Transplant Medicine

Grant to help with detecting genes that contribute to transplant rejection

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 20th, 2004

A group of physicians and scientists led by Associate Professor Daniel Salomon, MD, of the department of molecular and experimental medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, has been awarded a new federal research grant of more than $12 million over 5 years to apply genomic technologies to advance understanding of kidney transplantation.

The grant was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Under the auspices of this program project grant, titled "Genomics for Kidney Transplantation," Salomon and his colleagues will monitor several hundred patients who have...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2004-12-20)

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