Advances in organ storage techniques have revolutionized organ donation after cardiac death. These techniques, called normothermic regional perfusion (NRP), allow a transplant team to restore blood and oxygen to organs to help them recover normal …
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Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: November 2024
Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see selections from …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: October 2024
Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see selections from …
Brown Lab Receives Accelerator Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
One of the lines of research that Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Matthew Brown, PhD, is conducting focuses on developing regenerative medicine therapies that can treat or cure disease. Regenerative medicine is a field of …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: August 2024
Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see selections from …
Transplant Faculty to Develop Test to Detect a Key Contributor to Kidney Transplant Rejection
Shortages of organs for patients who are awaiting a transplant are widespread, with over 100,000 people in the United States currently on the transplant waitlist. This is only one reason that it is critical to …
Welcome Our New Fellows
The Department of Surgery is excited to welcome our new fellows. Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship>> Aleksandra Vidovich Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship >> Christopher (Chris) Stahl Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship >> Vyacheslav …
Investiture Ceremony Celebrates Dr. Maloney as the Arenas Family Professor
On July 17, 2024, the Department of Surgery hosted an investiture ceremony to celebrate Dr. James Maloney, Professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Anthony J. Arenas Professor in Lung Transplantation. Dr. Rebecca …
UW Health Lung Transplant Program Ranked First in the Nation
Brown Lab Pre-Print Article Published on bioRxiv
The Brown Lab recently published a pre-print article describing its new approach to “hypoimmune” gene editing of pluripotent stem cell (PSC) therapies. The article, titled “Diminished Immune Cell Adhesion in Hypoimmune ICAM-1 Knockout Pluripotent Stem …