Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor in Surgery
·
2025 - Present
Surgery, Abdominal Transplant Surgery,
Surgery
Associate Professor in Integrative Immunobiology
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2019 - Present
Integrative Immunobiology,
Basic Science Departments
Recent Publications
Profiling Allogeneic HLA-specific B-cell Responses Utilizing a 64-plex Single-HLA Reporter Cell Panel
Preprint · January 20, 2026 Full text CiteOff-label use of alemtuzumab, belatacept, and rapamycin in kidney transplantation-Long-term real-world experience.
Journal Article Am J Transplant · January 2026 Conventional immunosuppressive regimens in kidney transplantation continue to pose significant challenges, largely due to their reliance on calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) and corticosteroids. These challenges have driven the search for alternative regimens ... Full text Link to item CiteMajor histocompatibility complex Matchmaker: An in silico based algorithm to analyze cross-species nonhuman primate, pig, and human major histocompatibility complex compatibility at the amino acid level.
Journal Article Am J Transplant · November 4, 2025 Xenotransplantation received US Food and Drug Administration approval for clinical trials in humans, and highly sensitized patients-those with antibodies against major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-are among the groups that stand to benefit. There is no ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) - NIAID
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2018 - 2029Targeting the B Cell Response to Treat Antibody-Mediated Rejection
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2021 - 2028Lung Transplant Clinical Trial Network (LT-CTN)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2028View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Duke University ·
2005
Ph.D.
Bemidji State University ·
1986
B.S.