The ITN has invited two formal applications to be vetted by the ITN’s Network Steering Committee in April 2012 as a result of an RFP process yielding numerous high-quality submissions. This past summer the ITN issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for clinical trials designed to induce tolerance using combined therapeutic cell transfer and solid organ transplantation. This RFP was an effort to corral innovative strategies from the transplant community to identify novel and promising clinical trials to further explore the use of mixed chimerism as a tolerance induction strategy.
The ITN thanks the community for these submissions and encourages investigators to approach the ITN at any time with ideas for innovative trials. Proposals are welcome year round and can be submitted via the website.