Program

Due to the influence of coronavirus (COVID-19), Sister Society Symposium, JSA-JSI Joint Session, Pro & Con Session and Meet the Professors are cancelled during the congress.

Keynote Lecture
Opening Ceremony
Plenary Lectures
Symposia
Educational Lectures

(Last updated August 17, 2020)

Keynote Lecture

Thursday, September 17, 4:00pm - 5:00pm (JST) Live Streaming

Chair: Motohiro Ebisawa (Japan)

"Molecular targeting of Treg cells for controlling immune responses"
Shimon Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D.: (Professor, Immunology Frontier Research Center,
Osaka University, Japan)

Opening Ceremony

Thursday, September 17, 5:00pm - 7:00pm (JST) Live Streaming

A Special Tribute to Dr. Kimishige Ishizaka and Dr. Teruko Ishizaka

By courtesy of Yamagata University

Chair: Terumasa Miyamoto (Japan)

"Continuing impact of the discovery of IgE by the Ishizakas"
Hirohisa Saito: (National Research Institute for Child Health & Development, Japan)

Dr. Kimishige Ishizaka's recorded presentation
"Identification of Immunoglobulin E"
Kimishige Ishizaka (1925-2018): (La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, USA)

Plenary Lectures

PL-1：Immunotherapy

"Sublingual immunotherapy and anti-IgE therapy for Japanese cedar pollinosis in Japan"

Kimihiro Okubo

(Nippon Medical School, Japan)
"Allergen Immunotherapy (AIT) in Asthma"

Ignacio J. Ansotegui

(Hospital Quirónsalud Bizkaia, Spain)
"Feld 1-Specific IgG4 Antibodies: Biologicals For Cat Allergy"

Mohamed Shamji

(Imperial College London National Heart and Lung Institute/ Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, UK)

PL-2：Skin Allergy

"Insights into chronic urticaria for diagnosis and management"

Michihiro Hide

(Hiroshima University, Japan)
"Hereditary angioedema (HAE)"

Marcus Maurer

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)
"Atopic eczema - is the Epithelium the Problem?"

Lisa A. Beck

(University of Rochester Medical Center, USA)

PL-3：Food Allergy

"Management of food allergy in Japan"

Motohiro Ebisawa

(Sagamihara National Hospital, Japan)
"FOOD ALLERGY: Current and Future Treatment"

Hugh Sampson

(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA)
"Adjuvants and OIT"

Mimi Tang

(Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), Australia)

Agnes SY Leung

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

PL-4：Basic Science

"Regulation of allergic responses to food by intestinal bacteria"

Cathryn Rose Nagler

(University of Chicago, USA)
"GROUP 2 INNATE LYMPHOID CELLS REGULATE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO ALLERGIC DISORDERS"

Kazuyo Moro

(Graduate school of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan)
"The epithelial barrier hypothesis for the development of allergic and autoimmune diseases"

Cezmi Akdis

(University Zurich, Switzerland)

PL-5：Environmental Factors

"The impact of climate change on pollen allergy and forecast system for allergenic pollen in future"

Jae-Won Oh

(Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Republic of Korea)
"The allergenic activity of mites and fungi IgE-binding components"

Luis Caraballo

(University of Cartagena, Colombia)
"Environmental Factors on Airway and Allergic Disease: Air pollution and Global Warming"

David Blaine Peden

(Department of Pediatrics and Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, University of North Carolina, USA)

PL-6：Eosinophils and Related Diseases

"Mechanisms of eosinophilic inflammation"

Makoto Nagata

(Saitama Medical University, Japan)
"Eosinophils and eosinophil-related diseases"

Robert Schleimer

(Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA)
"Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases-Clinical manifestations and therapeutic options"

Glenn Furuta

(University of Colorado School of Medicine/Children’s Hospital Colorado, USA)

PL-7：Severe Asthma

"Mechanism of severe asthma"

Giorgio Walter Canonica

(Humanitas University & Research Hospital, Italy)
"Biomarkers of severe asthma (SA): Lessons from longitudinal cohorts"

Hae Sim Park

(Ajou University Medical Center, Republic of Korea)
"Treatment of Severe Asthma"

Sally E. Wenzel

(University of Pittsburgh, USA)

PL-8：Prevention

"Basic Concept about Primary Prevention of Allergic Diseases"

Hirohisa Saito

(National Research Institute for Child Health & Development, Japan)
"Allergy Prevention"

Harald Renz

(Philipps University Marburg / University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Germany)
"Eczema & food allergy, new findings and implications for prevention"

George du Toit

(Kings College London, School of Life Course Sciences and School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, UK)

Symposia

Internal Medicine

SY-1 (I-1)：Severe Asthma

Speakers

"How close are we to precision medicine for severe/difficult to treat asthma?"

