Official news and announcements from Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute covering achievements and innovation in teaching, learning, clinical treatment, and discovery research
STI Newsletter – Faculty Spotlight: Camila Macedo Both
Dr. Camila Macedo Both is a research associate professor of surgery at the Starzl Transplantation Institute. She was also the first recipient of the Brian N. Seidel Award for Excellence [...]
A Twist on Stem Cell Transplants Reduces Chronic GVHD
Read the full article, Naive T-Cell Depletion to Prevent Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease, in Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Roger Tieu – 2021 Brian N. Seidel Award for Excellence in Research
Listen to hear Dr. Heth Turnquist discuss research in regulatory cell networks in transplantation on the Regenerative Medicine Today Podcast with host John Murphy
Listen to Heth Turnquist on the Regenerative Medicine Today Podcast
Listen to hear Dr. Heth Turnquist discuss research in regulatory cell networks in transplantation on the Regenerative Medicine Today Podcast with host John Murphy.
Roger Tieu awarded 2nd place, abstract presentation, at the AKI Symposium
Congratulations to Roger Tieu, the only pre-doctoral presenter at the Acute Kidney Injury Symposium, who was awarded 2nd place in the abstract presentation category for his abstract, "Requirement for antigen in the [...]
A New Paradigm for Organ Rejection
Dr. Fadi Lakkis and his team are investigating the innate mechanisms responsible for initiating and perpetuating organ rejection. Their quest to reduce or eliminate chronic organ rejection marks an important [...]
Pioneering research builds on groundwork laid in Pittsburgh
How the kidney of a pig might offer hope for those in need of transplants - read more HERE and see Dr. Mohamed Ezzelarab's statements regarding the successful attachment of a kidney from [...]
Raman Venkataramanan – 2021 AAPS Distinguished Service Award winner
Congratulations to Raman Venkataramanan, PhD, FAAPS - the 2021 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Distinguished Service Award winner! The Distinguished Service Award recognizes a member for their lifetime of service [...]
Mohamed Ezzelarab and colleagues publish in Transplantation
Mohamed Ezzelarab and colleagues published in the current issue of Transplantation on the fate of ex vivo expanded donor-reactive Treg (darTreg) in heart allograft recipient monkeys - read it HERE
Dr. Sundaram Hariharan publishes review manuscript in NEJM
ICYMI.....Congratulations to our own Dr. Sundaram Hariharan for the publication of his New England Journal of Medicine review manuscript, Long-Term Survival after Kidney Transplantation.
Collaborative work between STI and UCSF investigators reveals superior capacity of stimulatory DCs for human alloreactive regulatory T cell expansion
Read the full article - Frontiers in Immunology
Eberly Series to Return
As life returns to normal, we are excited to announce the 2021/2022 Eberly Distinguished Lectureship in Immunology Series - please mark your calendars! October 14, 2021 - Ulrich von Andrian April [...]
Innate allorecognition in transplantation: Invited Review Article
Read more - The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
