Satellite Symposium

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One Lambda Inc. will host a satellite symposium on Wednesday 31 July from 16h30 to 17h30, directly after the 25th SATS congress proceedings. All delegates are invited to attend this symposium.

The topic of discussion of the symposium will be:
From sensitizing to rejection: The role and scope of anti-HLA donor specific antibody in transplantation
Presented by Dr Hugo Kaneku, Terasaki Foundation, Los Angeles, California

Hugo Kaneku

Hugo Kaneku obtained his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima Peru in 2003.  He worked as physician at the Peruvian Police outpatient clinic in Lima from 2004-2005 and then moved to Terasaki Foundation Laboratory in Los Angeles where he worked from May 2006 until July 2010.

Dr Kaneku has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles in their Department of Surgery, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, since August 2010.

Dr Kaneku has delivered several oral presentations at conferences.  The most recent presentation was at the XIII International Small Bowell Transplant Symposium at Oxford (2013).  His presentation focused on ‘Donor-specific HLA antibody desensitization: efficacy and experience at a single intestinal transplant centre’.  Also this year, at the American Transplant Congress in Seattle, he delivered a presentation focusing on HLA-DQ mismatch as an independent predictor of de novo DSA after liver transplantation.

He has also peer-reviewed and is author and co-author of several publications.