The ESAO One Day on the Liver 2008 in Geneva - Thursday, Sept. 4th, 2008

As all the recent years the “One day on the liver” – a day dedicated to liver support systems and therapeutic strategies in the case of a failing liver - will take place during the ESAO 2008 meeting in Geneva.
For the first time we organised the "Young investigators' Liver Session". We asked the heads of several groups working in the field to send one of their best students to present their latest results. This session is dedicated to PhD students and is chaired by PhD students involved in liver support research. Of course all participants of the meeting are invited to attend!

The ESAO One Day on the Liver 2008 (ODOL) will take place Thursday, Sept. 4th, 2008.

08:30 – 09:30     Plenary Session        Chair: Falkenhagen, Demartines, Dayer

Extracorporeal liver support - back from bed to bench?
Igor M. Sauer, Berlin (GER)

Liver transplant: what does the future hold?
Philippe Morel, Geneva (SUI)

Organ printing: directed tissue self-assembly
Vladimir Mironov, Charlston (USA)

12:00 – 13:30     Lunch Symposium        Chair: Falkenhagen, Hadengue
                           Extracorporeal Blood Circuits for Liver Failure Therapies

Clinical experience with extracorporeal liver assist devices
Igor M. Sauer, Berlin (GER)

Technical advances to improve the performance of the prometheus system
Horst Christmann, Bad Homburg (GER)

Optimizing anticoagulation in extra-corporeal blood circuits for liver failure therapy
Peter Krisper, Graz (AUT)

13:30 – 15:00        Scientific Session        Chair: Sauer, Berney

A new application of the AMC-bioartificial liver: a model to study the establishment of metabolic zonation in the liver
Ruurdtje Hoekstra, Amsterdam (NLD)
P. P. C. Poyck - G. Nibourg - J. L. Vermeulen - A. C. van Wijk - R. A. Chamuleau - T. B. Hakvoort - T. M. van Gulik - W. H. Lamers

A new system of sub-normotermic perfusion for liver preservation in a pig mode
Enrico Gringeri, Padova (ITA)
A. Carraro - D. Bassi - F. E. D'Amico - F. Calabrese - D. Neri - P. Violi - M. Valmasoni - A. Vitale - F. D'Amico - U. Cillo

Transplantation of immortalized human hepatocytes improves survival without increase of native liver regeneration in acute liver failure
Antonino Sgroi, Geneva (SUI)
G. Mai - P. Morel - R. Baertschiger - C. Gonelle-Gispert - V. Serre-Beinier - L. Buhler

Behaviour of human hepatocyte in ammonia plasma-grafted peek-wc-pu membrane bio-hybrid system
Simona Salerno, Rende, CS (ITA)
A. Piscioneri - S. Morelli - S. Laera - M. Rende - P. Favia - E. Drioli - A. Bader - L. De Bartolo

Labelling of primary human hepatocytes with micron-sized iron oxide particles in temporary suspension culture
Nora N. Kammer, Berlin (GER)
N. Billecke - N. Raschzok - M. H. Morgul - M. K. Adonopoulou - I. M. Sauer

Online HDF system with good removal capacity of glutamine brings good clinical effect
Kazuaki Inoue, Yokohama (JPN)
M. Yamada - M. Yoshiba

16:00 – 17:30        Young Investigator’s Liver Session    Chair: Kammer, Salerno

Beyond haematology: cord blood for liver therapy
Saba Habibollah, Newcastle (GBR)

The multicompartment SlideReactor: a novel concept for continuous monitoring of co-cultured cells
Nils Billecke, Berlin (GER)

Growth characterisation of hepatocarcinoma cells cultivated in a microfluidic biochip
Jean-Mathieu Prot, Compiègne (FRA)

Membrane biohybrid systems for liver tissue engineering
Simona Salerno, Rende (ITA)

Encapsulated liver cells for the hybrid MDS
Stephan Harm, Krems (AUT)