PREBIC Satellite

SESSION I
Moderators:
Sam Mesiano, PhD      PREBIC, President

8:20 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Preterm Birth International Collaborative Activities
Sam Mesiano, PhD
President, PREBIC
Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Evidence-based medicine 2026: We have the data, but are they really true?
Ben W Mol, MD
Professor, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Monash Health
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Discussion

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION II: 
Moderators:
Natasha Singh, MBBS, FRCOG, MD(res)
Imperial College London

Brandie D. Taylor, PhD, MPH
Director, Scientific Research
Advocate Aurora Research Institute, Milwaukee, WI

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

The State of the US Biomedical and Health Research: Strategies for Achieving a Healthier America
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA
The Distinguished University and Endowed Professor
Director, Center for Advanced Research Training & Innovation
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
The University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Preterm Birth: Progesterone Receptor Dysfunction
Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM
Dean, Morsani College of Medicine
Executive Vice President,
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Public Health,
University of Southern Florida Health, Tampa, FL

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

From the heart to the womb: Unraveling the hemodynamic disruption of the placenta and birth outcomes under heat stress
Liping Feng, MD
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University School of Medicine, NC, USA

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

A high throughput 3D bioprinted human placenta as a novel predictive platform to study drug safety and pathological conditions during pregnancy
Cristina Acedo Antich, PhD
Research Scientist, Division of Preclinical Innovation, 3-D Tissue Bioprinting Laboratory
National Center for Advanced Translational Science (NCATS), National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

LUNCH BREAK

SESSION III
Moderators:
Ourlad Tantengco, MD, PhD
Board of Directors – PREBIC
Assistant Professor, Division of Basic Science and Translational Research
Dept. Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX

Emily Hamburg-Shields, MD, PhD
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Placental endothelial (dys)function in the maternal-fetal triad: pre-pregnancy obesity, preterm birth, and gestational diabetes
Luis Sobrevia, FRSM FTPS FIUPS ACALmem
Cellular and Molecular Physiology Laboratory (CMPL)
Department of Obstetrics, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Marcoleta, Santiago, Chile

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Cellular and Immunological Mechanisms of Wound Healing of Ruptured Fetal Membrane
Haruta Mogami, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Therapeutically targeting the druggable transcriptome associated with inflammation-induced preterm birth
Shajila Siricilla, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Neonatology,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

BREAK

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION IV
Moderator:
Egle Prewit, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Reproductive Research
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Texas Health San Antonio, TX

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Is Preterm Labor Prediction and Prevention Feasible? Reflections on the Story of Progesterone
Roberto Romero, MD, DMedSci
Chief
Pregnancy Research Branch
Division of Intramural Research
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)/National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA