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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Basic Science

Tissue Is the Issue: How Kidney Physiology Impacts Immunity

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Central Time
CE: 1

    Moderator(s)

  • TL

    Theresa Lu, MD;PhD

    Hospital for Special Surgery
    NEW YORK, NY, United States

    Disclosure(s): Mestag Therapeutics: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing)

  • JT

    Jeremy Tilstra, MD

    University of Pittsburgh
    Pittsburgh, PA, United States

    Disclosure(s): Souffle theraputics: Consultant (Ongoing)

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • JT

    Jeremy Tilstra, MD

    University of Pittsburgh
    Pittsburgh, PA, United States

    Disclosure(s): Souffle theraputics: Consultant (Ongoing)

The immune cells within lupus kidneys and how they act to contribute to nephritis remains poorly understood. This session will feature exciting new discoveries on the rules that govern human renal inflammation and the regulation of antigen-specific effector T cell trafficking and function.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the role of the blood vasculature in renal physiology
  • Describe the consequences of abnormal lymphatic development to renal function
  • Describe how T-cell functional phenotype is linked to T-cell trafficking to the kidney in lupus

Presentations:

  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Central Time
    Principal Immune Cell Trajectories in Human Lupus Nephritis

    Speaker: Marcus Clark, MD – University of Chicago

  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Central Time
    Trafficking of Immune Cells into the Kidney in SLE

    Speaker: Joe Craft, MD – Yale University