Tentative Program PREBIC GLOBAL WORKSHOP 2026

Date: May 7th – 10th, 2026.

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May 7th – Plenary Session (3.00 pm - 6.30 pm)
Chairpersons: Elizabeth Bonney, MD Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Vermont, USA Houda Moustaide, MD Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Tangier, Gynecology and Obstetrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tangier, Morocco Hadijat Raji, MD Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ilorin, and Consultant Obstetrician-Gynecologist, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria.
3.00 pm – 3.10 pm	Welcome Address Houda Moustaide, MD Organizing Committee Chair, PREBIC Global Work 2026
3.10 pm – 3.20 pm	PREBIC AFRICA – What does it mean? Hadijat Raji, MD Secretary General, PREBIC
3.20 pm – 3.45 pm	Health outcomes after preterm birth Priya Soma-Pillay, MD Deputy Dean - Health Stakeholder Relations University of Pretoria, South Africa Vice President – FIGO
3.45 pm – 4.15 pm	Management of preterm labor and preterm prelabor rupture of the membranes Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, Professor & Chair Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
4.15 pm – 4.45 pm	Immuno-perinatology: Maternal inflammation and impact on fetal development Irina Burd, MD, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, US
4.45 pm – 5.15 pm	Artificial Intelligence in Preterm Birth Shady Salem, MD President of ASFMS, Maternity Hospital of Cairo University, Egypt
5.15 pm – 5.30 pm	COFFEE BREAK
5.30 pm – 5.50 pm	Building Research Networks to Advance Preterm Birth Prevention: Lessons from the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Centers Jonathan Cherry Senior Director, Research Operations, March of Dimes, USA
5.50 pm – 6.10 pm	The Borne Foundation-Programmes tackling Prematurity Lucilla Poston, PhD Professor, Maternal & Fetal Health, School of Life Course & Population Sciences President of the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease King College, London, UK Scientific Board of Directors, Borne, UK
6.10 pm – 6.30 pm	Data, Science and Collaboration to Prevent Preterm Birth Katerina Ornerová, Ph.D. CEO, Neoli Foundation, Czech Republic
6.30 pm – 8.00 pm	Wine & Cheese Reception for PREBIC registrants

May 8th, Day 1
Chairpersons: Hanns Helmer, MD Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Dept. Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Nanbert Zhong, MD, PhD New York State Institute for Basic Research, Peking University Center of Medical Genetics, New York, USA
8.30 am – 8.45 am	Executive council report
8.45 am – 9.00 am	Welcome Address – PREBIC President Sam Mesiano, PhD Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
9.00 am – 9.25 am	Turning the Tide on Preterm Birth: The Power of Working Together Dilly OC Anumba, MBBS, FWACS, FRCOG, MD Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Sheffield, UK
9.25 am – 9.50 am	Environmental Contributions to Preterm Birth Jun Jim Zhang, MD, PhD Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, PR China
9.50 am – 10.15 am	Disrupted Intracellular pH Homeostasis and Adenosine Transport in Gestational Diabesity and Preterm Birth Luis Sobrevia, MD Cellular and Molecular Physiology Laboratory, Department of Obstetrics, Santiago, Chile
10.15 am – 10.35 am	COFFEE BREAK
Chairpersons: Ananth Kumar Kammala, M Pharm, PhD Associate Professor, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. Shajila Siricila, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Sunhwa Park, MD, PhD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
10.35 am – 12.45 pm	Young Investigator Forum
10.35 am – 10.45 am	Introduction to the PREBIC Young Investigator Forum Activities Egle Bytautiene, MD, PhD Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
10.45 am – 11.00 am	Immunometabolism at the maternal-fetal interface Stephen McCartney, MD Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
11.00 am – 11.15 am	The air we breathe, the outcomes we bear: Particulate matter and adverse pregnancy risks Manuel Vidal, Jr, MD, PhD College of Medicine, San Beda University, Manila, Philippines College of Science, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
11.15 am – 11.30 am	Idiopathic bleeding in the 2nd trimester - an overlooked pregnancy complication Jarmila Trumpesova, MD The University Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
11.30 am – 11.45 am	Do we properly select patients with a high risk of preterm delivery for antenatal corticosteroid administration? Katarzyna Sobczuk, MD Department of Perinatology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
11.45 am – 12.00 pm	Translating clinical experience into research questions: lessons from a preterm birth cohort in Tangier, Morocco (2023–2025) Rime Moatadid, MD Département of Gynecology and Obstetrics Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tangier University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tangier
12.00 pm – 12.15 pm	Ascending infection of Gardnerella vaginalis and compartmentalized inflammatory response in fetal-maternal interface organ-on-chip model. Mariana, de Castro Silva, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher, Botucatu Medical School – FMB UNESP, Brazil
12.15 pm – 12.30 pm	Beyond fetal origin: Maternal contributions to the placenta and fetal membrane María del Pilar, Flores Espinosa, PhD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
12.30 pm – 2.00 pm	LUNCH BREAK
Working group: Theme - Born on Time: Marching Towards Being Born Healthy Mechanisms of preterm birth: Biology of parturition/Maternal – Fetal Interface a. Maternal – Fetal Interface b. Uterine physiology and tissue-level inflammation/Hormonal (endocrine/paracrine) control Epidemiology of preterm birth: Environment and social determinants of preterm birth risk a. Cohorts and biobanks (from last year’s working group # 1) b. Mechanism of action of environment and social determinants Prediction of preterm birth risk a. Definition of preterm birth: beyond time phenotype. b. Reliability and accuracy of a priori clinical markers/Development of acute biomarkers Prevention of preterm birth: therapeutic objectives and challenges a. Strategies b. Impact of guidelines
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm	Working groups meet (Moderators – Elizabeth Bonney, MD, Scott Williams, PhD)
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm	COFFEE BREAK
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm	Working groups meet
Dinner on your own