Hisako Matsumoto

(Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan)
"Phenotypes of severe asthma"

Sang Heon Cho

(Seoul National University College of Medicine, Republic of Korea)
"Biology meets biologics: Severe asthma treatments in 2020"

Sally E. Wenzel

(University of Pittsburgh, USA)

SY-7 (I-2)：Adult food allergy

Speakers

"Adult food: an increasingly recognized challenge"

Barbara Ballmer-Weber

(Clinic for dermatology and allergology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland)
"Occupational food allergy"

Yuma Fukutomi

(NHO, Sagamihara National Hospital, Japan)
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"Progress in alpha gal allergy"

Michael Levin

(University of Cape Town, South Africa)

SY-9 (I-3)：Airway mycosis in allergic airway disease

Speakers

"Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis"

Ritesh Agarwal

(Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India)
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"The presence of basidiomycetous fungi in the airway- how to take this troublesome pathogen"

Katsuhiko Kamei

(Chiba University, Japan)
"Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis/mycosis in Japan"

Koichiro Asano

(Tokai University School of Medicine, Japan)

SY-14 (I-4)：Netting ANCA-associated vasculitis ―advances in disease mechanisms and targeted therapies

Speakers

"Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: Disease Phenotype and Management"

Ulrich Specks

(Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA)
"ANCA associated vasculitis: A personal story of 35 years of research"

Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert

(University of Alberta, Canada)
"Updates on the pathogenesis of ANCA-associated vasculitis"

Akihiro Ishizu

(Hokkaido University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Japan)

SY-19 (I-5)：New insights in allergen immunotherapy: Adult

Speakers

"Allergen immunotherapy in Europe"

Mário Morais-Almeida

(Allergy Center, CUF Descobertas Hospital, Portugal)
"Allergen Immunotherapy: an American Perspective"

Bryan Martin

(The Ohio State University, USA)
"Allergen immunotherapy in Japan"

Makoto Nagata

(Saitama Medical University, Japan)

SY-21 (I-6)：Chronic Cough

Speakers

"Pathophysiology and treatment of cough in asthma"

Akio Niimi

(Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan)
"Chronic cough in children"

Anne Chang

(Menzies School of Health Research, Australia)
"Management of chronic refractory cough"

Kian Fan Chung　

(Imperial College London, UK)

SY-24 (I-7)：Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD)

Speakers

"Role of inflammatory cells and lipid mediators in AERD pathogenesis"

Sven-Erik Dahlen

(Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
"Pathophysiology of Phenotype/endotype of AERD"

Hae Sim Park

(Ajou University Medical Center, Republic of Korea)
"Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease:clinical manifestations and therapeutic advances"

Masami Taniguchi

(Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Japan)

SY-33 (I-8)：Problem to be solved in adult asthma

Speakers

"Problem to be soloved in adult asthma: Onset and risk factor"

Anahí Yáñez

(Allergy and Respiratory Disease Research Center, Argentina)
"Asthma and COPD Overlap (ACO)"

Takeshi Kaneko

(Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
"Elderly asthma in the era of aged population"

Yoon-Seok Chang

(Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Republic of Korea)

SY-35 (I-9)：Eosinophilic inflammation in airways

Speakers

"Control of eosinophilic airways inflammation by endogenous Siglec ligands"

Bruce Bochner

(Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA)
"Eosinophils, viruses and childhood asthma"

James Gern

(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Eosinophil ETosis-mediated extracellular traps and diseases"

Shigeharu Ueki

(Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

Pediatrics

SY-2 (P-1)：Prevention of Allergy

Speakers

"Environmental exposures and life-course trajectories of allergic diseases"

Adnan Custovic

(Imperial College London, UK)
"Allergy prevention by combatting skin sensitization"

Yukihiro Ohya

(National Center for Child Health and Development, Japan)
"Allergy prevention by microbial manipulation: Are we ready?"

Ting Fan Leung

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

SY-10 (P-2)：Pediatric asthma

Speakers

"New GINA Guidelines"

Gary Wong

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
"JPGL 2020"

Shigemi Yoshihara

(Dokkyo Medical University, Japan)
"Do we need new guidelines in pediatric asthma?"

