
ASAIO 66th Annual Conference was cancelled due to the Covid Epidemic. Invited Speakers for that meeting are now invited to present at the 2021 meeting of ASAIO in Washington DC. Audio-visual presentations are now available for almost all scheduled abstract presentations. See asaio.com for for further information and registration to view the abstract presentations.
IFAO-ASAIO Session on the Implantable Artificial Kidney
A special session at the ASAIO was planned by the Kidney Health Initiative and the International Federation of Artificial Organs (IFAO) titled “The Implantable Artificial Kidney.” Other supporting groups included KIDNEW, a consortium of researchers working on WAK and IAK devices. The session was held live and in real time session by audio-visual means, on June 12, 2020. The meeting co-chairs were Murray Sheldon MD of FDA and Fokko Wieringa PhD of IMEC, in Eindhoven, Netherlands (IMEC supplied the IT support using Microsoft Team). The format was 7 minute presentations which included Powerpoint slides narrated in real time by each speaker. The audience then had three minutes to ask questions and the speakers provided answers, all in real time. Below is the program, which includes an impressive list of speakers:
1 Murray Sheldon FDA Intro and overview
2 Shuvo Roy UCSF The Kidney Project
3 Jamie Hestekin US Kidney Research Corporation Waterless technology
4 Buddy Ratner University of Washington Ambulatory Kidney to Improve Vitality
5 Iain Drummond Mount Desert Island Biological Lab (Re)building Kidney
6 Morteza Ahmadi Qidni Implantable Renal Replacement Therapy
7 Dimitrios Stamatialis University of Twente Bioartificial Organs
8 Marianne Verhaar Utrecht University Medical Center RegmedXB project
9 Fokko Wieringa IMEC and Dutch Kidney Foundation Update on NeoKidney
10 Patrick de Jager ASML Experiences from semiconductor roadmapping
11 Wieringa, Sheldon, Ash Wrap-up discussion, Q&A, action points
For a further description of the meeting, see the attached Flyer
Kidnew Flyer with vid link 2020
For background reading, please read the article “Technology Roadmap for Innovative Approaches to Renal Replacement Therapy “ found at https://www.asn-online.org/g/blast/files/KHI_RRT_Roadmap1.0_FINAL_102318_web.pdf. Alternatively read the originally published article “A Technology Roadmap for Innovative Approaches to Kidney Replacement Therapies: A Catalyst for Change” by Bonventre JV, Hurst FP, West M, Wu I, Roy-Chaudhury P, Sheldon M. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Oct 7;14(10):1539-154.