The Transplantation Society (TTS)

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Don't miss your chance to submit your abstract to #TTS2026 and connect with leading experts moving the field forward🚀

✔️Abstracts due March 19!

Submit here🔗https://tts2026.org/program/call-for-abstracts

See you in Sydney - Sept. 20-23! 🇦🇺

📱 This study explores digital health tools in kidney transplant candidates over 50! 📱#TXPforAll #Transplantation tinyurl.com/4y9bhapd

Freely downloadable paper alert! A new study dives into the vibrant #transplant community on Reddit, analyzing 1000 posts from r/transplant. The focus? How patients share experiences and seek support around solid organ transplants. #TXPforAll tinyurl.com/3k6kwj8w

🔥Check out this pre-recorded webinar series, featuring heart and lung experts! 🫀🫁

💡We've curated a collection of lectures designed to advance education in heart and lung transplantation. 👀

🗣️Rayid Abdulqawi, Nicolás Tommasino, Ann Nguyen, Alessandro Bertani

View here 🔗 tinyurl.com/3yebnjh3

🔔Don't miss tomorrow's webinar!

Topic 👉 Management of Immunosuppression and Cancer Therapy in a Patient with a Kidney Transplant

🗣️Ala Ali, Itunu Owoyemi, Rachel Hellemans, Naoka Murakami

🗓️ Tuesday, March 3 at 9 am (ET)

Join here 🔗 tinyurl.com/4rd3ts7s

#Transplantation #TTS2026

At the 2025 World Transplant Congress, experts gathered to discuss the future of #LungTransplantation, from cutting-edge research to life-saving solutions for advanced pulmonary disease. @stephenjmdphd #TXPforAll #Transplantation tinyurl.com/36hm5yja

🚨#TTS2026 abstract submission now open + awards offered!

🌏Don't miss your chance to share your work with an international community of transplant professionals! Plus, check out these abstract-related awards! 💸

Learn more 👉 tts2026.org/program/call...

Bar graph titled "Figure 2. Bar Graph Showing Posttransplant Survival and Donor Age". It shows mean age and 1-y graft survival from 1995-1999 to 2020-2024. The 1-y graft survival is higher in DBD than DCD. The mean age is similar in both.

💬 Perspective: Advanced organ preservation techniques have facilitated the increased use of organs from donors after circulatory death (#DCD), improving outcomes and increasing access for more patients.

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#TBT to this week's featured top downloaded paper from 2025: The Second International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of BK Polyomavirus in Kidney Transplantation #Transplantation #Med tinyurl.com/24nuxvpf

🔔TTS grants are open!

🔹Research Grants provide funding to investigators to support their research in transplantation.

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🔹Bridge Grants support applicants from a low- or middle-income country who is not selected for a main Research Grant.

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⏰TTS leadership nominations due in 2 days - 18 Feb!

Open positions include👉

Officers:
🔹President-Elect
🔹Vice President
🔹Treasurer

Regional Councilors-at-large:
🔹Africa (1)
🔹Latin America (2)
🔹North America (1)
🔹Europe (1)

Nominate today! 🔗 www.tts.org/nominations

This paper by Leyder et al. shows that 🫁 lung transplants play by different immune rules. CD8+ T cells and even eosinophils may promote tolerance; not rejection! #TXPforAll #Transplantation #Immunology tinyurl.com/ax5zawcw

✨Meet the #TTS2026 Plenary Speakers!✨

🗣️Maria Grazia Roncarolo, Tatsuo Kawai, Anoma Nellore, Richard N. Pierson III, Wayne J. Hawthorne, Luz Padilla, John J. Fung, Haibo Wang, Ton J. Rabellink, and Olivia Smibert

Don't miss this event! 🔗https://tts2026.org/

Figure showing an overview of VEXAS syndrome. The clinical phenotype is expanding and the pathobiology of some manifestations have been elucidated. VEXAS=vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic.

VEXAS syndrome is a newly discovered multisystemic disease affecting most organs.

A Review provides a comprehensive overview of VEXAS syndrome, including the disease's discovery, diagnosis, and treatment: spkl.io/63322AsNa8

Our most-read paper! International experts reached new consensus guidance on managing immunosuppression to reduce skin cancer risk in kidney transplant recipients—highlighting when to adjust therapy and the importance of close dermatology collaboration. tinyurl.com/2tbfye8p

⏱️ It's time to nominate for TTS leadership!

Open positions include👉

3 Officers:
🔹President-Elect
🔹Vice President
🔹Treasurer

5 Regional Councilors-at-large:
🔹Africa (1)
🔹Latin America (2)
🔹North America (1)
🔹Europe (1)

🚨Noms due 18 Feb!

Learn more 🔗 www.tts.org/nominations

Safer, more durable kidney transplants were the focus at #WTC2025. Discussions centered on personalized immunosuppression, innovative trial designs, managing side effects, and improving adherence through patient education. #TXPforAll #Immunosuppression tinyurl.com/3czwpkmb

🔔Webinar recordings now available!

