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ArticleTransplantation2015

Establishment of a global virtual laboratory for transplantation: a symposium report.

Edward K Geissler, Stefan G Tullius, Anita S Chong

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Article in Transplantation, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Beyond tumor biology: nursing interventions for psychological and immune health in cancer patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Edward K Geissler1 Department of Surgery, Section of Experimental Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. 2 Division of Transplant Surgery and Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 3 Department of Surgery, Section of Transplantation, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Stefan G Tullius
Anita S Chong

Funding

T cell mechanisms that distinguish robust tolerance from metastable allograft acceptance and failed tolerance (Project 2)P01AI097113 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Maria-Luisa Alegre, Anita S Chong · 2012 to 2026
$23.8M
Re-Engineering Translational Research at the University of ChicagoUL1TR000430 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI SOLWAY, JULIAN · 2012 to 2016
$20.2M
Consequences of Aging on Immune Response and Transplant OutcomeR01AG039449 · NIA · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI TULLIUS, STEFAN GUNTHER · 2012 to 2016
$1.6M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000430NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI097113NIA NIH HHS R01 AG039449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advancing the field of transplantation by developing improved and novel treatment strategies will require a detailed understanding of changes and adaptations of alloimmunity, both over the short-term and long-term. Presently, we rely on traditional measures that may not optimally reflect benefits of new treatments. Thus, collecting reliable basic information about changes of the immune response along the entire posttransplantation course will improve our understanding of how immune mechanisms evolve and guide the introduction of novel clinical approaches. The gathering of good quality data from transplant recipients in various clinical trials will require immune monitoring that is reliable and comparable so that large sets of information from individual trials can be confidently analyzed to reach rigorous conclusions. A uniform standard of testing is thus a prerequisite toward this goal. Based on the assumption that the transplantation community will in general be supportive of this concept, this meeting proposed establishing a global virtual laboratory as a means of developing and disseminating detailed and rigorous protocols for the monitoring of alloimmune responses.

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International CooperationAllergy and ImmunologyBiomarkersBiomedical ResearchConsensusCooperative BehaviorHumansIsoantibodiesIsoantigensLaboratoriesMonitoring, ImmunologicOrganizational ObjectivesOrgan TransplantationPractice Guidelines as TopicPredictive Value of TestsTreatment OutcomeBiomarkersIsoantibodiesIsoantigens

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PMID25594556
PMCPMC4319997

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