Official news and announcements from Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute covering achievements and innovation in teaching, learning, clinical treatment, and discovery research
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 [...]
Khodor Abou-Daya: Recipient of the 2023 AST Career Transition Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Abou-Daya who is the recipient of the 2023 AST Career Transition Grant! His proposal focuses on leveraging AI to build a discovery platform for transplantation immunology. [...]
Morelli Lab Awarded 2 NIH-RO1s
Exciting news from the lab of Adrian Morelli who was recently awarded two NIH-RO1s! The first R01, titled “Graft extracellular vesicles as promoters of anti-donor immunity in cardiac and [...]
STI Newsletter – Regulatory dendritic cell therapy in living donor liver transplantation: a first-in-human trial
The unmet need in clinical transplantation. Despite its crucial role in promoting improved outcomes in organ transplantation, conventional long-term immunosuppressive (IS) drug therapy is associated with potential life-threatening side effects. [...]
STI Newsletter – Faculty Spotlight: Diana Metes
Dr. Diana Metes MD, FAST is a Professor of Surgery and Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and a member of the Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute [...]
Nicotra Lab – Tiny sea creature’s genes shed light on evolution of immunity
CREDIT: Huene, A.L. et al., PNAS, 2022 Exciting and elegant work published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) from the lab of Matt Nicotra! The [...]
Angus Thomson – Outstanding Achievement Transplantation Science Award
Congratulations to Angus Thomson who has been selected as the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Transplantation Science (Basic Science) Award on behalf of The Transplantation Society. He will be [...]
Heth Turnquist – 2022 AST Basic Science Investigator
Congratulatiions to Heth Turnquist who has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the AST Basic Science Investigator Award! He will be recognized during the AST Awards Ceremony during the upcoming [...]
STI Newsletter – Transplantation Science and the Department of Defense: A Unique Partnership
The Department of Defense isn’t what most people would associate with the field of transplantation science, but for Dr. Hēth Turnquist, Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and the [...]
