Preliminary Scientific Programme

15.00-19.00 | Registration opened

17.00-17.45 | Opening session including keynote address

Chairs: Dr Nizar Mahlaoui (IPOPI Medical Advisory Panel Chairman) and Ms. Martine Pergent (IPOPI President)

  • Opening remarks – Ms Martine Pergent (IPOPI President) and Mr Johan Prevot (IPOPI Executive Director)
  • Keynote speech: PIDs as a model of successful international scientific collaboration – Prof Martin van Hagen

17.45-19.00 | Session 1: Newborn Screening for PIDs – now what?

Chairs: Prof Dr Frank Staaal and Dr Bruce Lim

  • Lecture 1: Newborn Screening as a system: from good practice to common practice – Prof Jim Bonham
  • Lecture 2: SCID Newborn Screening- what have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Prof Fabian Hauck
  • Lecture 3: New PID candidates to newborn screening and the impact of genomics – Prof Lennart Hammarström

19:15 | Welcome Reception – Venue TBC

20.30 | Company Symposium

07.30-08.30 | Company Symposium

08.00-08.30 | Guided Poster

08.30-10.00 | Session 2: Management of Neurological manifestations in PID

Chairs: Dr Elizabeth Rivers and Prof John Seymour 

  • Lecture 1: Neurological manifestations: when to think about PID?
  • Lecture 2: Managing neurological manifestations in PID – Dr Elie Hadad
  • Lecture 3: How to care for PID patients with neurocognitive impairments? (Up and coming therapeutic approaches, physiotherapy, ergotherapy etc) –
  • Lecture 4: Patient Testimony

10.00-10.30 | Coffee Break and Guided Poster

10.30-12.00 | Session 3: Transplantation advances in PIDs: challenges and opportunities

  • Lecture 1: When to transplant adults or not: ‘PIDs in the grey zone’ – lessons from 20 years of experience – Prof Emma Morris
  • Lecture 2: New transplantation techniques & technology – Prof Andy Gennery
  • Lecture 3: Management of psychological aspects before and after HSCT/GT
  • Lecture 4: Patient Testimony

12:00-13:00 | Company Symposium

13.00-14.15 | Lunch and Poster Walk

13:00-14:00 | Company Symposium

14.15-15:45 | Session 4: Analyse This! Complex Case Studies

Chairs: Prof Stephen Jolles and Dr Nizar Mahlaoui

  • Lecture 1: The use of JAK/STAT in PIDs – Prof Carsten Speckmann
  • Lecture 2: Actinopathies management “when actin is not acting” – Prof Fabio Candotti
  • Lecture 3: It´s all in the genes: Monogenic vs polygenic manifestations – Prof Alain Fischer

15.45-16.15 | Coffee Break and Guided Poster Walk

16.15-17.30 | Session 5: Regional Diagnosis and Clinical Challenges Session

  • APSID – 1 success and 1 challenge in your region – Prof Surjit Singh
  • ASID – 1 success and 1 challenge in your region – Dr Leila Jeddane
  • CIS – 1 success and 1 challenge in your region
  • ESID – 1 success and 1 challenge in your region – Prof Fabio Candotti
  • LASID – 1 success and 1 challenge in your region – Dr Gesmar Segundo
  • SEAPID – 1 success and 1 challenge in your region – Dr Narissara Suratannon

17:30-18:30 | Company Symposium

20.00 | Congress Dinner – Venue TBC

8:00-9:00 | Company Symposium

9.00-10.30 | Session 6: Managing Malignancies in PIDs

Chairs: Prof Klaus Warnatz and Ms Jose Drabwell

  • Lecture 1: Diagnosing malignancies in PID – Getting it right and learning from what went wrong! – Prof Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles
  • Lecture 2: Common features of primary and secondary immunodeficiency – Prof Markus Seidel
  • Lecture 3: Checkpoint inhibitors and repurposing cancer drugs – what can we learn from the oncology field?
  • Lecture 4: Patient Testimony

10.30-11.00 | Coffee break and Guided Poster Walk

11.00-12.30 | Session 7: Ethics Sessions

Chairs: Prof Ellie Haddad and Ms Martine Pergent

12.30-13.45 | Lunch and Poster Walk

13.45-14.45 | Company Symposium

14.45-15.15 | Young PID investigators: poster winners’ session

Chairs: Dr T Alba Cano and Ms Martine Pergent

  • Poster 1 – TBC
  • Poster 2 – TBC
  • Poster 3 – TBC

15.15-15.45 | Coffee break and Guided Poster Walk

15.45-17.00 | Session 8: Clinical life odyssey/itinerary of PIDs

Chairs: Prof Anna Sediva and Ms Roberta Anido de Pena

  • Lecture 1: Lost in Transition — How to improve transition care from childhood/teenagehood to adulthood – Prof Siobhan Burns
  • Lecture 2: Pregnancy and PID! – Dr Elise Mallart
  • Lecture 3: Transition adulthood to elderly – Dr Virgil Dalm
  • Lecture 4: Emergency wards, ICU and PIDs – Dr Nahla Erwa

17.00-17.45 | Closure talk: TBA