“…1 ) thus created the WEDA, envisioning it as a small association, with a limited number of active members from a few Western European countries [ 1 ]. Later that year, Gabriel Richet suggested name alteration to avoid raising suspicion of being politically biased, and so the European Dialysis and Transplantation Association (EDTA) was born [ 1 ]. The first EDTA congress, which took place in Amsterdam in 1964, was a great success, with guest lecturers such as Willem Kolff and Sergio Giovannetti, and 210 participants from 16 European and several non-European countries, including the USA, Australia, Panama and Ghana.…”