Sometimes you are the man in green shirt😁

Congratulations to Allan Kirk, MD, PhD, FACS, the 2024 American Society of Transplantation (AST) Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient!

Couldn’t. Agree. More.

Please join us in congratulating @LMcElroy23, Assistant Professor of Surgery, for being appointed Director of the newly established Collaboratory for Health Services Research. Read More: duke.is/m/2h8u

When you realize what’s going on with behind the scenes, things get worse or better? #QuestionOfTheDay

A new meta-analysis published this month in Annals suggests that patients treated by female surgeons have lower mortality than those treated by male surgeons. journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

Excited to collaborate with BMI OrganBank on their $3.5M NIH grant to advance kidney preservation technology! The Duke Ex Vivo Organ Lab, led by Andrew Barbas , will evaluate this innovation in preclinical models, paving the way for clinical trials. otc.duke.edu/news/bmi-organ…

Thrilled to be part of this project! Thank you Andrew Barbas for letting us involve!

"Excited to share our study in Nature Biomedical Engineering! Directed evolution and cross-species cycling identified AAV.k13 & AAV.k20—AAVs with enhanced kidney tropism across species. A step forward for gene therapy in transplantation! Read more: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Kontrol edemediklerimizi ya da belirsizlikleri oluruna bırakmakla yaşayacağımız ne de çok rahatlama hissi ve mutluluk vardır. Her şeyi en ince detayına kadar ve aşırı miktarda düşünenler bunu bilebilselerdi keşke…

I have seen this movie before but I am not the person who watched it for the first time anymore.

Even during times of uncertainty, many of our #NobelPrize laureates keep working for a better world. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer worked "just for the fun of doing physics" and did not become a full professor until she was 58.

Proud to co–first author this new @AmJTransplant paper. We demonstrated that AAV-PD-L1 gene therapy can reduce rejection in a rodent lung transplant model. A step toward immunomodulation through gene delivery. Qimeng Gao Nihal AYKUN Alan Rosales, PhD Duke Ex Vivo Organ Lab Duke Surgery

Article in Press! Can gene therapy help prevent rejection? AAV-mediated PD-L1 delivery during cold storage was associated with reduced acute rejection in a rat lung transplant model. amjtransplant.org/article/S1600-… Isaac Alderete Duke Ex Vivo Organ Lab Qimeng Gao Nihal AYKUN Duke Surgery

Say of the day: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. 🪶

Excited to join the UCincyTransplant team in 2026 for a multi-visceral abdominal organ transplant fellowship! UC General Surgery Residents

Sade ve gürültüden uzak bir yaşam. Üretmek ve kimseye muhtaç olmadan yaşamak. Anlamlı bir kaç bağ. Yeterli. Geri kalan her şey sizin olsun.

Our abstract was selected for closing plenary session at #WTC2025 !! Thank you for your mentorship Andrew Barbas and thank you for contributions Isaac Alderete Qimeng Gao