Program for all days

• Women in Nephrology (WIN): Breaking Barriers in Kidney Health - Gender Disparities in CKD and Dialysis
  MalaSachdeva Speaker United States
• WIN-India: The Social Construct of Organ Donation -Are Women Forced to Donate?
  PriyamvadaP S Speaker India
• WIN-Africa: Trials And Tribulations: Improving Randomized Controlled Trials- How Reporting Outcomes By Sex/gender Can Make A Difference, And Barriers To Inclusion
  KhalidaBulhan - Soki Speaker Kenya
• Q&A

• IgA Nephropathy Study: Current and Perspective
  XueqingYU Speaker China
• Optimizing Management of Lupus Nephritis – The Clinical, The Bytes and The Bench
  DesmondYap Speaker Hong Kong, China
• From Data to Discovery: Insights from ADPKD Registries Across the Asia-Pacific
  KornchanokVareesangthip Speaker kornchanok.ploy@gmail.comThailand
• Genetics of Chronic Kidney Disease in East Asians
  YukaSugawara Speaker Japan
• Q&A

• Key Changes in AKI and AKD Definitions and Prognosis
  SamiraBell Speaker United Kingdom
• Identifying and Preventing AKI and AKD in High-risk Scenarios
  MarliesOstermann Speaker United Kingdom
• Clinical Management of Acute Kidney Injury and Acute Kidney Disease
  VivekanandJha Speaker India
• Optimizing Kidney Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury and Acute Kidney Disease
  NattachaiSrisawat Speaker Thailand
• Q&A

• Introduction of the Lillian Jean Kaplan Prize for PKD & Award Presentation
  VicenteTorres Moderator United States
• Kaplan Prize winner: Disease modifying drugs for ADPKD: a rapidly evolving field.
  RonaldGansevoort Speaker Netherlands
• Platform trials in PKD: Opportunities and Challenges
  MegJardine Speaker Australia
• Is There a Role for SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP Analogues in Treating PKD
  MichelChonchol Speaker United States
• Q&A

• Key Takeaways from the 2026 WKD Editorial: Shaping the Future of Kidney Health
  DinaAbdellatif Speaker Egypt
• Kidney Health and Planetary Health: An Intricate Relationship
  NatarajanGopalakrishnan Speaker India
• How the Patient Voice Shapes Kidney Care and Research
  NicoleScholes-Robertson Speaker Australia
• Driving Change in Kidney Care: Lessons and Tools That Work
  Augusto CesarSoares dos Santos Junior Speaker Brazil
• Q&A

• Modern Management of Diabetic Kidney Disease: From Early Detection to Precision Therapy
  JanakaKaralliedde Speaker United Kingdom
• Beyond HbA1c: Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Kidney Disease Care
  JuliaMader Speaker Australia
• Drug Development in Diabetic Kidney Disease
  PeterRossing Speaker Denmark
• Q&A

• Autoantibodies Targeting Podocyte-specific Antigens in Primary Nephrotic Syndrome
  TobiasHuber Speaker Germany
• Insights from the Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE) and Cure Glomerulonephropathy (CureGN) groups
  AlessiaFornoni Speaker United States
• Podocyte-directed Progression of Kidney Injury in FSGS and DKD
  John CijiangHe Speaker United States
• Q&A

• Defining Vision and Scope
  PierreRonco Speaker France
• Introducing Kidney International Clinical Reports Journal
  SwapnilHiremath Speaker Canada
• Choosing the Right Nephrology Journal
  PierreRonco Speaker France
• How Editors Assess Manuscripts
  BradRovin Speaker United States
• Responding to Reviewer Comments
  JaiRadhakrishnan Speaker United States
• Dealing With Statistics in Kidney Research
  GermaineWong Speaker Australia
• From First Draft to First Author: Perspectives From a KI Editorial Fellow
  GriffithPerkins Speaker Australia
• Panel Discussion

• Shaping the Future of Kidney Regeneration
  TakashiYokoo Speaker Japan
• From iPS Cells to Kidneys: A Roadmap to Regeneration
  KenjiOsafune Speaker Japan
• Breakthrough Discoveries Shaping the Future of Kidney Repair
  YunXia Speaker xia_yun@a-star.edu.sgSingapore
• Cutting-Edge Strategies in Kidney Regeneration
  JonathanHimmelfarb Speaker jonathan.himmelfarb@mssm.eduUnited States
• Q&A

• A Novel Automated Immunoassay for Anti-nephrin Autoantibodies Using a Mutant Nephrin Antigen
  MasayaMuto Awardee Japan
• Targeting B Cells Upfront: Comparing Safety and Efficacy of Rituximab and Corticosteroids as a First Line Therapy in Newly Diagnosed Cases of Adult-onset Minimal Change Disease (B-ripp Study)
  PritiMeena Awardee India
• Molecular Mechanisms of Kidney Aging: From Bench to Bedside
  TakeshiYamamoto Speaker Japan
• Rethinking Goals of Care in Elderly Dialysis Patients
  HannahBeckwith Speaker United Kingdom
• Providing Care for the Aging Kidney in Low-resource Settings
  AhadQayyum Speaker Pakistan
• Synergy in Senescence: New Perspectives on Kidney Aging
  TakeshiYamamoto Speaker Japan

