The Emory Transplant Center has conducted clinical trials since 2003 transplanting human pancreatic islet cells into patients with Type I diabetes.
Emory transplant medicine expert and GRA Eminent Scholar Allan Kirk, MD, PhD, who collaborates with Andrew Mellor, PhD at the Medical College of Georgia on research to find enzymes that could keep the body from rejecting newly transplanted organs.
«This is an issue we've been aware of in transplant immunology for a long time,» says Mandy Ford, scientific director of
Emory Transplant Center.
Not exact matches
As a billionaire philanthropist, McKelvey contributed $ 25 million to establish the Andrew J. McKelvey Lung
Transplant Center at
Emory University to support the research of the doctor who had treated him for a lung - scarring ailment.
Even so, says
transplant immunologist Christian Larsen of
Emory University, «it is spectacular to have a monkey off of immunosuppression, with good graft function, for more than a year.»
«While our study determined differences in post-
transplant outcomes between minority and white pediatric liver
transplant recipients, we were unable to fully explain the reason for these disparities,» concluded senior author Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH with the Division of Transplantation at
Emory University.
During her recent visit to
Emory, this former Cadet Nurse Corps nurse and World War II veteran regaled the
transplant center staff and kidney
transplant program director Thomas Pearson, MD, PhD, with her stories about the first
transplant at
Emory.
According to Stuart Knechtle, MD, professor of surgery in the
Emory School of Medicine and director of the
Emory liver
transplant program, domino
transplants are a rare but effective way of overcoming the national shortage of organs available for
transplant.
Emory University and Childrenâ $ ™ s Healthcare of Atlanta
transplant surgeon Stuart Knechtle, MD, and his surgical team recently performed the 1,000 th solid organ
transplant on a Childrenâ $ ™ s patient.
â $ œWhen offering LVAD destination therapy, our goal is to safely integrate patients back to their respective communities and normal mode of living, â $ according to David Vega, MD, surgical director of the
Emory Heart
Transplant Program.
Knechtle is chief of the
Emory School of Medicine
transplant division and professor of surgery, and surgical director of Childrenâ $ ™ s Liver Transplan
transplant division and professor of surgery, and surgical director of Childrenâ $ ™ s Liver
TransplantTransplant Program.
Learn more about
Emory's heart
transplant program and its 500th patient.
Six months later I had a stem cell
transplant at
Emory University and after recovery I was in remission.
Markias completed a year of clinical rotations at The
Emory University Hospital specializing in
Transplant, Intensive»