2019 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation Alone Induces Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells Which Can Suppress T Cell Responses
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are a naturally occurring, heterogeneous population of highly immunosuppressive CD11b+GR-1+ cells that expand in response to inflammatory conditions. MDSCs develop…2019 American Transplant Congress
Heart En Bloc Thymus Cotransplantation in NHPs
*Purpose: Tolerance of isolated cardiac allografts has never been achieved in NHPs. We investigated whether a cotransplanted, vascularized, donor thymus could induce tolerance of a…2019 American Transplant Congress
TCR Transgenes to Understand Human Xenotolerance Induction
Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY
*Purpose: Swine thymus transplantation is a promising approach to clinical tolerance for pig-to-human xenotransplantation. In humanized mice, a swine thymus graft supports de novo selection…2019 American Transplant Congress
How and Why Dyrk1a is Required for Optimal Foxp3+ Treg Functions
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: TCR-induced calcineurin phosphatase activation and subsequent Nfat dephosphorylation, leading to Nfat translocation to the nucleus, is a key event in conventional T cell activation.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Type-1 Interferons Impair the Key Immunoregulatory Activity of IL-10 in the Promotion of Transplant Tolerance
Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Induction of long term transplant survival by “costimulation blockade” (CoB) regimens is impaired by inflammatory responses. Despite the identification of type-1 interferons (TI-IFN) as…2019 American Transplant Congress
Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection Down-Regulates Receptor Tyrosine Kinase MerTK on Macrophages to Abrogate Allograft Tolerance
*Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the most common pathogens infecting solid organ transplant recipients. We recently showed that (1) CMV infection impairs the induction…2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Allografts Induce Systemic Tolerance of Heart Allografts and is Dependent on Foxp3+ Cells
*Purpose: We have successfully achieved cardiac allograft tolerance in both pigs and NHP by donor kidney co-transplantation. The mechanism of Kidney Induced Cardiac Allograft Tolerance…2019 American Transplant Congress
Role of MHC Class II in B Cell and Regulatory T Cell Development
Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Therapies involving CD4 regulatory T cells (Tregs) are promising approaches to mitigate graft rejection and autoimmunity. Understanding of the activation mechanisms that initiate Treg…2019 American Transplant Congress
Promotion of Chimerism by Lymphohematopoietic Graft-versus-Host Responses in Patients Receiving Intestinal Transplantation
*Purpose: Long-term multilineage chimerism often appears in blood following intestinal transplantation (ITx), usually without graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Patients with donor T cell macrochimerism (≥4%) in…2019 American Transplant Congress
Systematic Testing and Specificity Mapping of Alloantigen-Specific Chimeric Antigen Receptors in T Regulatory Cells
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: Achieving transplant tolerance with regulatory T cell (Treg) adoptive immunotherapy is currently under investigation as a therapy to reduce graft rejection and improve long-term…
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