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Organ Transplantation and "The role of race and ethnicity in health care crowdfunding: an exploratory analysis"

Tuesday, August 6, 2024, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Sponsored by AST's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access to Life (IDEAL) Committee

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CD4+ T cell immunity is dependent on an intrinsic stem-like program

Thursday, July 18, 2024, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Sponsored by AST's Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)

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A multi-institutional study of renal outcomes and renal-related pregnancy outcomes in uterus transplant recipients

Tuesday, April 16th from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Sponsored by AST's Vascular Composite Allotransplant Advisory Council (VCA AC)

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Parental leave, childcare policies, and workplace bias for hepatology professionals: A national survey

Recorded live on Monday, April 1, 2024 • Sponsored by AST's Women's Health Community of Practice (WHCOP)

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Tregs integrate native and CAR-mediated costimulatory signals for control of allograft rejection

Recorded on Tuesday, February 27, 2024 • Sponsored by AST's Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)

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Inequities in organ and tissue donation and transplantation for sexual orientation and gender identity diverse people: A scoping review

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Sponsored by AST's Women's Health Community of Practice (WHCOP) and Psychosocial and Ethics Community of Practice (PSECOP)

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Race-free estimated glomerular filtration rate equation in kidney transplant recipients: development and validation study

Thursday, October 5th, 2023, from 11:00 AM ET to 12:00 PM ET • Sponsored by AST's Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice (KPCOP) and the AST Education Committee

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The best insulin delivery is a human pancreas

Thursday, July 20th, 2023, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Sponsored by AST's Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice (KPCOP)

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Machine learning-based prediction of health outcomes in pediatric organ transplantation recipients

Wednesday, May 10th, 2023, from 4:00 PM ET to 5:00 PM ET • Co-sponsored by AST's Psychosocial and Ethics Community of Practice (PSECOP) and Pediatrics Community of Practice (PCOP)

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Blocking CCL8-CCR8–Mediated Early Allograft Inflammation Improves Kidney Transplant Function

Thursday, April 6th, 2023, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted by AST's Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)

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Survival Benefit of Living-Donor Liver Transplant

Recorded live on Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 • Co-hosted by AST's Living Donor Community of Practice (LDCOP) and Liver and Intestinal Community of Practice (LICOP)

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Reproductive Health after Thoracic Transplantation: An ISHLT Expert Consensus Statement

Tuesday, February 28th, 2023, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Co-hosted by AST's Women's Health Community of Practice (WHCOP) and Thoracic and Critical Care Community of Practice (TCC COP)

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Host-versus-commensal immune responses participate in the rejection of colonized solid organ transplants

Recorded live on Thursday, January 19th, 2023, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted by AST's Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)

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Awarding additional MELD points to the shortest waitlist candidates improves sex disparity in access to liver transplant in the United States

Recorded live on Tuesday, October 25th, 2022 • Hosted jointly by AST's Liver and Intestinal Community of Practice (LICOP) and Women's Health Community of Practice (WHCOP)

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Pregnancy after living kidney donation, a systematic review of the available evidence and a review of the current guidance

Recorded live on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 • Hosted jointly by AST's Living Donor Community of Practice (LDCOP) and Women's Health Community of Practice (WHCOP)

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Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation in Caucasian versus African American patients: Does recipient race influence outcomes?

Recorded live on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 • Hosted by AST's Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice (KPCOP)

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NFAT-dependent and -independent exhaustion circuits program maternal CD8 T cell hypofunction in pregnancy

Tuesday, July 19, 2022, from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted by AST's Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)

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First clinical-grade porcine kidney xenotransplant using a human decedent model

Thursday, May 19, 2022 from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted jointly by AST's Education Committee and Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice (KPCOP)

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A Message from the New AST President

June 06, 2024

With great excitement and gratitude, I begin my role as AST's President. I sincerely appreciate our Past President, Dr. Josh Levitsky, for his exemplary leadership and dedication over the past...

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AST Announces 2024-2025 Board of Directors

June 04, 2024

The American Society of Transplantation (AST) announced its newly elected 2024-2025 Board Members, including its new President,...

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