Session I

Moderators: 
Sam Mesiano, PhD
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Elizabeth Bonney, MD
PREBIC President
University of Vermont, VT, USA

8:20 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Preterm Birth International Collaborative Activities
Elizabeth Bonney, MD
President, PREBIC
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

The burden of preterm birth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The impact of clinical and research-related challenges
Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, MD, M Phil
University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

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

Seeing the electrical waves: 3D noninvasive imaging of human uterine activities from labor contraction to peristalsis
Yong Wang, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA

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

BREAK

Session II

Moderators:
Bo Jacobsson, MD, PhD
Sahlgrenska University Hospital/University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Ramkumar Menon, PhD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA
Executive Director – PREBIC

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

What is the clinical utility of a test to predict preterm birth?
Thomas F McElrath, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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

Personalized risk prediction of preterm birth – the QUIPP app and more
Rachel Tribe, PhD
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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

Calvin J. Hobel, MD “Keynote Lecture”
Challenges and opportunities for innovation in maternal and perinatal global health
Mario Merialdi, MD, PhD, MPH
Founder & Former Director
PREBIC, Inc
Switzerland, Geneva

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

LUNCH BREAK

Session III

Moderators: 
Rachel Tribe, PhD
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
Director - PREBIC European Branch

Nanbert Zhong, MD, PhD
New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, NY, USA.

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

Activation of DNA sensing pathways in maternal monocytes and parturition initiation
Elizabeth Ann Enninga, PhD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

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

Studying ascending genital mycoplasma infection in preterm birth using cervical and feto-maternal interface organ-on-a-chip models and it’s in vivo physiologic validation
Ourlad Alzeus Tantengco, MD
University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

Threshold for inflammation in inducing preterm labor
Suhas G. Kallapur MD
UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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

Single-Cell RNA Sequencing of the Uterine Tissues in Normal and Complicated Labor
Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, PhD
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA

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

BREAK

4:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.

Nanomedicine for preterm birth prevention
Laura Ensign, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

4:40 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Q&A with all speakers from afternoon session