n. 15, October 2019

Dear Colleagues,

 

We would like to draw your attention on the up-coming “Clinical Transplantation Day” 2019 edition that will be organised on November 29, 2019 in Barcelona (Spain), organised by DESCARTES and endorsed by ESOT and EKITA.  

The Course offers an exciting opportunity for DESCARTES/EKITA members: participants are encouraged to submit abstracts dealing with all aspects of organ transplantation.

The title of the course is

“One size does not fit all - Specific challenges posed by individual donor, recipient and transplant characteristics"

 

Submit your abstract at: events@euromeetings.it

 

The deadline for the abstract submission is October 31, 2019.

 

The abstracts will be scored and ranked by the faculty panel. The authors of the three best scored abstracts will be asked to present their work in a free communication session to be held during the course (10 minutes for the presentation, 5 minutes for the discussion).

The presenters of the three best scored abstracts will be granted with free meeting registration, accommodation and travel as well as with a grant of EUR 1000, EUR 500, EUR 250 according to their ranking positions in the abstract evaluation.

The authors of the three best scored abstracts will be notified by November 10, 2019.

 

For any information regarding the Scientific Programme, the abstract rules and the Registration visit the congress website www.ctday.eu.

READ THE LATEST DESCARTES PAPER

Pre-existing malignancies in renal transplant candidates—time to reconsider waiting times
Bruno Watschinger Klemens Budde Marta Crespo Uwe Heemann Luuk Hilbrands Umberto Maggiore Christophe Mariat Rainer Oberbauer Gabriel C Oniscu Licia Peruzzi Søren S Sorensen Ondrej Viklicky Daniel Abramowicz

 

Read all DESCARTES publications here

Starting from 2019, the ERA-EDTA Long Term Fellowships are assigned to competitive research proposals by the ERA-EDTA Working Groups / Committees, with the aim to simultaneously finance the most worthy projects and to favor young researchers’ growth.

 

The failing renal graft an ERA-EDTA initiated randomized trial, submitted by DESCARTES in collaboration with EUDIAL and IWG, was selected to be one of the projects to be supported by the ERA-EDTA. The Association is in fact grating one young member of the ERA-EDTA, Ms Consuelo De Biase, the possibility to be involved in the project by providing her a fellowship to work on your project/study.

 

Congratulations on Dr De Biase for winning the ERA-EDTA Long Term Fellowship!

 

CALL FOR CANDIDATES

 

We would like to draw your attention to the open Call for candidacies to become a DESCARTES Working Group Board Member.

In 2020 the Board composition can be partially renewed and 3 new members can be elected.

Before applying, please read the Working Groups regulations carefully and consider that to be eligible for the Board a member must have been an ordinary member of the WG for at least 2 years (or from its creation) or have a proven track record of relevant scientific expertise that would justify his/her being part of the Board; he/she must also be an active ERA-EDTA Full member: exceptions to this last rule can only be made for non-nephrologists.

 

Each candidate must send his/her application and CV (the use of this special template is mandatory) together with two supporting letters from two DESCARTES members (Board or Ordinary members) to descartes@era-edta.org, the DESCARTES secretariat will, indeed, collect the candidatures on behalf of the Working Group Vice Chair.

 

The deadline to apply is November 30, 2019. No candidatures sent after this date will be accepted; furthermore, candidatures not fulfilling all the above mentioned requirements, as per the Working Groups regulations, will not be taken into consideration.

 

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