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The American Society of Transplantation reviewed and responded to all twelve proposals released by OPTN/UNOS Committees for the fall public comment cycle, Aug. 14- Oct. 14, 2015.
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Nominate your colleagues for a 2016 AST Achievement Award! AST awards provide prestigious recognition according to faculty rank. You can start a nomination at any time. All nominations are due by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.
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AST members: are you or your colleagues interested in serving on the AST Board of Directors? Check out the qualifications or submit a nomination by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Open positions include President-Elect, Treasurer (two-year term), and three Councilors-at-Large (three-year term).
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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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"Navigating the ILDA Role: Challenges and Responsibilities" is the next webinar in the Education and Clinical Tools for the Independent Living Donor Advocate (ILDA) webinar series, and takes place Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 1 p.m. EDT. The entire nine-webinar series, developed by the AST Live Donor Community of Practice, is free to AST members and their associates: just register with an AST member username and password at www.myAST.org/ILDA.
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Encourage your colleagues to join from October to November and they will receive:
- The remainder of 2015 for free
- A membership in good-standing through December 2016
Recruit new members and your name will be included in a drawing to win great prizes including:
- iPad and a Free year of AST membership
- $500 AST Bucks
- $250 AST Bucks
Please contact info@myAST.org with any questions or visit www.myast.org/payitforward for more information.
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ASN Kidney Week
ASN
Nov. 3-8, 2015 | San Diego, CA
For more information: https://www.asn-online.org/education/kidneyweek/
AASLD Liver Week
AASLD
Nov. 13-17, 2015 | San Francisco, CA
For more information: http://www.aasld.org/events-professional-development/liver-meeting
CEOT 2016 – Cutting Edge of Transplantation
Now accepting abstracts!
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Feb. 25-27, 2016 | Phoenix, AZ
For more information: http://2016.ceot.myast.org/
CEOT abstract submission will be open until Sunday, November 15. Abstracts will be presented in poster format. All abstracts presented at CEOT will receive focused attention and constructive feedback from attendees and faculty. Abstract presenters must register on their own and cover all of their travel costs.
Abstracts presented or accepted for presentation by a young investigator (defined as a medical student, resident, or fellow) at an AST or ASTS national meeting within the previous year may also be submitted to the American Transplant Congress (ATC).
American Journal of Transplantation
Since Italian liver allocation policy was last revised (in 2012), relevant critical issues and conceptual advances have emerged, calling for significant improvements. We report the results of a national consensus conference process, promoted by the Italian College of Liver Transplant Surgeons (for the Italian Society for Organ Transplantation) and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver, to review the best indicators for orienting organ allocation policies based on principles of urgency, utility, and transplant benefit in the light of current scientific evidence.
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American Journal of Transplantation
A kidney-paired donation (KPD) pool consists of transplant candidates and their incompatible donors, along with nondirected donors (NDDs). In a match run, exchanges are arranged among pairs in the pool via cycles, as well as chains created from NDDs. A problem of importance is how to arrange cycles and chains to optimize the number of transplants.
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Journal of Clinical Virology
BK virus (BKV) causes BKV nephritis in renal transplant patients and contributes significantly to the increase of probability of graft loss. BKV, being latent in the urogenital tract, is likely to be transported with the donor kidney to recipients and following reactivation replicates in the nucleus of renal epithelial tubular cells. BKV daughter viruses are released and enter other renal epithelial cells to spread infection. There are still a lot of unknown factors about the mechanism and kinetics of BKV infection.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases
The effectiveness of liver transplant (LT) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and HIV/hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfected recipients in the United States is unknown. We investigated (i) the effect of HIV on U.S. patient and allograft LT outcomes, compared to HCV+ and HIV/HCV uninfected recipients and (ii) whether LT at centers that participated in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Solid Organ Transplantation in HIV Trial, reflecting experience and a standardized approach to patient selection, impacted outcomes.
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The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Cytokines and metabolic pathway–controlling enzymes regulate immune responses and have potential as powerful tools to mediate immune tolerance. Blockade of the interaction between CD40 and CD40L induces long-term cardiac allograft survival in rats through a CD8+CD45RClo Treg potentiation.
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