Past, Present & Future of Kidney Replacement Therapy: It started in Kampen ![/htmlfiles/symposium/nextgen.jpg nextgen]()
Date: June 24th, 2025
Location: Kampen, the Netherlands
Program
9:30 Welcome:
Derk Meulman (MD), chairman Willem Kolff Foundation
9:35 Opening remarks:
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)
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
12:10 Miniaturization by dialysate regeneration
Christian Blüchel (PhD), NextKidney, the Netherlands, Singapore office
12:30 Newly developed portable machines
Karin Gerritsen (MD, PhD), UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
13:10 Bridge to future developments
Fokko Wieringa (PhD), IMEC, Eindhoven & Associate Prof. UMC Utrecht
13:20 Lunch
14:30 Award ceremony Willem Kolff prize
By Derk Meulman (MD) and Sander de Rouwe, Mayor of Kampen
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
Fokko Wieringa (PhD), IMEC, Eindhoven
16:45 Transatlantic cooperation for an implantable artificial kidney
Murray Sheldon (MD), FDA-CDRH, Washington DC, USA
17:10 Stimulating innovations in health care
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