2022 NephroCAGE Symposium

It is a pleasure to invite to participate to the 2nd International NephroCAGE Symposium taking place on Aug 16, 2022 in an online format. Join us to learn more about the clinical impact of artificial intelligence for kidney transplantations. You will have the opportunity to join our international speakers and get in touch with subject-matter experts from nephrology, artificial intelligence and software engineering. It is a great opportunity to network and get in touch with experts from the NephroCAGE consortium.

The German-Canadian consortium NephroCAGE is cooperating to demonstrate the added value of artificial intelligence (AI) using the concrete clinical example of kidney transplantation. Inadequate kidney function requires regular dialysis: there are currently around 100,000 dialysis patients in Germany, and around half that number in Canada. Dialysis costs approximately 30-40k EUR per patient per year. In comparison, a kidney transplant costs around 15-20 thousand euros. In 2019, more than 2,100 kidney transplants were performed in Germany (German Organ Transplant Foundation) and more than 1,700 in Canada (Canadian Institute for Health in Canada). However, suitable donor organs are rare: in Germany, for example, there are more than 7,000 patients on a waiting list, and in Canada more than 3,000. Even after a transplant, there is a risk of complications that can lead to severe limitations in kidney function or, in the worst case, even total loss of the organ.