WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10, 2025

08.15-08.55 Registration with coffee and tea
08.55-09.00 Welcome address Geert D’Haens (Amsterdam UMC)
09.00-09.30 Introductory lecture: The changing face of IBD around the globe Siew Ng (Hong Kong, CN)
09.30-11.05  SESSION 1: LESSONS IN PRECLINICAL IBD
  Chairs: Wouter de Jongen (Amsterdam NL) and Jonas Halvarsson (Orebrö, Sweden)
09.30-09.40 Challenging Patient Case 1 Floris de Voogd (Amsterdam, NL)
09.40-10.00 What can rheumatologists teach us
about preclinical disease?
Marleen van de Sande (Amsterdam, NL)
10.00-10.25 The earliest biological signals of IBD Ryan Ungaro (New York, US)
10.25-10.45 Enigmas in the glycome Salome Pinho (Porto, PT)
10.45-10.55 The patient’s view on prevention of Crohn’s disease Salvo Leone – IFCCA (Brussels, BE)
10.55-11.05 PANEL DISCUSSION Chairs and speakers session 1
11.05-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
   
11.30-12.30  SESSION 2: LESSONS IN FIRST-LINE TREATMENT AND EARLY INTERVENTION
  Chairs: Geert D'Haens (Amsterdam NL) and Mark Silverberg (Toronto, CA)
11.30-11.40 Challenging Case 2 Toer Stevens (Amsterdam, NL)
11.40-12.00 First line treatment of Crohn’s disease Joana Torres (Lisbon, PT)
12.00-12.20 First line conventional and advanced treatment of ulcerative colitis: smart sequencing Peter Irving (London, GB)
12.20-12.30 ICA RESEARCH FLASH 1
Personalized medicine through epigenetics: latest progress
Andrew Li-Yim, (Amsterdam, NL)
12.30-13.15 SATELLITE 1 Program to follow
13.15-14.15 LUNCH
14.15-15.55  SESSION 3: MANIPULATING CYTOKINES: SHARPER, STRONER, LONGER
  Chairs: Mark Löwenberg (Amserdam, NL) and Peter Irving (London, GB)
14.15-14.25 Challenging Case 3 Anne Strik (Amsterdam, NL)
14.25-14.45 Dose intensification of biologics: do’s and don’ts Filip Baert (Roeselare, BE)
14.45-15.05 Oral and combined cytokine inhibition: feasible after all? Vipul Jairath (London ON, CA)
15.05-15.25 Immunogenicity prevention and reversal Krisztina Gecse (Amsterdam, NL)
15.25-15.45 From TNF to TL1A blockade, what to expect? Vipul Jairath (London ON, CA)
15.45-15.55 PANEL DISCUSSION Chairs and speakers session 3
15.55-16.15 AFTERNOON TEA
16.15-17.05 SESSION 4: KEYNOTE LECTURES
Chairs: Salvo Leone – IFCCA (Brussels, BE) and Ailsa Hart (London, GB)
16.15-16.45  How do gut and brain interact? Lukas van Oudenhove (Leuven, BE)
16.45-16.55  ICA RESEARCH FLASH 2
Tryptophan metabolism the key to unexplained fatigue?
Mohammed Ghiboub (Amsterdam, NL)
16.55-17.40 SATELLITE 2 Program to follow
17.40-18.15 DRINKS AND BITES
  End of day 1

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