Official news and announcements from Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute covering achievements and innovation in teaching, learning, clinical treatment, and discovery research
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
STI Researchers Publish in Science Immunology
"Long-term graft survival after organ transplantation can be hindered by immune-mediated allograft rejection; thus, understanding these immune responses is crucial to developing new transplant-supporting therapies." Read more of of Dr. [...]
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Immunology
Looking for Post-Doctoral Fellow in Immunology to work on Regulatory B cells Background: Immunology or related fields (PhD or MD with relevant experience) Location: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine [...]
Congrats to Dr. Hossam Abdelsamed – Recipient of the 2021 AGA Research Foundation Award!
The American Gastroenterological Association announced their 45 researchers inducted into the 2021 class of Foundation Awards Program. The award funding is giving to some of the most promising researchers in [...]
Pitt Surgery Ranks 3rd Globally In U.S. News & World Report
Best Global Universities for Surgery These are the top global universities for surgery, based on their research performance in the field. The University of Pittsburgh ranked 3rd in Surgery in the 2021 [...]
