ICHS 2024

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

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04.04.2024
 05.04.2024
 06.04.2024
 07.04.2024
04.04.2024
08:30 - 12:00

Registration and room finding

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04.04.2024
14:00 - 16:00
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Pre-Congress Symposium

Organized by Turkish Febrile Neutropenia Society

Update on febrile neutropenia and immunosuppression

*Moderators : Hamdi Akan Murat Akova
Secular trends in bacterial resistance Ömrüm Uzun
Surveillance and infection prevention of VRE and CRE in cancer patients Gökhan Metan
Who needs ultra-fast diagnosis of bloodstream infections? Maurizio Sanguinetti
Rare yeast infections in patients with hematological malignancies Marisa Miceli
Trends in cancer in people living with HIV Volkan Korten
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04.04.2024
16:00 - 16:30
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Opening Ceremony

*Moderator : Murat Akova
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04.04.2024
16:30 - 18:00
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Plenary Session

New horizons in infection and transplantation

*Moderators : Murat Akova Roy Fouad Chemaly
Xenotransplantation Jay Fishman
Use of artificial intelligence in infectious diseases epidemiology Carolina Garcia Vidal
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05.04.2024
08:00 - 09:00
Antalya 1 Hall

Meet the Expert

Changing epidemiology of viral cutaneous skin infections in immunocompromised

Sibel Doğan
Steven A. Pergam
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Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

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Advanced diagnostic assays for ESKAPE pathogens in transplantation

Adrian Egli
Maurizio Sanguinetti
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05.04.2024
09:00 - 10:30
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Plenary Session

Protecting patients from viral infections

*Moderators : Roy Fouad Chemaly Hans H. Hirsch
The path forward for monoclonals Robin Avery
Persistently SARS-CoV-2 positive patients Malgorzata Mikulska
Pre-emptive therapy vs. prophylaxis for CMV: Which way to go? Michelle Yong
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05.04.2024
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

(Poster Walk / Industry Exhibition)

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05.04.2024
11:00 - 12:00
Antalya 1 Hall

Plenary Session

How am I going to manage these difficult cases in immunocompromised hosts?

*Moderators : Robin Avery Roy Fouad Chemaly
Difficult-to-treat viral infection M. Veronica Dioverti
Difficult-to-treat fungal infection Fareed Khawaja
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05.04.2024
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch Break

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05.04.2024
13:30 - 15:00
Antalya 1 Hall

Parallel Session

Infectious diseases consultation in an era of biological and targeted therapies (In collaboration with ESGICH and ESGREV of ESCMID)

*Moderators : Maddalena Gianella Steven A. Pergam
Agents with intracellular signalling: Tyrosine kinase and mTOR inhibitors Paolo Antonio Grossi
Soluble immune effector molecules: Agents targeting interleukins, immunoglobulins and complement factors Mario Fernández Ruiz
Other targeted therapies: Immune checkpoint inhibitors, sphingosine 1-Phospate receptor modulators and proteasome inhibitors Dimitrios Kontoyiannis
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Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Parallel Session

Novel candidate vaccines for viral infections: Challenges and promises

*Moderators : Volkan Korten Michelle Yong
RSV and other novel respiratory virus vaccines Michael G. Ison
New vaccines for CMV Ajit Limaye
Vaccines against hepatitis C Andrea Lynn Cox
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05.04.2024
15:00 - 16:30
Antalya 1 Hall

Parellel Session

Treatment of febrile neutropenia in 2024

*Moderators : Alpay Azap Malgorzata Mikulska
In high-resistance setting Nicolas Müller
In low-resistance setting Abby Douglas
In pediatric patient population Thomas Lehrnbecher
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Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Parallel Session

When to say yes? Accepting donors with infections or colonizations (In collaboration with TID of TTS)

*Moderators : Michael G. Ison Ban Hock Tan
Donors with hepatitis or HIV Christine Durand
Donors colonized / infected with fungi Ban Hock Tan
Donors with COVID-19 Paolo Antonio Grossi
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05.04.2024
16:30 - 17:00

Coffee Break / Poster Walk

(Posters / Industry Exhibition)

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05.04.2024
17:00 - 18:15
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Awards Session - 1

ICHS Lifetime Achievement Award, Virology Awards 1

*Moderators : Murat Akova Roy Fouad Chemaly Hans H. Hirsch
Presentation of the Awards (17:00 - 17:15)
Keynote: History of ICHS from the foundation to the future Carol Kauffman (17:15 - 17:45)
Letermovir vs. valganciclovir for prophylaxis of cytomegalovirus in high-risk kidney transplant recipients: A randomized clinical trial Ajit Limaye (17:45 - 18:15)
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06.04.2024
08:00 - 09:00
Antalya 1 Hall

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Challenges in managing RSV, metapneumovirus and parainfluenza virus: Treat or not to treat? (In collaboration with ESGREV of ESCMID) Session supported by ADMA Biologics

Roy Fouad Chemaly
Michael G. Ison
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Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

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The toughest of the tough: What options when nothing seems to work in invasive fungal infections?

