TIL Receives Two Grants from DOD

March 20, 2020

The Transplant Immunology Lab (TIL) has received two grants from the US Department of Defense (DOD).

The first, known as the DOD Investigator-Initiated Research Award, is for the project entitled "Identification and Therapeutic Targeting of a Novel Cell Population in Rejection of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA)." The $1.5M grant will fund the project for three years starting this June.

The second grant, known as the DOD Idea Discovery Award, will provide $500,000 in funding to explore whether exosomes are a reliable non-invasive method for monitoring VCA graft rejection.

Dr. Sheri Krams is the principal investigator on the Investigator-Initiated Research Award and CO-PI with Dr. Olivia Martinez on the Idea Discovery Award.