Mário Morais-Almeida

(Allergy Center, CUF Descobertas Hospital, Portugal)

SY-16 (P-3)：Allergic diseases and Immunodeficiency

Speakers

"Overview of inborn errors of immunity: from a point of view of allergists"

Yusei Ohshima

(Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Japan)
"Early Diagnosis in Primary Immunodeficiencies: Red flags and Alert signs"

José Antonio Ortega-Martell

(Autonomous University of Hidalgo State, Mexico)
"Common Variable Immunodeficiency"

Kohsuke Imai

(Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Japan)

SY-20 (P-4)：Non-IgE food allergy

Speakers

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"Non-IgE-mediated gastrointestinal food allergy in Japan"

Ichiro Nomura

(National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan)
"Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome in USA"

Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn

(New York University Langone Health, USA)
"Non IgE-mediated food allergy"

Alessandro Fiocchi

(Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù IRCCS, Italy)

SY-22 (P-5)：Food allergy diagnosis

Speakers

"Molecular features of food antigen: From mechanisms to diagnosis and therapy"

Rudolf Valenta

(Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
"Application of allergen component"

Komei Ito

(Aichi Children's Health and Medical Center, Japan)
"Stepwise oral food challenge"

Noriyuki Yanagida

(Sagamihara National Hospital, Japan)

SY-29 (P-6)：Risk factors for pediatric allergies

Speakers

"Particulate matter as a risk factor in children with atopic dermatitis"

Kangmo Ahn

(Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea)
"Risk factors for pediatric allergies, food allergy"

Philippe Eigenmann

(University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland)
"Risk factors for allergic asthma in Children"

Jiu-Yao Wang

(National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

SY-32 (P-7)：Learning from birth cohort studies

Speakers

"Early-life origins of COPD"

Adnan Custovic

(Imperial College London, UK)
"JECS and T-Child Study - Cohort studies in Japan"

Kiwako Yamamoto-Hanada

(National Center for Child Health and Development, Japan)
"Early life gut microbiome in allergic diseases"

Soo-Jong Hong

(University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Republic of Korea)

SY-34 (P-8)：Food allergy treatment

Speakers

"Oral immunotherapy for food allergy"

Sakura Sato

(Sagamihara National Hospital, Japan)
"Epicutaneous immunotherapy for the treatment of food allergy"

Hugh A. Sampson

(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA)
"New treatments in food allergies."

Alessandro Fiocchi

(Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù IRCCS, Italy)

SY-38 (P-9)：New insights in allergen immunotherapy: Pediatrics

Speakers

"New Insights in Allergen Immunotherapy: Pediatric"

Sandra Nora González Díaz

(Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico)
"Specific Immunotherapy in Asian Children"

Hugo van Bever

(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
"Allergen immunotherapy in Japan: current status and future perspective"

Mizuho Nagao

(National Hospital Organization Mie National Hospital, Japan)

Dermatology

SY-5 (D-1)：Contact dermatitis

Speakers

"The mechanical understanding of allergic contact dermatitis develops the in vitro method to detect sensitising chemicals."

Setsuya Aiba

(Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan)
"Clinical variation of hair dye allergy"

Jun Young Lee

(The Catholic University of Korea, Republic of Korea)
"Status of contact dermatitis and patch testing initiatives in Japan"

Akiko Yagami

(Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Japan)

SY-11 (D-2)：Atopic dermatitis

Speakers

"Current Problems in the management of atopic dermatitis"

Norito Katoh

(Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Graduate School of Medical Science, Japan)
"Biomarkers for severity and endotyping in atopic dermatitis"

Edward Knol

(University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands)
"What’s New in the Treatment and Prevention of Atopic Dermatitis?"

Lisa A. Beck

(University of Rochester Medical Center, USA)

SY-25 (D-3)：Severe cutaneous allergic reaction (SCAR)

Speakers

"Pathogenesis of SCAR: Necroptosis in Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis"

Riichiro Abe

(Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Japan)
"From immune mechanism to treatment on SCAR"

Wen-Hung Chung

(Drug Hypersensitivity Clinical and Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan)
"Diagnostic test and biomarkers in SCAR"

Elizabeth J Phillips

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA)

SY-30 (D-4)：Severe urticaria

Speakers

"Pathogenesis of urticaria refractory to antihistamines"

Michihiro Hide

(Hiroshima University, Japan)
SS

"Diagnositic tests and biomarkers in severe urticaria"

Sarbjit Saini

(Johns Hopkins University, USA)
MB

"Current and future management of chronic urticaria"

Mario Sánchez-Borges

(Centro Médico Docente La Trinidad, Venezuela)

