| News From Transplant Week of April 21, 2002 / Vol. 3 No. 16 |
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New $10 Million Transplant Immunology Research Program Established at Baylor |
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The Baylor Research Institute, with the aid of a $5 million grant from the W.W. Caruth Jr. Foundation Fund, is establishing a $10 million transplant immunology research program to seek better ways of preventing the rejection of organs by the bodies of transplant recipients. "To establish tolerance in transplant recipients," said Dr. Jacques Banchereau, director of the Baylor Institute of Immunology Research, "manipulation of the human immune system is required. We will focus on dendritic cells, the primary cells that start immune responses.""We believe this important research will dramatically improve the quality of life for transplant patients," said Joel Allison, president and chief executive officer of Baylor Health Care System, which is matching the foundation's $5 million grant. A search is currently underway to fill the W.W. Caruth Jr. Chair in Organ Transplantation Immunology at the institute, and the choice will be announced later this year. Dr. Marvin Stone, director of the Baylor-Charles A. Sammons Cancer
Center, is directing the search with the help of Dr. Thomas E.
Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. David Sachs of
the Massachusetts General Hospital. Other sources: Baylor, Dallas Morning News |
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