Three abstracts from Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) studies are being presented at this year's American Transplant Congress in Boston, MA, held May 20-June 3, 2009.
UCSF's Sandy Feng will present the preliminary results of her study of immunosuppression withdrawal in pediatric liver transplant recipients. The three center study is fully enrolled, with 20 subjects aged 5-15 years.
Ken Newell, from Emory University and the ITN's Vicki Seyfert-Margolis will also present their findings from the ITN Registry of Tolerant Kidney Transplant Recipients, in which they have found a strong association of B cells with tolerance in renal transplantation.
Similarly, Robert Lechler and Maria Hernandez-Fuentes from Imperial College London, will present the results of their European efforts to study tolerant kidney transplant recipients, in which they present their evidence for B cell and NK cell biomarkers of tolerance.
See the attachment below for abstracts and times/locations.
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