• Kidney International in Focus: Annual Highlights
  PierreRonco Speaker France
• ISN-KI Fellows: Showcasing Excellence, Part 1 — Pediatrics
  GabrielCara-Fuentes Speaker United States
• ISN-KI Fellows: Showcasing Excellence, Part 2 — Clinical Nephrology
  SaharKoubar Speaker United States
• ISN-KI Fellows: Showcasing Excellence Part 3 — Epidemiology & Clinical Trials
  DavidTunnicliffe Speaker Australia
• ISN-KI Fellows: Showcasing Excellence, Part 4 — Basic and Translational Science
  NahidTabibzadeh Speaker France
• Kidney International Reports in Focus: Annual Highlights
  JaiRadhakrishnan Speaker United States
• Kidney International Reports in Focus: Annual Highlights
  JaiRadhakrishnan Speaker United States
• Kidney International Reports in Focus: Annual Highlights
  JaiRadhakrishnan Speaker United States
• Celebrating Excellence: Best Reviewer Awards Presentation
  BradRovin Speaker United States
• Presentation of Basic Science Awards (Early Career Researcher Awards)
  BernhardDumoulin Speaker United States
• Presentation of Clinical Science Awards (Early Career Researcher Awards)
  Louis-CharlesDesbiens Speaker Canada
• ISN-KI Fellows: Where Are They Now?
  GermaineWong Speaker Australia

• Introduction
  NihalBashir Speaker nihalhamary@gmail.comUnited Arab Emirates
• Proposition Speech 1
  UgochiOnu Speaker Nigeria
• Opposition Speech 1
  HirakuTsujimoto Speaker Japan
• Rebuttal and Proposition Speech 2
  I-RuChen Speaker Taiwan
• Rebuttal and Opposition Speech 2
  Milagros MelissaFlores Fonseca Speaker Mexico
• Audience Participation And Questions From Judges
  KenjiMatsui Judge United States

  NihalBashir Judge United Arab Emirates
• Voting and Summary
• Announcement of Winner and Prize Presentation

• Supporting Patients in Choosing Peritoneal Dialysis as a Treatment Option
  RajnishMehrotra Speaker United States
• Person-centered Multidimensional Support for Patients on Home Dialysis
  RachaelWalker Speaker New Zealand
• Peritoneal Dialysis for Older Adults With Kidney Failure
  EdwinaBrown Speaker United Kingdom
• Hybrid Dialysis Models for Long-term Kidney Replacement Therapy
  YasuhikoIto Speaker Japan
• Q&A

• Advances in the Diagnosis and Detection of CKD
  LuxiaZhang Speaker China
• Advances in Understanding the Impact of Sex on Kidney Health and Disease
  KateStevens Speaker United Kingdom
• Advances in CKD Therapeutics in the Context of Complex Disease Interactions
  AndrejSkoberne Speaker Slovenia
• Q&A

• Emerging Treatments for Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome
  KoichiNAKANISHI Speaker Japan
• Therapies for Nephrotic Syndrome: Short‑Term Impact, Long‑Term Promise
  Identify opportunities to integrate short‑term treatment gains with long‑term management strategies
  RulanParekh Speaker Canada
• What Clinicians Should Know About Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibodies in Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome
  Eugene Yu HinChan Speaker Hong Kong, China
• Q&A

• Mandatory Reporting of Suspicious Transplant-related Cases
  Maria AmaliaMatamoros Speaker Costa Rica
• Incentives to Reduce Organ Shortage
  KhalidaBulhan - Soki Speaker Kenya
• Addressing Inequities to Prevent Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism
  LiliaCervantes Speaker United States
• Q&A

• Why Implementation Science Matters in Acute Kidney Care
  YuvaramReddy Speaker United States
• What Is the Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) and Why Do We Need ADQI XXXV?
  MarliesOstermann Speaker United Kingdom
• What Did We Learn From ADQI XXXV?
  OleksaRewa Speaker Canada
• Q&A

• Global Snapshot of Pregnancy-associated Acute Kidney Injury: Results From the 2025 Global Survey
  KatherineClark Speaker United Kingdom
• Improving Pregnancy-related Kidney Disease Diagnosis
  RashaShemies Speaker Egypt
• Emerging Strategies for CKD Care During Pregnancy
  DIVYABAJPAI Speaker India
• Q&A

• Using Causal Inference to Study Gender Gaps in Transplant Access
  JessicaHarding Speaker United States
• Pragmatic Medicine: Learning From the Indian Experience
  Shyam BihariBansal Speaker India
• Helping Patients Manage Medications and Complex Health Systems
  GermaineWong Speaker Australia
• Reducing the Environmental Footprint in Transplantation
  IvoLaranjinha Speaker Portugal
• Q&A

• Dialysis Membranes and Patient Survival
  AbeMasanori Speaker Japan
• Sex-specific Outcomes and Prognosis in Dialysis Care
  SaoriNishio Speaker Japan
• Practical Aspects of Preserving the Peritoneal Dialysis Membrane
  Ana Elizabeth Figueiredo Speaker Brazil

• The ISN Role in Humanitarian Kidney Care
  AliAbu-Alfa Speaker abualfa@aub.edu.lbLebanon
• Disaster Preparedness in Kidney Care: Pitfalls and Solutions
  SerhanTuglular Speaker Turkey
• Earthquake Disaster: Lessons Learnt from Japan
  KeiFukami Speaker Japan
• Resilient Kidney Care: Adaptation and Recovery After a Disaster
  SabineKaram Speaker United States
• Q&A