Institutional Priorities

Advancing Organ Preservation and Enhancement

  • Multiple strong initiatives emerging in organ preservation and repair including bioengineering, surgical and translational skills
  • Clinical trial design refinement for lung bioreactor model
  • Expansion of temperature optimization work to other organs

Deep Tissue Phenotyping of the Transplant Allograft

Improving Transplant Access and Outcomes for All People

  • Strong foundation with faculty expertise in health services research and ethics
  • Educating, counseling more effectively with Artificial Intelligence enabled communication approaches
  • Supporting patients with substance misuse disorder

Data Assets, Analytics and Augmented Intelligence in Transplant Science

  • Around 50 consultations over the past year
  • Trainee-led project (Association of Pre-Transplant Coronary CT Angiography versus Dobutamine Stress Echocardiogram with Major Adverse Cardiac Events after Liver Transplant
  • Multicenter prospective consortia in EBV and Kidney Transplantation and Cardiomyopathy and Liver Transplant
  • Clinical trial analytical support including 10 degree lung preservation and post transplant cancer

Advancing the Science of Non-Invasive Immune Monitoring, Precision Immunosuppression and Mitigating the Toxicities of Immunosuppression Therapy

  • Focus on growing expertise in transplant immunology
  • Vaccine science in setting of immunosuppression
  • Donor derived viral infections (for example, HCV, EBV and cancer)