Reconstructive Transplant Research
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2024
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News:
- Developing online communication training to request donation for vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA): improving performance to match new US organ donation targets (external link)
BMC Springer Nature, February 13, 2024
2023
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- Ethical Factors Impacting Patients’ Decisions to Pursue VCA August 15, 2023
- Bioengineered Particles to Promote Regulatory T Cells and Modulate the Immune System in Transplantation and Multiple Sclerosis August 10, 2023
2022
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- Researching New Ways to Block Inflammation and Prevent Severe Tissue Damage Following Transplantation October 12, 2022
- Regaining independence after the world s first successful combination face and double hand transplant August 12, 2022
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- Personalizing treatment for severe limb injuries (external link)
Mizzou, January 28, 2022
2021
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Research Highlights
- Mapping the Inflammatory Response to Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
December 17, 2021 - Transfer of Donor Lymph Nodes to Promote Graft Tolerance
August 31, 2021
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- Department of Defense helps fund 1st successful face, double hand transplant (external link)
WTOP News, February 11, 2021
2020
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- Defense Health Program Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20)
September 21, 2020
Research Highlights
- Engineered Microparticles for Promoting Transplant Tolerance: Taking a Page Out of Cancer s Playbook
- Increasing Organ Donor Authorization for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
- Improving and Quantifying Functional Hand Use in Hand Transplant Recipients and Amputees
2019
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- Defense Health Program Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19)
August 1, 2019 - Defense Health Program Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19)
May 2, 2019
Research Highlights
- CDMRP-funded Physician Performs Historic Face Transplant Surgery
- Project Update: Biomarkers to Predict Rejection in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation: MMP3
- Reconstructive Transplant Research Program (RTRP) Request for Information (RFI)
News:
- He s the First African American to Receive a Face Transplant. His Story Could Change Health Care (external link)
TIME, October 28, 2019
2018
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- Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18)
May 31, 2018
Research Highlights
- Developing Therapeutic Reagents to Accelerate the Rate of Peripheral Nerve Growth after Reconstructive Transplantation
- Improving Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation via Histone Deacetylase Modulation
- T-Regulatory Cell-Based Therapies Promote Survival of Vascularized Composite Allografts
- Biomarkers to Predict Rejection in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
2017
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Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplantation Research Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2017
May 15, 2017
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2016
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Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplantation Research Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2016
July 19, 2016
2015
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Last updated Tuesday, October 8, 2024