Program

University of Insubria School of Advanced Studies: School on Organ Transplantation, Como, Italy, May 27-29, 2026 
Decision Making in a Complex Biological System: Schedule
 

Arrival

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

 

Basics of Transplantation

Infectious Challenges in Transplantation and Ethics

New Challenges in Transplantation

 

9:00-9:30

Welcome and Introduction: Jay Fishman/Paolo Grossi

9:00-9:45

Infection in Transplantation

Jay Fishman (USA)

9:00-9:45

Bone Marrow Transplantation and CAR-T Cells: New Approaches

Patrizia Comoli, Pavia

 

9:30-10:00

Complexity & Chaos: Prof. Giulio Casati

9:450-10:30

Measurement of Immune Function: Clinical Assays

Martina Sester (Germany)

9:45-10:15

Clinical Cases

Maddalena Peghin (Varese)

 

10:00-10:45

Organ Allocation

Giuseppe Feltrin (Director of the CNT, Rome)

10:30-11:00

Xenotransplantation and Infectious Risk

Jay Fishman

10:15-11:15

Cases from participants

(Discussed by Grossi/Fishman

o   CMV

o   Bacterial (MDRO)

o   Fungal

o   COVID (or latest pandemic)

 

 

10:45-11:30

Organ Preservation and Repair

Joren Madsen (USA)

10:45-11:15

Xenotransplantation Case: Clinical Case Cozzi/ Fishman

11:15-11:45 Coffee

 

11:30-12:00 Coffee

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:45-12:15

Course Review

 

12:00-12:45

Immunology of Graft Rejection

Emanuele Cozzi (Padua)

11:30-12:00

Donor Derived Infection

Paolo Grossi (Varese)

12:15

 Lunch and Departure

 

1:30-2:30 Lunch

12:00-12:45

Tolerance in Transplantation

Joren Madsen

 

 

2:30-3:00

Kidney and Liver Transplantation Salvatore Gruttadauria (UPMC Italy/ISMETT, Palermo)

12:45-2:30- Lunch

 

 

3:00-3:30

Heart and Lung Transplantation

Mauro Rinaldi (Torino)

2:30-3:00

How to study viral infection: BK Virus

Hans Hirsch (Switzerland)

 

 

3:30-4:00

Bowel Transplantation

Michele Colledan (Bergamo)

3:00-4:00

PTLD and Malignancy

Umberto Maggiore (Parma)

 

 

 

4:00-4:20 Coffee

4:00-4:20 Coffee

 

 

4:20–4:50

Health Decisions: Cultural Sensitivity, Ethics and Education

Alessandra Grossi (Varese)

4:20-5:00   

HCV in Transplantation

Patrizia Burra (Padova)

 

 

4:50-5:30 Presumed Consent

David Paredes (Barcelona)

 5:00-5:40

Respiratory viral infections

Mike Ison (Bethesda, USA)

 

 

5:30-6:00

Transplantation in people living with HIV

Jose M. Miro (Barcelona)

 

 

 

Reception