
Research interests include humoral tolerance to organ transplants in animal model and humans, developing a clinically relevant animal model to study the mechanisms of antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), and establishing a conceptual basis that will translate into therapeutic intervention of AMR.
Education and Training
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2007
Selected Grants
- An Acoustofluidic Device for Biocompatible Platelet Separation
- Targeting complement C3 to prevent acute antibody-mediated rejection for a deceased-donor kidney transplant in sensitized recipients
- Developing clinically relevant immunosuppressive regimen for pig to rhesus kidney transplantation using transgenic pigs
- Novel development ofan acoustofluidic device for targeted antibody removal in pediatric organ transplan rejection
- Acoustic Device to Prevent Antibody Mediated Organ Transplant Failure
- Alexion Sponsored Research Agreement
- Targeting complement C2 in a sensitized rat cardiac allograft model
- Targeting complement activation steps in antibody-mediated rejection
- Measuring the Impact of Allosensitization on Xenotransplantation
- Enzyvant Monkey Study
- Acoustic based plasmapheresis to prevent antibody-mediated organ transplant
- Prevention of Homograft Induced Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
- Thymus transplantation to induce tolerance to heart transplants
- Transplant Tolerance in Non-Human Primates
- Preventing allograft rejection but not tolerance by blockade of the lymphocyte store-operated calcium channel
- Prevention of Homograft Induced Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
- Preventing allograft rejection but not tolerance by blockade of the lymphocyte store-operated calcium channel
- Inducible Regulatory B Cells in Transplantation Tolerance