A History of Pioneering Research
As exceptional as our results have been, Stanford Hospital’s Transplant Program continually conducts research to find new treatment methods that will improve outcomes and increase the quality of life of our patients for years to come.
Physicians and clinicians with the Program have a long history of research in transplant immunology and clinical immunosuppression. The team continues to focus research on strategies to minimize side effects of chronic immunosuppression, and to conduct trials that someday soon may eliminate the life-long need for anti-rejection drugs in some transplant patients.
You can also visit Stanford’s Institute for Immunity Transplantation and Infection which aims to understand and ultimately control how the immune system defends the body at the molecular and cellular levels.
Current Stanford Studies & Trials:
- A comparative study to assess the differences in kidney structure and function between young kidney donors aged 18 to 45 years and older kidney donors aged 55 years and above before and after kidney donation for transplantation. Jane C. Tan, Bryan D Myers, Stephan Busque, F Graham Sommer, Marc L. Melcher
Recent Research Papers:
- Tolerance and chimerism after renal and hematopoietic-cell transplantation.Scandling JD, Busque S, Dejbakhsh-Jones S, Benike C, Millan MT, Shizuru JA, Hoppe RT, Lowsky R, Engleman EG, Strober S. N Engl J Med. 2008; 358 (4): 362-8
- Imprecision of creatinine-based GFR estimates in Uninephric kidney donors. Tan JC, Ho B, Busque S, Blouch K, Derby G, Efron B, Myers BD. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010; 5 (3): 497-502
- Asynchronous, out-of-sequence, transcontinental chain kidney transplantation: a novel concept.Butt FK, Gritsch HA, Schulam P, Danovitch GM, Wilkinson A, Del Pizzo J, Kapur S, Serur D, Katznelson S, Busque S, Melcher ML, McGuire S, Charlton M, Hil G, Veale JL. Am J Transplant. 2009; 9 (9): 2180-5