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