Registration for the World Congress of Nephrology 2027 (WCN’27) of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 1 to 4 April 2027, is now officially open.
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SCHOOL DIRECTORS

Laura Barisoni, M.D.
Duke University, Durham, NC (USA)

Loreto Gesualdo, M.D.
University of Bari (Italy)

Andrew Janowczyk, PhD.
Emory University, GA (USA)

Matthias Kretzler, M.D., PhD.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (USA)

Surya V. Seshan, M.D.
Cornell University, NY (USA)

SCHOOL FRAMEWORK

The CME-accredited International Summer School of Renal Pathology & Precision Medicine (ISSRPPM) will be held at Mercure Villa Romanazzi Carducci in Bari in August and September 2026 with state-of-the-art facilities. This educational endeavor is dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving management of kidney disease. The school builds on previous experience gained through the International Summer School of Renal Pathology (ISSRP) since 2011 and aims to train the next generation of renal pathologists to practice integrated nephropathology.

The school will be organized in 4 modules: 

  • Precision Medicine – Basic Concepts from tissue procurement to data extraction and analysis
  • Pathology of Native Kidney Diseases with clinico-patholologic and molecular correlation
  • Digital Pathology and Image Analysis of Kidney Diseases
  • Molecular Nephropathology & Data Integration

Each module will include:

  • Formal educational lectures
    – Renal Pathology
    – Image analysis
    – Omics technologies
  • Hands-on laboratory experience in small groups
    – Case review and case study in small groups with trainer
    – Image analysis
    – Relevant Omics technologies
  • Data integration & phenotyping-endotyping – Case studies 

CURRICULUM

RENAL PATHOLOGY OF NATIVE KIDNEY DISEASES

  • Podocytopathies
  • Mitochondriopathies
  • Collagenopathies
  • Immune-complex-mediated glomerulonephritis
  • Complement-mediated glomerulonephritis
  • Crescentic glomerulonephritis
  • Vascular diseases
  • Monoclonal diseases of renal significance & organized renal deposits
  • Diabetic kidney disease
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Tubulointerstitial diseases
  • Renal storage diseases

COMPUTATIONAL IMAGE ANALYSIS

  • Principles of digital pathology
  • Histo-tools
  • Annotation-segmentation best practices
  • Machine Learning classifiers
  • Pathomic feature extraction
  • Digital biomarkers
  • Visualization tools
  • Image analysis in clinical practice

MOLECULAR NEPHROPATHOLOGY

  • Genetics of kidney diseases
  • Technologies and analytical approaches in kidney tissue and biofluids
  • Spatial omics analysis
  • Multiscale data integration
  • Principles of data mining strategies and interfaces
  • Specific search engines
  • Data integration

FACULTY

Mariam Alexander
Mayo Clinic (USA)

Hether Ascani
University of Michigan (USA)

Tarek Ashkar
Indiana University (USA)

Laura Barisoni
Duke University (USA)

Peter Boor
RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

Pietro Cirillo
University of Bari (Italy) 

Vincenzo Di Leo
University of Bari (Italy) 

Anna Maria Di Palma
University of Bari (Italy) 

Sean Eddy
University of Michigan (USA)

Felix Eichinger
University of Michigan (USA)

Loreto Gesualdo
Università degli Studi di Bari (Italy)

Felicitas Hengel
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf – UKE (Germany)

Leal Herlitz
Cleveland Clinic (USA)

Stephen Hewitts
National Institutes of Health, NIH (USA)

Jeffrey Hodgin
University of Michigan (USA)

Andrew Janowczyk
Emory University (USA)

Sanjay Jain
Washington University, St. Louis (USA)

Lindsey Johnstone
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (USA)

Renate Kain
Medical University of Vienna (Austria)

Mark Keller
Washington University, St. Louis (USA) 

Jasper Kers
Amsterdam UMC (The Netherlands) 

Maxmilian Koeller
Medical University of Vienna (Austria) 

Matthias Kretzler
University of Michigan (USA) 

Kyle Lafata
Duke University (USA)

Sabine Leh
Sabine Leh Haukeland University Hospital, Helse Bergen (Norway)

Lili Liu
University of Michigan (USA)

Adele Mitrotti
University of Bari (Italy) 

Viji Nair
University of Michigan (USA) 

Opeyemi Olabisi
Duke University (USA) 

Carrie Philips
Indiana University (USA)

Paola Pontrelli
University of Bari (Italy)

Victor Puelles
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany) 

Pierre Ronco
Sorbonne Université, Inserm (France) 

Avi Rosenberg
Johns Hopkins University (USA) 

Roberta Rossi
University of Bari (Italy)

Michele Rossini
University of Bari (Italy)

Andrew Rule
Mayo Clinic (USA) 

Steven Salvatore
Weill Cornell Medicine New Yo
rk City (USA)

Simone Sanna Cherchi
University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (USA)

Simona Simone
University of Bari (Italy)

David Thomas
Duke University (USA)

Nicola Martin Tomas
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf – UKE (Germany)

John Tomatzewski
University at Buffalo (USA)
 

Banchen Wankg
Duke University (USA)

Jarcy Zee
University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine (USA)