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June 2023

Our research assistant, Christa Deban, was accepted to the Central Michigan University College of Medicine. Congratulations, Christa!

Our clinical coordinator, Connor O’Brien, was accepted to the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. Congratulations, Connor!

March 2023

Mostafa Mohammed matched in Pathology at Tufts Medical Center. Congratulations, Mostafa!

Ahmad Halawi matched in Internal Medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital. Congratulations, Ahmad!

August 2022

Anis Saad received the 2022 STARS Award from the American Society of Nephrology. Congratulations, Anis!

June 2022

Zhabiz Sohljou received the 2022 Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation. Congratulations, Zhabiz!

Our work describing the novel role of CD74 in immune regulation was highlighted in the “What’s Hot What’s New” session at the 2022 American Transplant Congress.

February 2022

Bio-Techne announces exclusive development and license agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific for out ExoTRU® Kidney Transplantation Rejection Assay! View article here: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bio-techne-announces-exclusive-development-and-license-agreement-with-thermo-fisher-scientific-for-exotru-kidney-transplant-rejection-assay-301485617.html

Our clinical coordinator, Katharine Cashman, was accepted to the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. Congratulations, Kate!

July 2021

John Choi receives the 2021 John Merrill Grant in Transplantation from the American Society of Nephrology. Congratulations, John!

June 2021

Bio-Techne Announces that the new ExoTRU urine test, developed in collaboration with the Azzi laboratory at the Transplantation Research Center to diagnose Kidney Transplant Rejection, will be offered to patients in 2021. https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/bio-techne-announces-exotru-kidney-transplant-rejection-assay-data-publication/

Our work on the development of a novel urinary exosomal RNA test to diagnose human kidney transplant rejection has been covered by over 20 news outlets. https://www.altmetric.com/details/101279694/news

 

John Choi receives the 2021 Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation. Congratulations, John!

Our work on the HLA-E restricted CD8 regulatory T cells will be presented in a plenary session at the American Transplant Congress 2021.

June 2020

John Choi receives the 2020 American Society of Transplantation Basic Science Research Fellowship Grant. Congratulations, John!

Siawosh Eskandari receives the 2020 Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation. Congratulations, Siawosh!

Our work on engineering regulatory T cells was mentioned in the “What’s Hot What’s New” session at the 2020 American Transplant Congress

Our research assistant, Philip Chu, was accepted to Einstein Medical School. Congratulations, Philip!

May 2019

Songjie Cai receives the 2019 Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation. Congratulations Songjie

November 2018

Siawosh Eskandari receives the 2018 Top 3 Graduate Thesis Award from the University of Groningen

August 2018

Jenelle Safadi receives the 2018 STARS Award from the American Society of Nephrology

June 2018

Jean-Pierre Assaker receives the 2018 Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation

May 2017

Sujit Routray receives the 2017 Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation 

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