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Earlier this week, several members of the AST leadership attended the White House Organ Summit, an event focused on key actions to reduce the waiting list and saving lives. Four AST commitments were specifically highlighted, and two were mentioned as part of the Summit, showing the AST's leadership in this area.
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AST
Congratulations to the following AST members:
- Achievement Award and Grant recipients
- Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Dr. Thomas Gonwa
- The Incoming AST Board of Directors
ODRC, AOPO
The Organ Donation Research Consortium (ODRC) with additional support from the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) is pleased to offer up to $40,000 in funding to member(s) conducting basic, translational, or clinical research specifically related to the organization's mission to advance the science of organ donation. [Learn more]
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The UCLA Immunogenetics Center (UIC) provides comprehensive testing for organ and tissue transplantation. Transplant testing has a long history at UCLA. HLA typing was pioneered here in the 1960's. The development of the microcytoxicity test in 1964 marked the beginning of international testing and standardization of HLA typing. The UCLA Immunogenetics Center has retained its leadership position in HLA research, and in the development of accompanying diagnostic testing. MORE
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AST
Check out AST's archived webinars and journal clubs, and watch educational content when it's convenient for you. AST also offers a variety of resources for different transplant specialties, all available on our easy-to-search website.
AST
June 21, 2016 2 p.m. Online Activity
For more information: myast.org/education/webinars/t3
AST
June 22, 2016 | 12 p.m EST | Online activity
For more information: myast.org/journalclub
AST
This week, Reg Green received the AST's 2016 Transplant Advocacy Award at the American Transplant Congress. In the latest AST blog post, he shares some information about the important work he has done to promote organ donation.
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Predicting your "Observed to Expected" ratios
by cohort, by patient, and by risk factor
Wait List Management
Ensuring your wait listed patients are transplant-ready
one phone call at a time.
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AST
AST & ESOT Basic Science Meeting
November 10 - 12, 2016
Sheraton Ft. Lauderdale at Cypress Creek, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
AST ESOT ABSTRACT SUBMISSION SITE NOW OPEN
Submission Deadline is: June 26, 2016
Registration is now open! Don't miss out, register today!
The Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies
June 22-25, 2015 | Boston, MA
For more information: myast.org/meetings/focis-2016
AST: Fellows Symposium 2016
Sept. 23-25, 2015
Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, Grapevine, TX
The White House
Every 10 minutes, someone is added to the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant in the
United States. And every day, 22 people die while waiting. Today, the Obama Administration, as
well as dozens of companies, foundations, universities, hospitals, and patient advocacy
organizations are taking steps to change that by announcing a new set of actions that will build
on the Administration’s efforts to improve outcomes for individuals waiting for organ transplants
and support for living donors. The announced actions aim to increase the number of people who
register to become organ donors, increase the number of transplants and improve outcomes for
patients, and change what might be possible for future patients by facilitating breakthrough
research and development.
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Journal of Hepatology
Co-inhibitory receptor-ligand interactions fine-tune immune responses by negatively regulating T cell functions. Our aim is to examine the involvement of co-inhibitory receptor-ligand pair PD-1/PD-L1 in regulating rejection after liver transplantation (LT) in humans.
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Bioethics
In recent years much research has been undertaken regarding the feasibility
of the human uterine transplant (UTx) as a treatment for absolute
uterine factor infertility (AUFI). Should it reach clinical application this procedure
would allow such individuals what is often a much-desired opportunity
to become not only social mothers (via adoption or traditional
surrogacy arrangements), or genetic and social mothers (through gestational
surrogacy) but mothers in a social, genetic and gestational sense.
Like many experimental transplantation procedures such as face, hand,
corneal and larynx transplants, UTx as a therapeutic option falls firmly
into the camp of the quality of life (QOL) transplant, undertaken with the
aim, not to save a life, but to enrich one.
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The American Journal of Surgery
As compared with traditional laparoscopy, robotic-assisted surgery provides better EndoWrist instruments and three-dimensional visualization of the operative field. Studies published so far indicate that living donor nephrectomy using the robot-assisted technique is safe, feasible, and provides remarkable advantages for the patients.
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The New York Times
Six years ago, Wang Huanming was paralyzed from the neck down after being injured wrestling with a friend. Today, he hopes he has found the answer to walking again: a new body for his head. Mr. Wang, a 62-year-old retired gas company worker, is one of several people in China who have volunteered for a body transplant at a hospital in the northern Chinese city of Harbin.
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