Scientific Programme

27 April 2022

17.00-17.45

Opening session including keynote address

Opening remarks: Mrs Martine Pergent (IPOPI President) and Mr
Johan Prevot (IPOPI Executive Director)
Keynote speech “PIDs across the age spectrum” – Prof. Klaus Warnatz

17.45-19.00

Session 1: PIDs and Allergies – Exploring the crossover!
Chairs: Dr Nizar Mahlaoui and Dr Nicholas Brodszki

Epidemiological overview of PIDs and Allergies
When is allergy a PID and when is it just allergy? – Dr Anna Sediva
Asthma, chronic obstructive lung issues and PIDs – Dr Leif Hanitsch
Dermatological allergic manifestations in PIDs – Prof Raffaele Badolato

19.15

Welcome Reception at the Congress Venue

28 April 2022

08.00-08.30

Guided Poster Walk

08.30-10.00

Session 2: Management of Gastrointestinal and Hepatic manifestations in PIDs

Chairs: Prof Sergio Rosenzweig and TBC

The interplay between the gastrointestinal tract and the immune system – Prof Harry Sokol
How to manage? – Prof Isabella Quinti
Explorations and treatment pathways including transplantation and conditioning – Dr Lizzy Rivers
Patient Testimony

10.00-10.30

Coffee Break and Guided Poster Walks

10.30-12.00

Session 3: The Usual Suspects

Chairs: Prof Stephen Jolles and TBC

Genetic diagnosis – Dr Sophie Hambleton
Malignancy spectrum of PIDs – Dr Ton Langerak
Autoimmunity and autoinflammation manifestations

13.00-14.15

Lunch and Poster Walk

14.15-15.15

Session 4: Regional Diagnosis and Clinical Challenges Session

Chairs: Prof Martin van Hagen and TBC

APSID Lecture Prof Surjit Singh
CIS Lecture Prof Sergio Rosenzweig
LASID Dr Liliana Bezrodnik

15.45-16.15

Coffee Break and Guided Poster Walks

16.15-17.30

Session 5: Treatment advances in specific PID management

Chairs: Dr Virgil Dalm and TBC

CGD latest management advances – Prof Horst von Bernuth
ALPS: reaching new heights! – Dr Olaf Neth
T-cell lymphopenia: How TRECs modify the management of these patients – Prof Stephan Ehl
Update on IUIS classification: will it open new PID management pathways? – Prof Steven Holland

20.00

Congress Dinner (venue to be announced)

29 April 2022

09.00-10.30

Session 6: Ethical considerations

Chairs: Prof Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles and TBC

Topics TBA

Invited panel: Prof Bobby Gaspar, Ethicist James Taylor, Prof Alain Fischer, Dr Adli Ali and TBC

10.30-11.00

Coffee break and Guided Poster Walks

11.00-12.30

Session 7: The quest for a cure to primary immunodeficiencies…

Chairs: Prof Anna Shcherbina and TBC

Cell therapy and PIDs – Dr Luigi Notarangelo
Bone Marrow Transplantation in adults – Prof Felipe Suarez
Thymic Transplantation
Gene Therapy and Gene Editing – Prof Alain Fischer

12.30-13.45

Lunch and Poster Walk

14.45-15.15

Young PID investigators: poster winners’ session

15.15-15.45

Coffee break and Guided Poster Walks

15.45-17.00

Session 8: Management of viral infections in PIDs

Chairs: Prof Steven Holland and Prof Surjit Singh

COVID-19 and PIDs! – Prof Martin van Hagen
CMV and EBV management in PIDs – Dr Romain Levy
Management of respiratory and entero-viruses in PIDs – Prof Stephen Jolles

17.00-17.45

Closure talk (Chair: TBC):

“Horizon 2040: what can PID genetics studies tell us about the future?”