SY-36 (D-5)：Mechanism of itch

Speakers

"Pathogenesis of pruritus"

Kenji Kabashima

(Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
"Management of Atopic Dermatitis in Special Situations"

Andreas Wollenberg

(Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany)

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"Mechanisms of pruritus"

Martin Steinhoff

(Translational Research Institute, Dermatology Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation　Qatar University, School of Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College, Qatar)

ENT

SY-4 (E-1)：Chronic rhinosinusitis and upper airway

Speakers

"Chronic Rhinosinusitis (CRS) and the upper airway"

Robert Schleimer

(Northwestern University, USA)
"What should a surgeon know about the phenotypes of Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps"

Luo Zhang

(Capital Medical University, China)
"Eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis"

Shigeharu Fujieda

(University of Fukui, Japan)

SY-13 (E-2)：Pollinosis

Speakers

"Pollinosis-Recent epidemiological data"

Philip Rouadi

(Lebanese Allergy Immunology- World Allergy Organization, Lebanon)
"Climate change effect on pollen allergy and on asthma induced by pollens"

Gennaro D'Amato

(University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
"Unique feature of Japanese cedar pollinosis"

Daiju Sakurai

(Yamanashi University, Japan)

SY-27 (E-3)：Allergen immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis

Speakers

"Novel Mechanisms of Immune Tolerance for Allergen"

Mohamed Shamji

(Imperial College London National Heart and Lung Institute/ Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, UK)
"Allergen immunotherapy for Japanese cedar/cypress pollinosis"

Mitsuhiro Okano

(International University of Health and Welfare Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
"The EUFOREA model to improve care in Allergic Rhinitis"

Peter Hellings

(KU Leuven, Belgium)

SY-39 (E-4)：New ARIA

Speakers

"Implementation of ARIA guidelines by ARIA score and mobile technology"

Jean Bousquet

(Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier, France)
"Treatment of AR based on new EUFOREA algorithm"

Peter Hellings

(KU Leuven, Belgium)
"ARIA care pathways for allergic rhinitis in Japan"

Yoshitaka Okamoto

(Chiba Rousai Hospital/Chiba University, Japan)

Basic Science

SY-6 (B-1)：Roles of ILCs

Speakers

"Role of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in allergic disorders"

Kazuyo Moro

(Graduate school of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan)
"Role of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in the development of allergic diseases"

Hideaki Morita

(National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan)
"Pathophysiology of severe asthma"

Koichi Fukunaga

(Keio University, School of Medicine, Japan)

SY-8 (B-2)：Mast cells, basophils and eosinophils

Speakers

"Human mast cell interaction with inflammatory cells in allergic diseases"

Yoshimichi Okayama

(Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan)
"Basophil activation in oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy"

Mindy Tsai

(Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
"Eosinophil Siglecs: biology and therapeutic advances"

Bruce Bochner

(Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA)

SY-15 (B-3)：Barrier (lung, skin, GI)

Speakers

"Epithelial barrier in bronchial epithelium"

Cezmi Akdis

(University of Zurich, Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Switzerland)
"Homeostatic mechanisms of skin barrier and their disruption in skin inflammation"

Masayuki Amagai

(Keio University School of Medicine/ RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
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"The mucosal barrier in GI – lessons learned for the clinician from basic science"

Luc Biedermann

(University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland)

SY-23 (B-4)：Microbiome and allergy

Speakers

"Exposure to environmental microbes from the hygiene hypothesis to a mechanistic understanding"

Harald Renz

(Philipps University Marburg / University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Germany)
MS

"Lung and gut microbiota in asthma - bacteria, viruses, fungi and archaea"

Milena Sokolowska

(Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
"Intestinal bacteria promote intestinal barrier integrity and modulate retinoic acid metabolism to prevent allergic responses to food"

Cathryn Rose Nagler

(University of Chicago, USA)

SY-26 (B-5)：Key player in immune regulation

Speakers

"Revisiting the mechanism for AIT: Roles of DCs in SLIT"

Katsuaki Sato

(Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Japan)
"Regulatory T cells in Allergic Diseases"

Talal Chatila

(Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Novel B cell subsets and immune regulation"

Mübeccel Akdis

(Swiss Institute of Allergy & Asthma Research (SIAF), Switzerland)

SY-40 (B-6)：Mastocytosis

Speakers

"Novel Immunopharmacological Interventions in Mastocytosis"

Francesca Levi-Schaffer

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Mastocytosis: clinical spectrum of disease"

Peter Arkwright

(The University of Manchester, UK)
"Association to anaphylaxis"

Frank Siebenhaar

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)