AHHSA 2026: Advances in Human Health through Spatial Omics and AI
Entering the Multi-Ome
October 5-6, 2026
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Registration and Submissions
- $50 Symposium Lectures
- $25 Workshops
- $0 Students and Trainees, UT San Antonio Faculty, Invited Speakers for AHHSA 2026
Online Registration is Closed. Registration will resume on Monday, October 5 at 12:30 pm CST at the Academic Learning & Teaching Center 3.304.
If you have any registration questions, please contact:
nephrology-admin@uthscsa.edu
cme@uthscsa.edu
nath@uthscsa.edu
Cancellation Policy: Refund less 25% if cancelled by September 14, 2026. Refund less 75% if cancelled after September 14, 2026. Positively no refund for cancellations thereafter.
About the Symposium
Two days of multidisciplinary breakthrough science, systems medicine, workshops & tutorials, lightening talks, and abstracts on AI application to precision medicine.
Keynote Speaker
Julia Guthrie, PhD
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine, Vienna
Dr. Guthrie is an expert in the protein interactome. She pioneered network-based classification of rare immune disorders, revealing how protein interactions shape biological function and disease.
Title: From Omics to Insight: Interactive Network Medicine for Multi-Omics Discovery
DAY ONE
Monday, October 5, 2026
VENUE
AL&TC 3.304
| TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER / DETAILS |
|---|---|---|
| 12:30-1:00 pm | Registration | Welcome |
| 1:00-1:15 pm | Welcome Opening Remarks | Kumar Sharma, MD Director, Center for Precision Medicine, The University of Texas at San Antonio Taylor Eighmy, PhD Inaugural President, The University of Texas at San Antonio and UT San Antonio Health Science Center |
| 1:15-1:45 pm | Immunometabolism in Pediatrics | Shaun W. Jackson, MD, PhD Spatial Landscape of the Kidney in Lupus Nephritis |
| 1:45-2:30 pm | Big Data and Federated AI Models | Amy Waterman, PhD Improving Cardiometabolic Health and Kidney Data Quality by utilizing a Federated Model in Two Texas Healthcare Systems |
| 2:30-3:00 pm | Coffee Break and Posters | Networking and poster viewing |
| 3:00-3:10 pm | Keynote Introduction | Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD Executive Vice President, The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| 3:10-4:15 pm | Keynote | Systems Medicine and AI | Julia Guthrie, PhD From Omics to Insight: Interactive Network Medicine for Multi-Omics Discovery |
| 4:15-5:15 pm | Lightning Talks | Selected Presentations From
|
| 5:15-6:30 pm | Reception and Posters | Networking reception and poster viewing |
Workshop/Tutorial:
- Virtual Reality-Network Biology →
- Pathways
- Organoids and point of care testing
Continuing Medical Education
This live activity has been approved for
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
DAY TWO
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
VENUE
Holly Auditorium / Holly Foyer
| TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER / DETAILS |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 am | Coffee/Tea | |
| 9:00-9:30 am | Organoids for Drug Development | James Hickman, PhD Regulatory Acceptance of Human on a Chip Systems for Efficacy and Safety Evaluation of Therapeutics |
| 9:30-10:00 am | aiMATCH Workshop | AIM-AHEAD | Amina Qutub, PhD, Mark P. Goldberg, MD, David Hernandez-Guzman, BS, & Mignon Frances Dumanjog, BS Molecules to Cells to Tissues to Systems: Multi-Network Spatial Analysis |
| 10:00-10:30 am | Multi-omics and Diagnostics | Luke Norton, PhD Single Nuclei Multiomic Approaches to Dissect Transcriptional Networks in Animal and Human Liver Jing Yong Ye, PhD Development of Photoacoustic Aptamer Switch Sensors for Deep Tissue Biosensing and Imaging |
| 10:30-11:00 am | Digital Pathology, AI, and Spatial Omics | Jeffrey Hodgin, MD, PhD Digital Pathology and Pathomics: Omics Integration in Kidney Disease |
| 11:00-11:30 am | Multi-Omics Clinical Insights | Subramaniam Pennathur, MD Lipidomics and Diabetic Kidney disease: Markers to Mechanisms |
| 11:30 am-1:30 pm | Virtual Reality and Pathways Workshop Lunch Box available | Julia Guthrie, PhD and Marlene Grabner, PhD |
| 1:30-2:00 pm | AI in Medical Education | Ronald Rodriguez, MD, PhD The Impact of AI on Medical Education: Why Pimping is Making a Comeback |
| 2:00-3:00 pm | Lightning Talks Refreshments available | Selected Presentations From
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| 3:00-4:00 pm | Keynote | Multi-Omics in Diabetes | Petter Bjornstad, MD Cells, Space, and Disease: Decoding Diabetes and Obesity |
| 4:00-4:30 pm | Concluding Remarks | Kumar Sharma, MD Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Nephrology; Director, Center for Precision Medicine, The University of Texas at San Antonio |