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11th Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology
June 6-10, 2011
Paris - Enghien-les-Bains, France

Updates:

Bookings for hotel accommodations are now available. Click here for the reservation form!

• Online registration for the Banff Conference is now available. Click here to register now!
• Note for speakers: Please fill out and send the following 3 forms to banffap@ualberta.ca by April 15, 2011. As well, in order to officially confirm your attendance, please send your name and full contact information to banffap@uaberta.ca
            1. Faculty Biographical Data Form
            2. Faculty Objectives Form
            3. Faculty Disclosure Form

The objectives of this conference are:

*       to review classifications for kidney, liver, heart, lung, and pancreas allograft pathology.
*       to discuss management of the sensitized patient and the concept of C4d- negative antibody-mediated       rejection.
*       to discuss genomics/proteomics approaches to rejection diagnosis, looking for light microscopic markers which correlate with genomics parameters, and vice versa
*       to discuss the possible primacy of epithelial damage and the concept of epithelial mesenchymal transformation.
*       to discuss significance of isolated intimal arteritis.
*       to explore scoring and significance of glomerulitis.
*    to explore means of scoring and assessing polyoma virus infection.
*       to discuss the role and assessment of protocol biopsies.
*       to discuss the role of digital imaging in transplant pathology
*       to discuss formation of new working groups for future questions.