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German Flavour at ERA-EDTA in Munich

The Official ERA-EDTA Newsletter Year 6 Issue 10

From Christoph Wanner, President of the XLVII ERA-EDTA Congress

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

During the preparation of the joint congress of the ERA-EDTA and the German Society of Nephrology it was a great pleasure to see a growing number of delegates interested in co-ming to Munich in June 2010. The two societies have joined forces to produ-ce a meeting of outstanding scientific quality with a record number of ab-stracts submitted.

The Scientific Committee, chaired by Prof. Josep M. Grinyo, has intensively searched for the best contributions in order to ensure a wide choice of lec-tures and symposia covering the va-rious aspects of basic and clinical Ne-phrology. This year, and for the first time, two very attractive late breaking clinical trial sessions could be compo-sed by the session chair Prof. Johan-nes Mann.

Attention has been given to support the young researchers and nephrolo-gists, especially those having received support through the ERA-EDTA fel-lowship programme. New stars are visible on the horizon which hope-fully will carry nephrology in Europe forward. An extraordinary number of travel grants for young nephrologists have been made available by both Societies this year. Clinical education was the major topic, a field where the ERA-EDTA congresses have reached a top level worldwide. Several new CME sessions are offered just before the official opening of the congress.

A total number of 2371 abstracts have been submitted to this meeting from countries all over the world. This is the highest number ever received for an ERA-EDTA congress and obviously I must thank Prof. Peter Stenvinkel and the whole Paper Selection Committee for their hard work in evaluating and

choosing the free communica-tions and the posters.

It appears that Munich will be attracting the largest number of nephrologists due to the scientific programme. Delega-tes however can also benefit also from the excellent social events the city offers. Munich is one of the most vibrant and modern German cities, with the charming of Bavarian culture and an outstanding number of castles, breathta-king churches and museums. Visit the baroque Nymphen-burg palace, the English Gar-den and have a large bavarian beerstein at the famous Hof-bräuhaus.

Munich is situated in the cen-tre of Europe and can be rea-ched in the shortest possible

time thanks to the excellent infra-structure. Germany’s second-biggest airport guarantees very good conti-nental and intercontinental air con-nections. The venue of the meeting, the International Congress Centre Munich (ICM) is a modern conven-tion centre that provides state-of-the art facilities for a large congress but at the same time, within just 20 minutes with the U rail system, one can reach the heart of the city.Munich is just a few steps away from some of the most wonderful castles and romantic churches (Pfaffenwin-kel) from the late bavarian king Ma-ximilian II. Your way may take you south to Oberammergau passing mo-nastery Ettal heading towards Castle Linderhof and the world famous Sch-loss Neu-Schwanstein. From there the Romantische Strasse can take you to Frankfurt airport on your way to your home destination.

June is a wonderful time to be here and we are very much looking for-ward to welcoming you to Munich for this exceptional joint meeting.

Christoph Wanner

www.eraedta2010.org

XLVII ERA-EDTA CONGRESSII DGfN CONGRESSJUNE 25-28, 2010

Munich, Germany

Kandinsky, an Artist in Munich Fixed 1935, Wassily Kandinsky© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009

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PresidentGérard M. London, France

Secretary-TreasurerAdrian Covic, Romania

Chairperson of Administrative OfficesRosanna Coppo, Italy

Editor-in-Chief of “Nephrology Dialy-sis Transplantation”Norbert Lameire, Belgium

Chairman of the RegistryChristoph Wanner, Germany

Ordinary Council MembersPeter Barany, SwedenGiovanni Cancarini, ItalyDominique Chauveau, FranceMarkus Ketteler, GermanyIvan Rychlik, Czech RepublicKostas Siamopoulos, GreecePeter Stenvinkel, Sweden(Chair of the Paper Selection Committee - Editor-in-Chief of “NDT-Educational”)Gultekin Suleymanlar, Turkey

President of the XLVII Congress (Munich 2010)Christoph Wanner, Germany

Chair of the Scientific Committee of the XLVII Congress (Munich 2010)Josep M. Grinyo, Spain

