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Our immune system keeps us free from harmful bacteria and viruses. But he also treats a heart or a kidney transplant life as an invader and finally destroyed it. What new methods are developed to enable researchers transplanted organs survive longer in host? Can they use immune cells control the body's own immune curb attacks on organ transplants? And can they find ways of using animal organs to provide substitutes for donated human organs, which are in short supply?
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David KC Cooper
David Cooper is a professor of surgery at the Thomas E. Starzl transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. As a former heart transplant surgeon, he found that the main limiting factor in all transplant programs is the shortage of organs that become available from deceased human donors. In an effort to develop a new unlimited source of organs and cells for transplantation in patients, he and his colleagues are studying the possibility of using the organs and cells from genetically modified pigs for this purpose.
Vu Nguyen
Dr. Vu Nguyen is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. He is currently studying the development and function of regulatory T cells (Treg) and the role of microflora in models of hematological malignancies and stem cell transplantation. His lab is particularly interested in the regulatory pathways that control the dissection of tissue and organ-specific immunity.
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Mitch Leslie
When n 't fight small crocodilians, Mitch Leslie wrote about immunology and cell biology for science.
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