Center for Transplantation Science News

2024

April 2024. Gerald P Morris MD PhD (Pathology) awarded MPI (co-PI Michael Khuns PhD, University of Arizona) R21 award for the project, “Use of allogeneic pMHCII-based ^5MCAR-CTLs to eliminate alloreactive lymphocytes in transplant".

June 2024. Aleah Brubaker MD PhD (Surgery) awarded ASTS-TransMedics Faculty Perfusion Grant for the project, “Expanding utilization of DCD liver allografts with prolonged warm ischemic injury by defining the role of normothermic machine perfusion on PPAR signaling and HSC-mediated fibrosis".

July 2024. Aleah Brubaker MD PhD and Peter Than MD awarded American Society of Transplant Surgeons-TransMedics Faculty Perfusion Grant, “Expanding utilization of DCD liver allografts with prolonged warm ischemic injury by defining the role of normothermic machine perfusion on PPAR signaling and HSC-mediated fibrosis”.

July 2024. Gabe Schnickel MD, Aleah Brubaker MD PhD, Mita Shah MD, and Sheri Hartman PhD awarded UCSD Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Team Catalyst Award, “Catalyzing Collaborative and Transformative Change in Organ Donation”.

August 2024. Clarkson Crane MD (Pediatrics) awarded a KL2 Institutional Mentored Scientist Career Development Award for the project, “Prediction and monitoring of T cell alloreactivity in kidney transplantation using PIRCHE-II and Snowflake computational approaches based on high-resolution HLA genotyping".