Past, Present & Future of Kidney Replacement Therapy

It started in Kampen - June 24th, 2025 in Kampen, the Netherlands

  9:30 Welcome:

Derk Meulman (MD), chairman Willem Kolff Foundation

  9:35 Opening remarks by our moderator:

Tom Oostrom, Director Dutch Kidney Foundation

PAST

  9:40 It happened in 1945:

The first patient who survived acute renal failure by hemodialysis - Joop Offerman (MD, PhD), Zwolle, the Netherlands

  10:00 Videos of 4 patient associations:

Poland (OSMN), United Kingdom (Kidney Care UK), Canada (Kidney Alliance) & USA (AAKP). Kolff built 4 extra hemodialysis machines at his own costs and sent them to these 4 countries, whose soldiers liberated the Netherlands. Closes with a call for innovation by Dutch kidney patient Patrick van Dorst.

  10:20 The first hemodialysis in the USA: 1947 and beyond

Prof. Jonathan Himmelfarb (MD, PhD), Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, USA

  10:45 Invention of the shunt:

The permanent vascular access enabling chronic hemodialysis - Prof. Buddy Ratner (PhD), Washington University, Seattle, USA

  11:10 Coffee break

PRESENT

  11:50 Vascular access: Present and future

Prof. Joris Rotmans (PhD), LUMC Leiden, the Netherlands & President Vascular Access Society

  12:10 Miniaturization by dialysate regeneration

Christian Blüchel (PhD), NextKidney, the Netherlands, Singapore office

  12:30 Newly developed portable machines for hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis

Karin Gerritsen (MD, PhD), UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands & PI NXTGEN “artificial organs”

  12:50 Wearable peritoneal dialysis device, created via the Malaysian innovation model

Prof. Azrul Azlan Hamzah (PhD), IMEN & Universiti Kebangsaan, Bangi, Malaysia

  13:10 Bridge to future developments

Fokko Wieringa (PhD), IMEC, Eindhoven & Associate Prof. UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands

  13:20 Lunch

  14:30 Award ceremony Willem Kolff prize

By Derk Meulman (MD), Chairman Willem Kolff Foundation and Sander de Rouwe, Mayor of Kampen

  15:00 Applying the lessons from Kolff and Scribner to create a better future

Steve Ash (MD), Ash Access Technologies, Lafayette, Indiana, USA

FUTURE

  15:30 Via portable & wearable hemodialysis towards implantable solutions

Prof. Shuvo Roy (PhD), UCSF, San Francisco, USA

  15:55 Tea break

  16:20 NXTGEN Hightech & KIDNEW projects, working towards implantable hemodialysis

Fokko Wieringa (PhD), IMEC, Eindhoven & Chairman of EKHA WG3 “Breakthrough Innovation”

  16:45 Transatlantic or even world-wide coopetition for an implantable artificial kidney

Murray Sheldon (MD), FDA-CDRH, Washington DC, USA

  17:10 Stimulating innovations in health care, the Dutch approach to partnerships

Prof. dr. Nico L.U. van Meeteren, Executive Director & Secretary General, Health~Holland

  17:30 Closing remarks

Tom Oostrom, Director Dutch Kidney Foundation

  17:40 Drinks & Visit to preserved office of Dr. Kolff

Group photo at the old hospital “Engelenberg”

  18:30 Bus back to Enschede