
Costimulation Blockade in Organ Transplantion
Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery Chairman
David C. Sabiston, Jr. Professor of Surgery
Education and Training
- Fellow, Multi Organ Transplantation, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1995 - 1997
- Chief Resident, Surgery, Duke University, 1994 - 1995
- Senior Resident, Surgery, Duke University, 1992 - 1994
- Research Fellow, Surgery, Duke University, 1989 - 1992
- Intern & Junior Resident, Surgery, Duke University, 1987 - 1989
- Ph.D., Duke University, 1992
- M.D., Duke University School of Medicine, 1987
- B.S., Old Dominion University, 1983
In the News
- Texas man receives N.C.’s first hand transplant at DukeJune 9, 2016
- N.C.'s first hand transplant goes to man from TexasJune 9, 2016
- Duke Surgery Helping Wounded WarriorsDecember 3, 2015
- Duke Announces 2015 Distinguished ProfessorsMay 1, 2015
Selected Grants
- Viela Bio Inc., VIB4920 Drug Study for Kidney Transplant Patients
- Advanced Immunobiology Traning Program for Surgeons
- Unified Program for Therapeutics in Children
- Transplant Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Training Grant
- Transplant Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Training Grant
- Duke Resident Physician-Scientist Program- NIAID
- Duke Resident Physician-Scientist Program- NIAID
- Duke Resident Physician-Scientist Program- NHLBI
- Duke Resident Physician-Scientist Program- NHLBI
- Immune Tolerance Network - Flow Cytometry
- American Journal of Transplantation
- Neonatal Porcine Islet Xenografts for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes
- Neonatal Porcine Islet Xenografts for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes
- Donor apoptotic cell infusion for tolerance to monkey kidney allografts
- Phase 2 Study of Belatacept, Alemtuzumab, and Sirolimus in Renal Transplantation
- Phase 2 Study of Belatacept, Alemtuzumab, and Sirolimus in Renal Transplantation
- 2019 ASTS Resident Scientist Scholarship
- T cell Receptor Diversity as a Determinant of Co-stimulation Blockade Resistance
- Interface of Mitochondrial Quality Control and Immune Activation in Heart Transplant
- The Lung Transplant Clinical Trials Network (LT-CTN)
- Nonhuman Primate Reagent Resources
- Immunomodulation to Optimize Vascularized Composite Allograft Integration for Limb Loss Therapy
- (TEACH) Immune Tolerance Network
- ITN Study: EP234: Real time flow cytometry at Duke for TEACH
- ITN iWITH Project
- TEACH Clinical Trial
- ITN056ST Optimal Co-Chair Protocol
- SC2i
- Positioning Vascilarized Composite Allotramsplantation within the Spectrum of Transplantation
- Immunosuppression Withdrawal for Stable Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
- CD57+CD4+ T cells in Belatacept-resistant Renal Allograft Rejection
- EP86: Flow Cytometry for Liver Transplant Tolerance Enhanced by Sirolimus Therapy
- ITN Study: EP234: Real time flow cytometry at Duke for TEACH
- ITN iWITH Project
- The impact of Epstein Barr virus infection on the immune response in pediatric transplant recipients
- (TEACH) Atemtuzumab, Costimulation Blockade and Sirolimus: A Tolerogenic Canvas for Donor Antigen Delivery via Mesenchymal
- Role of Mitochondrial Injury in the Pathogenesis of Primary Graft Dysfunction Following Cardiac Transplantation
- T Cell Maturation and the Nexus of Viral- and Allo-Immunity
- Transplant Tolerance in Non Human Primates
- Mouse Heart Transplant
- The Role of Rapamycin in Altering Graft Endothelial Cell Alloimmunogenicity
- Role of Mitochondrial Injury in the Pathogenesis of Primary Graft Dysfunction Following Cardiac Transplantation
- Exercise, Nitric Oxide Bioavailability and Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation
- Immune Tolerance Network - Flow Cytometry
- ASTS-Alexion Presidential Student Mentor Grant
- Development of a Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Research Program
- CD57+CD4+ T cells in Belatacept-resistant Renal Allograft Rejection
- Transplant Tolerance in Non-Human Primates