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The ongoing wearables study is enrolling transplant patients and their household members to wear smart watches that measure biometrics, such as heart rate, heart rate variability, blood pressure, sleep and respiratory patterns, activity, and saturating oxygen levels. Algorithms are being applied to the data streams from these devices. These algorithms…

iGeneTRAiN start recruiting transplant patients and their family members into a wearable device study to detect SARS-CoV-2 and other post-transplant infections Jan 7, 2021 The increasing global prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting COVID-19 disease pandemic pose significant concerns for clinical management of pediatric and adult solid organ transplant recipients…

iGeneTRAiN awarded a U01 from NIH/NIAID for MHC and KIR sequencing Oct 09, 2020 iGeneTRAiN investigators have been awarded a U01 grant from the NIAID/NIH “MHC and KIR Sequencing and Association Analyses in the iGeneTRAiN Studies”. (PD/PI Brendan Keating – contact bkeating@upenn.edu) HLA donor-recipient (D-R) matching is critical for graft…

iGeneTRAiN awarded an R01 from NIH/NIAID for heart transplant multiomics Jun 07, 2020 iGeneTRAiN investigators have been awarded a $3.87 million R01 grant from the NIAID/NIH “Multi-omic Biomarker Discovery and Validation in Heart Transplant Patient Populations”. (PD/PI Brendan Keating – contact bkeating@upenn.edu) Despite major advances in heart transplant patient management,…

Kidney Transplant Rejection Biomarkers Sought in Newly Funded Urinary Omics Study Aug 02, 2017 | Andrea Anderson NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – An international team led by investigators at the University of Pennsylvania is gearing up to do a large, multicenter project involving multi-omic profiling on urine samples to search for…

Over the last 18 months we have expanded the iGeneTRAiN members to include a number of new groups including those below: University of San Francisco: Over 700 Lung Transplant DNA samples (PI: John Greenland) King Faisal Research Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Over 600 liver transplant samples Intermountain Heart Utah: Over…

May 24, 2017 NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Scientific data management firm Ovation Life Sciences announced today that it has received $1.5 million in funding from a group of new and existing investors. Participants in the financing included StageDotO and Longfellow Ventures. Ovation's main products are a lab service for the…

Nov 04, 2016 NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A team led by Stanford University's Michael Snyder, in collaboration with investigators from the International Genetics & Translational Research in Transplantation Network (iGeneTrain) consortium,  has started applying its integrative omics approaches to studies aimed at improving the safety and effectiveness of organ transplantation. The…

GenomeWeb Oct 08, 2015 Andrew P. Han NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Affymetrix launched its new transplant genotyping array this week, coinciding with two new papers from the International Genetics and Translational Research in Transplantation Network, with whom it designed the array. The new product will help scientists uncover the mechanisms…

Team aims to revolutionize understanding of how gene variants affect organ transplant outcomes International team of researchers co-led by Penn aims to revolutionize understanding of how gene variants affect organ transplant outcomes Data from transplant studies expected to improve understanding of transplant complications and improve patient care UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA…