Official news and announcements from Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute covering achievements and innovation in teaching, learning, clinical treatment, and discovery research
Juliana Schneider Powell: Poster Award at TTT 2024
Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Juliana Schneider Powell, for winning 2nd Best Poster Award at 2024 TTT! Her project was entitled "Feto-maternal T-cell allorecognition mediated by conceptus-derived small extracellular vesicles" [...]
Jordan Warunek: Poster Award at TTT 2024
Congratulations to pre-doctoral student, Mr. Jordan Warunek, for winning 2nd Best Poster Award at 2024 TTT! His project was entitled "Recipient Macrophage Recognition of donor MHCI Controls Graft Fibrosis Following [...]
Hēth Turnquist: 2024 Recipient of the Stuart K. Patrick Grant for Transplant Innovation
Congratulations to Dr. Hēth Turnquist upon his receipt of the 2024 Stuart K. Patrick Grant for Transplant Innovation! The grant provides funding to faculty at the University of Pittsburgh who [...]
Charbel Elias: 2024 Recipient of the Thomas E. Starzl Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transplantation Biology
Congratulations to Dr. Charbel Elias upon his receipt of the 2024 Thomas E. Starzl (TES) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transplantation Biology! The fellowship has been established as a mentored award to provide [...]
Faruk Sacirbegovic: 2024 Recipient of Amy Strelzer Manasevit Research Award
Congratulations to Dr. Faruk Sacirbegovic who is the recipient of the NMDP Foundation 2024 Amy Strelzer Manasevit Research Award! The NMDP Amy Strelzer Manasevit Research Program is one of the largest and [...]
Marc Jenkins: 2024 Eberly Distinguished Lectureship in Immunology
Dr. Marc K. Jenkins from the University of Minnesota is the first 2024 recipient of the Eberly Distinguished Lectureship in Immunology! He presented "Fate decisions by helper T cells during [...]
Aravind Cherukuri: Recipient of 2024 ASCI Award
Congratulations to Dr. Aravind Cherukuri who is the recipient of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) 2024 Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSAs)! This award recognizes physician-scientists who are early in their first [...]
Hossam Abdelsamed: Recipient of the 2023-2024 AASLD Pilot Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Hossam Abdelsamed who is the recipient of the AASLD Foundation Pilot Research Award in Liver Diseases! The purpose of this award is to support highly innovative [...]
Geoffrey Camirand: Recipient of the 2023 AST Basic Science Career Development Award
Congratulations to Dr. Geoffrey Camirand who was awarded the AST Basic Science Career Development Award! Dr. Camirand will be recognized at this year's American Transplant Congress in San Diego, [...]
Angus Thomson – 2023 Paul Russell Lecturer at MGH
Congratulations to Dr. Angus W. Thomson, Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Professor of Immunology and Clinical & Translational Science, who is this years' Paul S. Russell Visiting Professor at [...]
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine – Graduate School Information Session
Are you interested in graduate school? University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine will be hosting an information session on March 29th at 6 pm. Register here. [...]
Graft-versus-host disease is locally maintained in target tissues by resident progenitor-like T cells
Study reframes understanding of graft-versus-host disease - See the article here, written by Faruk Sacirbegovic, Matthias Gunther, Alessandro Greco, Daqiang Zhao, Xi Wang, Meng Zhou, Sarah Rosenberger, Martin Oberbarnscheidt, [...]
Inspiring the Next Generation
Aimed at introducing 14-19-year-olds worldwide to the world of work in STEM (science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine) and SHAPE (social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the [...]
Non-cytotoxic functions of CD8 T cells: “repentance of a serial killer”
See the review article here, written by Mouhamed Al Moussawy and Hossam Abdelsamed, in Frontiers in Immunology online, discussing a wide range of CD8 T cells' non-cytotoxic functions, which [...]