Editor-in-Chief of “Follow us”Adrian Covic, Romania

Co-Editor of “Follow us”Kostas Siamopoulos, Greece

ERA-EDTA websitewww.era-edta.org

XLVII Congress website (Munich 2010)www.eraedta2010.org

XLVIII Congress website (Prague 2011)www.eraedta2011.org

NDT-Educational websitewww.ndt-educational.org

ERA-EDTA Registry websitewww.era-edta-reg.org

It is, indeed, an honor and a challenge for me to take over the position as the new Editor-in-Chief for NDT-Educational. Since NDT-E was launched in September 2002, it has grown tremendously and, after almost eight years it has more than 10.000 registered users, not only in Europe, but also in many other parts of the world. NDT-E has been an excellent tool to keep the renal community in-formed on all the latest aspects of chronic kidney dis-ease, renal replacement therapy and hypertension. Without doubt, the success of NDT-E is due to the hard and visionary contributions of its founding father Prof Carmine Zoccali. Early on Carmine Zoccali understood the power and potential of internet-based distribution of scientific information. The large and steadily rising number of NDT-E readers around the world is the best proof that Prof Zoccali’s visions and intentions were timely and that his hard and dedicated work has paid off. Carmine - the renal commu-nity is very grateful for your efforts in creating and managing NDT-E so well!It is a great pleasure to take over the “NDT-E torch”, which is passed over to me in an excellent shape. It is my intention to keep NDT-E as a free-of-charge and updated internet-based tool that keeps spreading important scientific information and thereby helping the renal community to provide better care to patients with chronic kidney disease and hypertension. Any suggestions for the improvement of NDT-E will be greatly appreciated.

Passing the Baton ofNDT-Educational

From Peter Stenvinkel, Editor-in-Chief of NDT-Educational

Peter Stenvinkel

Young Authors of ERA-EDTA awarded abstracts

The authors of the abstracts below will receive a grant of EUR 1.000, free congress regi-stration and a diploma.

Allopurinol improves vascular function in patients with chronic kidney diseaseMichelle Pei Kao, Dundee, UK

Simple cystatin c formula compared to sophisticated creatinine and cystatin c-based formu-las (cKD-epi) for estimation of glomerular filtration rateSebastjan Bevc, Maribor, Slovenia

cardioprotective effects of calcineurin inhibition in an animal model of chronic kidney dise-aseGiovana Di Marco, Münster, Germany

Restoring cGMp levels in diabetic rats attenuates podocyte damageGabor Kokeny, Budapest, Hungary

protective effect of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSc) in experimental renal transplantationFrancesca Bosio, pavia, italy

Long-term glucose load predicts mortality in patients on chronic peritoneal dialysis – a 7-year cohort studyHon-Yen Wu, Banciao, Taipei, Taiwan

Spak knockout mice express Gitelman’s syndrome and impaired vasoconstrictionSung-Sen Yang, Taipei, Taiwan

OX40/OX40L costimulation potentiates acute cellular rejection in human renal allograftsC. Afaneh, New York, USA

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ERA-EDTA ElectionsERA-EDTA – 2010 ELECTIONS!This year the ERA-EDTA Full members will be asked to elect, not only the two new Ordinary Council Members, but also the five nominated members of the new ERA-EDTA Ethics Committee.

Ethics CommitteeHere are the names of the nominated candidates that will be elected by the ERA-EDTA General Assembly that will be held

during the up-coming Congress in Munich (ICM Congress Center, Room 4AB, June 23, 2010 – 10:30 am):- Jacques Bernheim (Israel);- Frieder Keller (Germany);- Krzysztof T. Marczewski (Poland);- Drasko Pavlovic (Croatia);- Richard S. Trompeter (U.K.).

Ordinary Council MembersHere instead are the five candidates for the two positions for the vacant Ordinary Council Membership:

- Peter Blankestijn (The Netherlands)- Eliezer Golan (Israel)- Marian Klinger (Poland)- Adalbert Schiller (Romania)- Mihai Voiculescu (Romania)

The on-line voting procedure for the election of these two new members was open from May 24, 2010 until June 21, 2010. All eli-gible voters received a personalized letter by post with the precise instructions on how to vote (including the personal username and password).On-site only the members who have not already voted will be able to cast their vote, but only the paper ballot will be available – this is also due to the extreme security measures in place for these elections.The voting station, next to the ERA-EDTA Membership Office, in the Registration Area will be open from 08:00 to 18:00 on June 25, 2010 (Friday), from 7:45 to 18:30 on June 26, 2010 (Saturday), from 7:45 to 18:30 on June 27, 2010 (Sunday) and also before the start of the General Assembly on June 28, 2010 (Monday) starting at 7:45 up to 10.30.A valid identification document (i.e. passport of national identity card) of the Full member who wishes to vote must be person-ally shown in order to vote. Vote by proxy is NOT possible.Full members can also vote immediately before the start of the ERA-EDTA General Assembly.