Marisa Miceli
Dimitrios Kontoyiannis
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06.04.2024
09:00 - 11:00
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Clinical Grand Rounds

*Moderators : Malgorzata Mikulska Michelle Yong
*Panelists : Dimitrios Kontoyiannis Thomas Lehrnbecher Monica Slavin Ömrüm Uzun
Case 1 Dimitrios Kontoyiannis (09:00 - 09:20)
Case 2 Gemma K. Reynolds (09:20 - 09:40)
Case 3 Gülçin Telli Dizman (09:40 - 10:00)
Case 4 Matteo Cerchiaro (10:00 - 10:20)
Case 5 Benhur Şirvan Çetin (10:20 - 10:40)
Case 6 Paola Della Siega (10:40 - 11:00)
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06.04.2024
11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

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06.04.2024
11:30 - 12:30
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Awards Session - 2

Junior Investigator Award and Virology Awards 2

*Moderators : Roy Fouad Chemaly Hans H. Hirsch
Going Viral: Infections, Prevention, and Vaccines after HCT and CAR-T Joshua Hill
“Previous immunity shapes immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster vaccination and Omicron breakthrough infection risk” Laura Pérez Alós
Peter Garred
Caroline Hillenbrand
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06.04.2024
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch Break

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06.04.2024
13:30 - 14:30
Antalya 1 Hall

Parellel Session

The tales behind these naughty viruses

*Moderators : Saima Aslam Michelle Yong
Update on BK polyomavirus complications in transplant recipients Hans H. Hirsch
Update on hepatitis viruses in transplant patients Andrea Lynn Cox
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Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Parellel Session

New frontiers in the diagnostics: Beyond culture based methods in clinical mycology (In collaboration with ECMM)

*Moderators : Sevtap Arıkan Akdağlı Adrian Egli
Candida infections Ana Alastruey-ızquierdo
Invasive mold infections Jürgen Prattes
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06.04.2024
14:30 - 15:30
Antalya 1 Hall

Parellel Session

How much new diagnostic techniques can contribute to improve the management of infections in immunocompromised patients?

*Moderators : Nicolas Müller Steven A. Pergam
How NGS can improve our daily activity? Adrian Egli
Performance of point of care molecular and antigen-based tests for respiratory viruses Steven A. Pergam
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Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Parellel Session

Understanding antifungal resistance: How to translate to your clinical practice?

*Moderators : Marisa Miceli Ömrüm Uzun
In candida Ana Alastruey-ızquierdo
In molds Sevtap Arıkan Akdağlı
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06.04.2024
15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break / Poster Walk

(Poster Walk / Industry Exhibition)

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06.04.2024
16:00 - 17:00
Antalya 1 Hall

Parellel Session

New antifungals: What is here, what is in the horizon?

*Moderators : Sevtap Arıkan Akdağlı Marisa Miceli
Drugs closer to approval / recently approved Monica Slavin
Updates from recent clinical trials with new antifungals Andreas Groll
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Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Parellel Session

Infections in primary immundeficiency

*Moderators : Hans H. Hirsch Steven A. Pergam
CMV Michelle Yong
EBV Christian Münz
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06.04.2024
17:00 - 18:30
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Plenary Session

Genetic markers and immunotherapy in immunodeficiency

*Moderators : Hans H. Hirsch Michelle Yong
Big genetic data prior to transplantation: Facts and promises for risk and management of infectious complications Pierre Yves Bochud
Immunotherapy for invasive fungal infections: Promises and challenges Dimitrios Kontoyiannis
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06.04.2024
18:30 - 19:00
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

ICHS General Assembly

*Moderator : Murat Akova
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07.04.2024
08:00 - 09:00
Antalya 1 Hall

Meet the Expert

Infection prevention and outbreak control in mycology

Malgorzata Mikulska
Andreas Groll
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Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

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Bacterial infections of regional importance in immunocompromised

Önder Ergönül
Maddalena Gianella
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07.04.2024
09:00 - 10:30
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Plenary Session

Practice changing papers in immunocompromised host: 2023-24

*Moderators : Murat Akova Hans H. Hirsch
Saima Aslam
Maddalena Gianella
Thomas Lehrnbecher
Marisa Miceli
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07.04.2024
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

(Poster Walk / Industry Exhibition)

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07.04.2024
11:00 - 12:00
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Awards Session

Best Abstracts of the Selected Posters

*Moderators : Murat Akova Hans H. Hirsch
Abby Douglas
Aleece Macphail
Dimitrios Kontoyiannis
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07.04.2024
12:00 - 12:30
Main Hall / İstanbul 1 Hall

Closing Ceremony

*Moderators : Murat Akova
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