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The AST recently announced the nominees that will be on the ballot for the 2019 AST Board of Directors election. Be on the lookout starting next week for an email with further instructions on how to cast your votes.
| Dates for the COP Executive Committee Election
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The election for COP Executive Committee members (Co-Chairs, Members-Large, and Early Career Members-at-Large) will be open from Monday, April 8, through Monday, April 22, 2019. All COPs except for the Advanced Practice Providers have openings on their Executive Committees. On April 8, voters will receive an email from Simply Voting providing them with their unique voting credentials along with instructions on how to vote online.
AST
Like most non-profit organizations, the AST has many valuable relationships that contribute to its continued growth and sustainability. To give our partners the opportunity to showcase their current initiatives and news, the AST posted its March 2019 Partner's Blog.
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The AST joined a number of other kidney patient advocates and health professionals in a coalition letter to request increased funding for the NIH in 2020, including an increase for the NIDDK and a Special Statutory Funding Program for kidney research.
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Join thousands of transplant professionals at this year’s American Transplant Congress (ATC), June 1-5, 2019, in Boston, MA. From cutting-edge science that’s transforming the field, to in-depth workshops and hot topic sessions, the ATC is quickly becoming the most recognized transplant Congress in the world.
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As an AST member, access to free or discounted educational resources are included in your membership. These diverse educational resources offer materials relevant to the transplant professional in every stage of their career—from basic trainee lessons to webinars on specialized topics.
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The Transplant Nephrology Core Curriculum (TNCC) is an online program jointly provided by the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Transplantation. The TNCC focuses on key information needed to prepare for the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Board Certification and Maintenance of Certification examinations.
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Comprehensive Trainee Curriculum (CTC) is a great way to expand your transplant knowledge. This feature is an online educational platform that features dozens of webinars on various concentrations of transplantation.
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| Upcoming Education Events
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The Road Less Traveled: How to Grow a Pancreas Transplant Program
April 9, 2019 | 2 p.m. ET | Online Activity
For more information, click here.
Pharmacogenomics
April 17, 2019 | 2 pm ET | Online Activity
For more information, click here.
Multimodal safety assessment of measles-mumps-rubella vaccination after pediatric liver transplantation
April 30, 2019 | 2 pm ET | Online Activity
For more information, click here.
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The Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute is accepting nominations for the 2020 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology, awarded annually to a national or international leader in the field of organ transplantation and immunology. The prize consists of a crystal award, an honorarium of $10,000, and travel expenses to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the spring of 2020 to formally receive the award and to present the Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology lecture. The winner will also participate in related activities and meet informally with faculty, post-doctoral fellows and students.
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Concurrent Interactive Workshop: IPTA-AST Joint Workshop: On End-Stage Organ Failure Management of the Neonate
Tuesday, May 7 – 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Facilitators: Katherine Twombley, USA and Claire Irving, Australia
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Liquid biopsies, based on cell free DNA and proteins, have shown the potential to detect early stage cancers of diverse tissue types. However, most of these studies were retrospective, using individuals previously diagnosed with cancer as cases and healthy individuals as controls. Here, we developed a liquid biopsy assay, named the hepatocellular carcinoma screen, to identify HCC from the surface antigen of hepatitis B virus positive asymptomatic individuals in the community population.
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Natural regulatory T cells ensure the control of self-tolerance and are currently used in clinical trials to alleviate autoimmune diseases and graft-versus-host disease after hematopoietic stem cell transfer. Based on CD39/CD26
markers, blood nTreg analysis revealed the presence of five different cell subsets, each representing a distinct stage of maturation.
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American Journal of Transplantation via Wiley Online Library
Microvascular injury is associated with accelerated kidney transplant dysfunction and allograft failure. Molecular pathology can identify new mechanisms of microvascular injury while improving upon the diagnostic and prognostic capabilities of traditional histology.
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American Journal of Transplantation via Wiley Online Library
Post‐transplant‐lymphoproliferative‐disorder is a devastating complication of organ transplantation. In a hospital‐based registry, we identified biopsy‐proven cases of PTLD among children over a 15‐year period and reviewed trends in PTLD rates, the sites of involvement and the associated survival rates. Cases that were included had at least one year of follow‐up after the diagnosis of PTLD.
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American Journal of Transplantation via Wiley Online Library
The National Surgical Quality Program Transplant program was designed by transplant surgeons from the ground up to track post‐transplant outcomes beyond basic recipient and graft survival. After an initial pilot phase, the program has expanded to 29 participating sites and enrolled more than 4,300 recipient‐donor pairs into the database, including 1,444 completed liver transplant cases.
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