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2024 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology

Call for Nominations

The Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute is accepting nominations for the 2024 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology, awarded annually to a national or international leader in the field of organ transplantation and immunology.

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Starzl Prize Announcement

Starzl Prize

The Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology recognizes outstanding national and international leaders who have made significant contributions to the fields of organ transplantation and immunology. Join us on May 9, 2023 to honor this year’s recipient, Sir Robert Lechler.

Graft-versus-host disease

The Journal of Clinical Investigatino

Turnquist Lab used precise transgenic mice and alloHCT models of GVHD to establish recipient-derived IL-33 as an important costimulatory molecule for Th1 cells during GVHD initiation.

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Early Effect of the Circular Model of Kidney Allocation in the United
States

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

STI researchers show that the 2021 US kidney allocation policy increased transplant access to patients with cPRA>80% and those with longer dialysis duration but the change was also accompanied by an increase in cold ischemia time and kidney discards