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Tuesday October 15th

Opening Plenary Session
10:30	Introduction to Conference - Susan Francis, Nicholas Selby & Steven Sourbron
10:40	Update from the PARENCHIMA programme - Anna Caroli
10:50	Update from United Kingdom Renal Imaging Network- Susan Francis
11:00	Perspectives from NIDDK Renal Imaging Workshop - Pottumarthi Prasad
11:10	Introduction to MRI techniques (MRI for the non-expert) - Nicolas Grenier
11:30	Overview of the clinical need for renal MRI - Keith Gillis

12:00 - Lunch and Posters

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD)
13:00	Clinical overview: CKD and DKD - Phil Kalra
13:20	Pathophysiology of CKD progression - Maarten Taal
13:40	Applications of MRI to CKD: evidence to date - Sophie de Seigneux
14:00	Application of MRI to DKD: evidence to date - Aghogho Odudu
14:20	Panel discussion

14:30 - Coffee

MRI for the Non-Expert
15:00	Diffusion Imaging - Jean Paul Vallee
15:20	T₁ and T_{2 Mapping- Ilona Dekkers}
15:40	Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) - Manuel Taso
16:00	Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) Imaging - Menno Pruijm

16:20 - 16:50 - Power pitches
16:50 - 17:00 - Break

Working Group 1 and 2 Themed Sessions
17:00	Working group 1 update - Christoffer Laustsen (Improve the standardisation and reproducibility of renal MRI biomarkers through consenus-based technical recommendations.)
	Acquisition recommendations: ASL - María Fernández‐Seara
	Acquisition recommendations: BOLD - Pottumarthi Prasad
	Acquisition recommendations: DWI - Alexandra Ljimani
	Acquisition recommendations: T₁/T₂ - Susan Francis
17:30	Working group 2 update - Frank Zoellner (Increase the availability of renal MRI biomarkers by developing an open-access toolbox for research and development.)
	Computational power pitches

Wednesday October 16th

08:00 - 10:00 - COST management committee meeting

Transplantation
10:00	Clinical overview: Transplantation - Cyril Moers
10:20	Pre-clinical transplantation - Bente Jespersen
10:40	Applications of MRI to renal transplantation - evidence to date - Alexandra Ljimani
11:00	Quality in Organ Donation (QUOD) - Maria Kaisar

11:15 - Coffee
11:45 - Power pitches and short term scientific missions
12:45 - Lunch and Posters

Emerging Techniques
14:00	23Na MRI - Armin Nagel
14:15	Magnetisation Transfer (MT) and Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) - Dario Longo
14:30	Molecular imaging - Jim Wild
14:45	Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) - Stephan Garcia
15:00	Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) - Eric Bechler
15:15	Nephron number and new imaging techniques for histology specimens - Norbert Gretz

15:30 - Coffee

Themed Sessions
16:00	Working Group 3 Update - Nicholas Selby/Anna Caroli (Join up clinical sites across Europe and pave the way for clinical use of renal MRI.)
16:10	Working Group 4 Update - Andreas Pohlmann (Development of training programs on renal MRI for basic scientists and clinical users.)
16:20	Working Group 5 Update - Marcos Wolf (Build an international multi-disciplinary community of stakeholders in renal MRI.)
16:30	Break Out Working Groups

Working Group Break Out Sessions
	WG 1 & WG 2	WG 3
16:30	Procedure for updating and maintenance of existing recommendations. - Steven Sourbron Formations of new recommendations initiatives. - Christoffer Laustsen	Strategy for setup of international studies. Inventory of ongoing studies and document repository. Consensus recommendations in biomarkers. Updates of tesk forces on ADPK and Transplantation
17:30	Task force 1.1: Procedures for data submission, inventory of candidate databases, planning of meeting in march. - Frank Zoellner Task force 1.2: Redesign and definition of aims around software evaluation. - Peter Rogelj

19:00 - Pre-Dinner Drinks
19:30 - Dinner

Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
09:00	Clinical Overview - John Prowle
09:20	Histopathology of AKI - Peter Boor
09:40	Preclinical AKI models - Rachel Harwood
10:00	Applications of MRI to AKI - evidence to date - Andrea Fekete
10:20	The speakers from this session will be joined by Andrew Lewington and Nicholas Selby for a panel discussion

10:45 - Coffee

Imaging Outside of the Kidney
11:15	Cardiac and cardiorenal syndrome - Patrick Mark
11:35	Vascular (including reno-vascular) - Anneloes de Boer
11:55	New insights into imaging techniques to improve Arterio-Venous Fistula (AVF) outcome - Michela Bozzetto
12:15	MR Imaging in dialysis patients - Eleanor Cox

12:30 - Lunch

MRI Clinical Research
13:30	MRI in drug development pathways - Robert Unwin
13:45	Clinical trial design for MRI studies - Richard Haynes
14:00	Radiology - How will functional renal MRI be used in practice? - Doug Pendse
14:15	ADPKD and clinical trials - Progress and future directions - Roz Simms

Closing Plenary: Future Directions of Renal MRI - Steven Sourbron

15:00 - Close