💡Topics:
🔹To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate: Who is the Question
🔹 How Regenerative Medicine Will Redefine Transplantation
🔹 Desensitization with Imlifidase
🔹 Implementing Molecular Diagnostics in Kidney Transplant Care

View here 👉 tts.org/education/tt...

🌟Share your science on a global stage 🌏

Submit your abstract to #TTS2026 and connect with leading experts moving the field forward🚀

✔️Submit by March 19, 2026

Submit here🔗https://tts2026.org/program/call-for-abstracts

This paper, which is available to download for free, notes that empowered patient and family volunteers are essential for effective and equitable transplant policies within the OPTN. #TXPforAll #Transplantation tinyurl.com/b9bh75w2

Graph showing use of AI stethoscope examinations (cardiac waveform recordings for AI interpretation) among recruited GP practices in the intervention group (n=96) during the first 12 months of implementation. Stacked bars represent the number of practices (y-axis, left) stratified by usage intensity category: high users (≥31 uses per month), medium users (10–30 uses per month), low users (<10 uses per month), and non-users (0 uses per month). Darker shades within each bar denote higher usage categories, with high users shown in the darkest shade. The overlaid line graph indicates cumulative number of AI stethoscope examinations (y-axis, right) over 12 months, with numbers above each bar denoting the total number of onboarded practices at that timepoint. AI=artificial intelligence. GP=general practitioner.

🆕 AI-enabled stethoscopes show promise for improving diagnosis of cardiovascular conditions, UK trial finds.

Find out more: spkl.io/63324AS3BE

🚨 Don't miss the latest Behind the Paper with Dr. Gerald Brandacher!

💡 Watch or listen to an interview about the evolving field of vascularized composite allotransplantation, and Brandacher's recent review on chronic rejection

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#TBT to this week's featured top downloaded paper from 2022: Advances in Kidney Preservation Techniques and Their Application in Clinical Practice #TXPforAll #Transplantation #Med tinyurl.com/4syckhzw

🔔Pediatric-focused webinar tomorrow, starting at 8 am!

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🌟Don't miss this week's #TTSPulse!

🔹TTS2026 abstract submissions are open!

🔹New podcast 👉 Behind the Paper with Gerald Brandacher

🔹Call for TTS leadership nominations - Due 18 Feb!

🔹Upcoming webinars plus recordings

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Celebrating Professor Jeremy Chapman, former Editor-in-Chief of *Transplantation*, as he reflects on his remarkable career and lifelong contributions to the field in a newly published paper. #TXPforAll #Transplantation tinyurl.com/mr4bvwdu

🔔There's still time to join today's webinar, starting at 4 pm (ET)!

Topic 👉 How Regenerative Medicine Will Redefine Transplantation by 2050

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Quote from a Comment published in The Lancet. Quote reads: These shifts can thus serve as a valuable overarching compass for joint global health reform efforts, steering the conversation from what needs changing to how to do it in practice.

"Struck by substantial funding cuts throughout 2025, the global health community stands at a crossroads."

A new Comment outlines four key paradigm shifts that could guide the transformation of the global health system: spkl.io/63325AUMj5

Change in Estimated GFR and Risk of Allograft Failure in... : Transplantation owing the diagnosis of AMR and the risk of subsequent death-censored graft failure using the joint modeling framework. We included recipients of solitary KTx between 1995 and 2013 at 4 transplant centers diagnosed with biopsy-proven active AMR at least 1 year post-KTx, who had a minimum of 3-year follow-up. Results. A total of 91 patients across participating centers were included in the analysis. Of the 91 patients, n = 54 patients (59%) met the death-censored graft failure endpoint and n = 62 patients (68%) met the all-cause graft failure composite endpoint. Kaplan-Meier death-censored graft survival rates at 12, 36, and 60 months postdiagnosis of AMR pooled across centers were 88.9%, 58.9%, and 36.4%, respectively. Spaghetti plots indicated a linear trend in the change in eGFR, especially in the first 12 months postdiagnosis of active AMR. A significant change in eGFR was observed within the first 12 months postdiagnosis of active AMR, getting worse by a factor of −0.757 mL/min/1.73 m2 per month during the 12-month analysis period (a delta of −9.084 mL/min/1.73 m2 at 1 y). Notably, an extrapolated 30% improvement in the slope of eGFR in the first 12 months was associated with a 10% improvement in death-censored graft failure at 5 years. Conclusions. If prospectively validated, this study may inform the design of pivotal clinical trials for therapies for late AMR....

#TBT to this week's featured top downloaded paper from 2022: Change in Estimated GFR and Risk of Allograft Failure in Patients Diagnosed With Late Active Antibody-mediated Rejection Following Kidney Transplantation #Transplantation #Med tinyurl.com/3n5wx6aj

🌟TTS 2026 abstract submission is now open! 🌟

We are thrilled to open abstract submissions for #TTS2026 in Sydney, Sept. 20-23! 🌏

✅ Deadline: March 19
Learn more 🔗 tts2026.org/program/call...