Debate 1 - Fetal surgeons will be out of business in 10 years
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
Debate 1 - Fetal surgeons will be out of business in 10 years
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
Against Position
Speaker: Alireza Shamshirsaz – Comprehensive Fetal Care Center at Dell Children’s Medical Center and Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin
Genomic Screening of Twin Pregnancies via Single-Cell Sequencing-based NIPT: Zygosity and Per-Fetus Clinical Performance Assessment
Primary Presenter: Francesca Romana Grati – Reproductive Precision Medicine Unit, Menarini Silicon Biosystems
1:12 PM - 1:17 PM East Coast USA Time
Modeling the positive predictive value of single-cell sequencing-based NIPT for genome-wide pathogenic copy number variants in the general-risk population.
Primary Presenter: Francesca Romana Grati – Reproductive Precision Medicine Unit, Menarini Silicon Biosystems
1:18 PM - 1:23 PM East Coast USA Time
Expanded Carrier Screening through routine NIPT: A Real-World Evidence from 225,092 Asian Pregnant Women
Primary Presenter: SANG H. TANG, n/a – Medical Genetic Institute Genesolutions
1:24 PM - 1:29 PM East Coast USA Time
Why zygosity matters: In dichorionic diamniotic pregnancies, monozygosity increases the risk for small-for-gestational and pre-term birth
Primary Presenter: Katsusuke Ozawa – National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan
1:30 PM - 1:35 PM East Coast USA Time
Prospective evaluation of the clinical performance of a single-gene cell-free DNA screening test for recessive conditions
Primary Presenter: Lawrence D. Platt, MD – Center for Fetal Medicine and Women's Ultrasound and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
1:36 PM - 1:41 PM East Coast USA Time
Cytogenetic outcomes of pregnancies with atypical results following SNP- based aneuploidy screening: a population-based cohort study based cfDNA
Primary Presenter: Christine Armour, MD, MSc – BORN Ontario / Prenatal Screening Ontario/ Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
1:42 PM - 1:47 PM East Coast USA Time
Diagnostic yield of CNV-seq and clinical exome sequencing in 788 fetuses with fetal growth restriction: a multicenter retrospective study
Genetic Etiologies Underlying Isolated Fetal Growth Restriction in the Era of Next-Generation Sequencing
Primary Presenter: Luming Sun – Department of Obstetrics, Center of Fetal Medicine & Intrauterine Pediatrics, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
1:18 PM - 1:23 PM East Coast USA Time
Clinical Utility of Rapid Whole-Exome Sequencing for Critically ill Fetuses: A Prospective Cohort Study on Perinatal Management and Pregnancy Outcomes
Primary Presenter: Luming Sun – Department of Obstetrics, Center of Fetal Medicine & Intrauterine Pediatrics, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
1:24 PM - 1:29 PM East Coast USA Time
Utility of COATE‐Seq-based non-invasive prenatal screening for detecting multiple genetic disorders and fetal zygosity in twin pregnancy: a prospective study
Primary Presenter: Jiaqi LU, n/a – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM East Coast USA Time
Attended Virtual Poster Session
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM East Coast USA Time
Attended Virtual Poster Session
Thursday, July 9, 2026
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
Industry Session Sponsored by Gene Solutions
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
Industry Session Sponsored by Gene Solutions
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM East Coast USA Time
Debate 3 - Fetal exome sequencing should be offered for all fetuses with growth restriction
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM East Coast USA Time
Debate 3 - Fetal exome sequencing should be offered for all fetuses with growth restriction
A Clinically-Curated Algorithmic Workflow Mimicking Expert Reasoning for Objective and Operator-Independent CNV Classification and Reporting
Speaker: Agnese Feresin – Reproductive Precision Medicine Unit, Menarini Silicon Biosystems
11:08 AM - 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
Nipocalimab versus Placebo to Prevent Severe Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (AZALEA): A Randomized, Double‑Blind, Placebo‑Controlled Phase 3 Trial
Best Early Career Investigators and Joe Leigh Simpson Award
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
Best Early Career Investigators and Joe Leigh Simpson Award
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time
Two sides of the same coin? Prenatal genomic testing has major clinical impact but unsolicited findings increase adverse parental psychological outcomes
