Thursday
September 18, 2025
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Optional:
IFPA Run Club
09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Kaisersaal
Plenary Session I – Emerging methods and novel technologies
Development of an Artificial Placenta System: A Joint Clinical and Technical Perspective
Christoph Fusch and Niels Rochow (Nürnberg, Germany) and Jutta Arens (Enschede, The Netherlands)
Ex vivo placental perfusion meets machine learning
Christian Wadsack and Stefan Posch (Graz, Austria)
AI-based automated placenta explant sampling
Andreas Schober (Ilmenau, Germany)
Innovative technology to isolate placental extracellular vesicles from blood and other samples using a microfluidic device, separation based on electrophoretic mobility, and using mass spectrometry as read out
Thomas Hankemeyer (Leiden, The Netherlands)
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Elsevier Placenta New Investigator Award Presentations - Part 1
Leveraging a placental microphysiological system for placental toxicology studies
Manuel Jr Vidal (Manila, Philippines)
SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy induces ferroptosis and long-term changes in placental iron storage
Eliza McColl (Houston, USA)
Two circulations one goal: Impaired oxygen transfer in placentae with compromised maternal venous return in pregnancies with high risk for stillbirth
Dimitrios Amanitis (Nottingham, UK)
Targeted lipid nanoparticle delivery of short interfering RNA to treat preeclampsia
Maya Robertson (Melbourne, Australia)
Placental small extracellular vesicles alter gene expression and cellular function of pericytes in normotensive pregnancy and preeclampsia
Angga Lokeswara (Oxford, UK)
Disrupted lymphatic mimicry impairs spiral artery remodeling and results in reduced uterine NK cell infiltration in preeclamptic mice
Charlotte Mohr (Essen, Germany)
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Placenta Editorial Board Meeting
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 1
Charis:
Nick Illsley (New Brunswick, USA)
Stefan Hansson (Lund, Sweden)
Tina Bürki-Tunherr (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Placental Adaptation After Environmental Exposure – A Tale of Two Particles
Phoebe Stapleton (New Brunswick, USA)
Early Life Impact of Diesel Exhaust Particles: Placental Accumulation, Fetal Transfer, and Maternal-Fetal Crosstalk Disruption
Tina Bürki-Tunherr (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Uptake and Toxicity of Micro- and Nanoplastics in the Human Placenta: Emerging Concerns for Maternal-Fetal Health
Hanna Dusza (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Salon Paganini
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 2
Chairs:
Thomas Kroneis (Graz, Austria)
Diana Morales Prieto (Jena, Germany)
Microchimerism and cardiovascular diseases
Daniel Pitz Jacobsen (Oslo, Norway)
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Whitney Harrington (Seattle, USA)
Trafficking across the placenta – the concept of the spatio-temporal corridor of MC
Thomas Kroneis (Graz, Austria)
Placenta perfusion
Diana Morales Prieto (Jena, Germany)
Salon Liszt
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 3
Chairs:
José Martín Murrieta Coxca (Jena, Germany)
Gendie Lash (Guangzhou, China)
Carlos Alonso Escudero Orozco CA (Chillán, Chile)
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Larry Chamley (Auckland, New Zealand)
Placental extracellular vesicles promote cardiomyocyte maturation and fetal heart development
Stephen Renaud (Kingston, Canada)
EVT-exosomes inducing VSMC apoptosis through miR-143-3p and FAS ligand – with roles in spiral artery remodeling
Gendie Lash (Guangzhou, China)
sEV-mediated extrusion of harmful lipid peroxides from trophoblast cells in preeclampsia
Isabella Caniggia (Toronto, Canada)
placental extracellular vesicles can impair the blood-brain barrier in the setting of preeclampsia
Carlos Alonso Escudero Orozco CA (Chillán, Chile)
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Elsevier Trophoblast Research Award Lecture
Activin-Follistatin-like 3 Dialog at the Uterine-Placental Interface Impacts Deep Hemochorial Placentation
Mikaela Simon (Kansas City, USA)
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Poster Session
8:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
New Investigators Function
