1st-3rd July 2026, Lübeck, Germany, Media Docks
All times in CEST
12th I-DSD Symposium Programme
Media Docks
| Symposium Day 1 (Wednesday, July 1st 2026) | |
| Session 1 – Opening (Start – 1pm) | |
| Olaf Hiort – Introduction Patient perspectives – Germany | |
| Session 2 –Update on I-DSD Activities | |
| Oral Communications Session | |
| Session 3 – The Diversity of Biological Sex | |
| Gonadal development – Andrew Sinclair, Australia Single cell analysis of sex diversity – Malte Spielmann, Germany Making sense of sex in neuroscience – Brigit Derntl, Germany | |
| Symposium Day 2 (Thursday, July 2nd 2026) | |
| Session 4 – Fertility Preservation | |
| Advances in male fertility preservation – Rod Mitchell, UK Importance of androgens for human foetal testis – Anne Jorgensen, Denmark Ethics of fertility preservation in young people – Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Germany | |
| Oral Communications Session | |
| Session 5 – Quality of Care & Its Benchmarking In the Real World | |
| Assessment of the Quality Of Care in DSD – Martina Jurgensen, Germany Assessment of the Quality of Care in CAH – Salma Ali, UK Lessons learnt from DSD Care in India – Preeti Dabadghao, India | |
| Session 6 – Hormones, Sex and Athletic Peformance | |
| Setting the Scene – Maria Jose Martinez-Patino, Spain The influence of biology on athletic performance – Georgina Stebbings, UK Managing biological differences in the sporting world – Nick Peirce, UK | |
| Poster Session | |
| Symposium Day 3 (Friday July 3rd 2026) | |
| Session 7 – Bridging The Gap In Current Therapies | |
| Gaps in current hormone replacement therapies – Philippe Touraine, France Mimicking the adrenal gland: novel developments – Charlotte Steenblock, Germany Mimicking the Testis: generating stem-cell derived organoids – Nitzan Gonen, Israel | |
| Session 8 – Surgical Outcomes In DSD | |
| The aetiology of hypospadias and its link to surgical outcome – Nicolas Kalfa, Montpelier, France Long-term management after female genitoplasty – Anne-Marie Amies Oelschlager, US Standardized assessment of surgical outcomes – Uchenna Kennedy, Switzerland | |
| End – 1pm | |
I-DSD Training Workshops – Wednesday July 1st (08:45 -12:30) (Additional registration fee)
Choice of 4 workshops out of 5 lasting 45 mins each
| SDMregistries Malika Alimussina Glasgow, UK | DSD Diagnostics Rodolfo Rey Buenos Aires, Argentina | Communication Lou Marshall Lübeck, Germany | Hormone replacement Aneta Gawlik Katowice, Poland | Sex Therapy Marij Dinkelman Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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