• Symposium “Protein bound uremic toxins (EUTox)”Saturday, June 26 - 11:15-12:45 hrsChairs: R. Vanholder (Belgium) and Z. Massy (France)Metabolism. R. Vanholder (Belgium)Protein bound uremic toxins. J. Jankowski (Germany)Removal of protein bound toxins by haemodialysis. H-D Lemke (Germany)New insights from clinical studies. Z. Massy (France)

• Symposium “European Cardiovascular and Renal Medicine (EURECA-M)”Saturday, June 26 - 17:00-18:30 hrsChairs: C. Zoccali (Italy) and G. London (France)EURECA-M mission and results of surveys. C. Zoccali (Italy)The potential of Registries for scientific research in cardiovascular and renal medicine. F. Dekker (Netherlands)Information provided by 24 h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. G. Parati (Italy)Potential and caveats on the use of Clinical Trials data-bases for secondary analyses in cardiovascular and renal medi-cine. J. Mann (Germany)

• Symposium “Immunonephrology”Sunday, June 27 - 16:45-18:15 hrsChairs: R. Coppo (Italy) and J. Scherberich (Germany)Organization and activities of the Immunonephrology Working Group. M. Daha (Netherlands)Proposal from the group: validation study of the clinico-pathological classification of IgAN in Europe. R. Coppo (Italy)Proposals of new collaborative studies on rare diseases and recurrent glomerular diseases after transplantation. J. Floege (Germany)Scientific fair: an opportunity to increase networking. L. Gesualdo (Italy)

ERA-EDTA Working Groups Activities during the Munich Congress

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Follow usThe official ERA-EDTA Newsletterfollowus@era-edta.orgwww.era-edta.org/followus.htm

Editor-in-Chief: Adrian CovicCo-Editor: Kostas SiamopoulosManaging Editor: Silvia MenoniGraphic design: PierLuigi Franchi

ERA-EDTAc/o ERA-EDTA Administrative OfficeVia Spolverini 243100 Parma - Italy

To be distributed free of charge to all ERA-EDTA members www.era-edta.org

ERA-EDTA NEXT CONGRESSES

Prague, CzeCh rePubliCJune 23 - 26, 2011

Congress President: Vladimir TesarCongress Secretary: Ivan Rychlikwww.eraedta2011.org

Paris, FranCeMay 24 - 27, 2012

Congress President: Pierre RoncoCongress Secretary: Dominique Chauveauwww.eraedta2012.org

ERA-EDTA 2009 Research Projects AwardedFrom Giovanni Cancarini, ERA-EDTA Council Member

In 2009 ERA-EDTA launched a new initiative aimed at promoting the visibility of the sci-entific European research potential in Nephrology: the ERA-EDTA Research Programme. This initiative had to contribute to the establishment of high-level European networks of Research in Nephrology including either Translational or Clinical Research Projects. All the projects had to be multi-National.The past call (July 1st 2009) granted three out of the nine submitted projects: here below is the ranking and the budget assigned to each one of them:

1. Vitamin K2 to slow vascular calcification in haemodialysis patientsProject submitted by: Prof. Jürgen FloegeAssigned budget: EUR 1.800.810,00

2. The cardiovascular comorbidity in children with chronic kidney disease (4C study)Project submitted by: Prof. Franz Schaefer Assigned budget: EUR 668.000,00

3. European validation study of the Oxford classification of IgA nephropathyProject submitted by: Prof. Rosanna Coppo (endorsed by the ERA-EDTA working group of Immununephrology)Assigned budget: EUR 190.000,00

For more information about this programme, please visit the Research Programme section of ERA-EDTA website: www.era-edta.org/ResearchProgramme.htm and keep it up to date so as not to lose the upcoming deadline that will be posted in the next few months.

Giovanni Cancarini

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