May 9th, Day 2
Chairpersons: Stephen Lye, PhD Professor, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Physiology and Medicine at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Márcia Guimarães da Silva, PhD Professor, Botucatu Medical School, São Paulo State University, Botucatu, Brazil
9.00 am – 10.30 am	Mid-Career Investigator Forum
9.00 am – 9.10 am	Introduction to a career in preterm birth research Steve Lye
9.10 am – 9.30 am	Prokineticin-1 and preterm birth: from clinical observation to theragnostic applications Nadia Alfaidy, Msc, MPhil, PhD Director of Research, French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Grenoble University, Grenoble, France.
9.30 am – 9.50 am	Managing preterm birth in a high-volume tertiary care center in China: Clinical experiences and challenges Lin Zhang, MD International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, PR China
9.50 am – 10.10 am	Preterm birth rates, risk factors, and neonatal outcomes in women delivering in a tertiary care center in South India Ashwini Vishalakshi, MD Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JIPMER, Pondicherry, India.
10.10 am – 10.30 am	Systemic immunopathobiology preceding and predicting spontaneous preterm birth Ina Stelzer, PhD Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA
10.30 am – 11.00 am	COFFEE BREAK
11.00 am – 12.40 pm	Forum for Basic & Translational Science
11.00 am – 11.20 am	Pregnancy and Birth, and the microbiome in the female reproductive tract Young Ju Kim
11.20 am – 11.40 am	Paradigm-Shifting discoveries at the feto-maternal interfaces Lauren Richardson
11.40 am – 12.00 pm	The Role of the Platelet Immunoreceptor TLT-1 Valance Washington
12.00 pm – 12.20 pm	Using a genomics approach Jenniffer Mitchell
12.20 pm – 12.40 pm	Using OMICS to predict preterm birth Scott Williams
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm	LUNCH BREAK
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm	Working Groups meet
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm	COFFEE BREAK
4.00 pm – 6.00 pm	Preterm Birth Research in Africa: From Challenges to Solutions (Full roundtable as provided)
7.30 pm – 10.00 pm	PREBIC DINNER (Sponsored by Neoli Foundation)

May 10th, Day 3
8.30 am – 8.45 am	PREBIC 2027 – Planning – Venue and Dates – South America Branch Event Luis Sobrevia / Márcia Guimarães da Silva PREBIC 2028 Proposal Manuel Vidal, MD, PhD
8.45 am – 10.30 am	Working group updates (15 mins each)
10.30 am – 11.00 am	PREBIC Business Meeting
11.00 am	Adjourn

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