CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Afsana Naaz (Afsana Naaz), Postdoctoral Researcher, for receiving the 2024 American Society of Transplantation (AST) Fellowship Research Grant for #BasicScience!!!!🎉🎉 The grant will focus on temporo-local targeting of dysregulated repair responses to prevent chronic heart rejection.

How do memories last? A population of neurons that engages mechanisms of the innate immune system during memory formation has been uncovered in mice go.nature.com/4aawVcV

Join us WEDNESDAY (4/10) in LHAS at 8am for our weekly #GrandRounds! Dr. Aravind Cherukuri (Aravind Cherukuri PhD MRCP (UK)) will present "Re-appraising the clinical impact of early acute T cell mediated rejection after kidney transplantation" #CME credit will be available Pitt Surgery

A total eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime event, yet every day, over 100,000 Americans continue to wait for an organ transplant! Sign up to be an organ donor today! #donatelife #totaleclipse

Elements of successful NIH grant applications. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known. Its benefits in prevention outstrip any known drugs: 50% reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease, 50% reduction in the risk of many cancers, positive effects on mental health, pulmonary health, GI

This was exciting interdisciplinary and collaborative work done with Alok Joglekar - would not have been possible without their expertise and amazing antigen discovery and immunopeptidomics pipelines!

Check this fantastic review by Elias et al and Aravind Cherukuri PhD MRCP (UK) on the role of regulatory B cells from immune monitoring to #immunotherapy. #TransplantTwitter #Immunology tinyurl.com/yc542es7

In a new Science study, researchers present a safer, low-cost, and low-energy whole-body MRI device. The findings could help address unmet clinical needs in diverse healthcare settings worldwide. scim.ag/70K

TWO DAYS!!! We look forward to seeing you all there! UPMC University of Pittsburgh Pitt Health Sciences Clinical & Translational Science Institute Pitt Surgery #StarzlPrize #StarzlTxInstitute

Congratulations to Dr. Rene J. Duquesnoy upon receipt of the 2024 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in #Surgery & #Immunology!!!! Thank you for all of your scientific contributions over the years🧪 Thank you to all who attended!!

Proud moment. Innate immunity session at the ATC feels like a conference session Starzl Transplantation Institute. Proud of all the trainees for their efforts. 4 out of 5 talks from Starzl Transplantation Institute American Society of Transplantation (AST) AST Community of Transplant Scientists TTS #ATC2024 Khodor Abou-Daya Oberbarnscheidt Lab Turnquist Lab

Very honored to have received the 2024 Basic Science Career Development Award at the #ATC2024Philly Thank you American Society of Transplantation (AST) for your trust! And gratitude to my mentors and colleagues from whom I learn from them every day Mass General Transplant Mass General Surgery AJT Editorial Fellows

Short video here about transplant tolerance: youtube.com/shorts/fZA_-kx…

Tomorrow at 8am!!! #CME credit will be available for attendees. Pitt Surgery #StarzlTxInstitute

TOMORROW!!! We look forward to seeing you for Olivier_Thaunat lecture! Pitt Surgery Pitt Micro/Immuno #StarzlTxInstitute

Want to learn more about innate allorecognition in #transplantation? Download this free review. #OpenAccess #immunology #transplantation tinyurl.com/f278bn5t

Calling University of Pittsburgh Chatham University CMU Biological Sciences undergrads interested in immunology and microbiology! Applications for MIDS Program Scholars opens today! Providing PAID research experiences for those from diverse and underrepresented groups. pmi.pitt.edu/research/mid-s…

Amazing textbook conceptualized and edited by Sundaram Hariharan This is an excellent resource for nephrologists and transplant nephrologists and nephrology trainees. American Society of Transplantation (AST) American Society of Nephrology Starzl Transplantation Institute TTS Long-term Care of Kidney Transplant Patients a.co/d/iThncx6

Congratulations to Kass Baron (Kassandra J Baron) from Turnquist Lab for winning the #AAI Young Investigator Award at the XXIV Great Lakes Transplantation Immunology Incubator Forum!!!🙌🙌 #StarzlTxInstitute