Kidney-NExT6 has been post poned.
This event is free for academic participants. Sponsorship opportunities are available to our industry partners. Please contact Amanda Barresi at barresi@broadinstitute.org for sponsorship opportunities.
Kidney-NExT6
6th Annual Kidney-NExT Symposium
Thursday April 9, 2020
Broad Institute | Monadnock Room
415 Main Street | Cambridge MA
At the tipping point for transformative therapies
Symposium Program
9:00 am Welcome
Anna Greka
SESSION 1
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Joe Bonventre
9:10 - 9:50 am
From scientific breakthrough to the clinic: the RNAi revolution
John Maraganore
SESSION 2
Genomics
Chair: Michelle McNulty
9:50 - 10:10 am
The genetic architecture of IgAN
Krzysztof Kiryluk
10:10 - 10:30 am
Genomics of CKD
Anna Köttgen
10:30 - 10:45 am
Coffee break
SESSION 3
Disease mechanisms
Chair: Caroline Fox
10:45 - 11:05 am
Insights from single cell genomics
Ayshwarya Subramanian
11:05 - 11:25 am
New insights into APOL1 kidney disease
Opeyemi Olabisi
11:25 - 11:45 am
Integrin-based therapeutics
Amin Arnaout
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Lunch/Networking Time (Yellowstone)
SESSION 4
12:30 - 1:00 pm
Special Lecture
KidneyX: Bringing innovation to the kidney space
Sandeep Patel
SESSION 5
Panel Discussion
1:00 - 2:00 pm
What has worked and what can we be doing better to bring innovative treatments to patients with kidney diseases?
Facilitators: Anna Greka and Kevin Fowler
Panelists:
Edward Drake - the patient perspective
Caroline Fox - the industry perspective
Aliza Thompson - the FDA perspective
Sandeep Patel - KidneyX perspective
2:00 - 2:15 pm
Coffee Break
SESSION 6
New frontiers: from the lab to the clinic
Chair: Amin Arnaout
2:15 - 2:35 pm
Novel mechanisms of acute kidney injury
Samir Parikh
2:35 - 2:55 pm
Novel mechanisms of glomerular injury
Tobias Huber
2:55 - 3:15 pm
Clinical trials in nephrology: lessons from MENTOR
Fernando Fervenza
3:15 pm
Closing remarks
Anna Greka
3:15 - 4:00 pm
Additional Networking Time