Working Groups
iGeneTRAiN has several phenotype-specific and -omics workgroups:
- Heart
- Kidney
- Liver
- Lung
- Genomic and other Omics (including SGS/GWAS/other genetic data)
- Pharmacogenomics
- HLA/Hematopoietic Stem Cell
HEART
Brian Piening PhD
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Portland, OR
Alexa Dowdell PhD
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Portland, OR
Mario Deng MD
Division of Cardiology, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Martin Cadeiras MD
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA.
Mengqi Zhang PhD
Penn Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, USA
KIDNEY
Matthew B. Lanktree MD PhD
Division of Nephrology, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Krzysztof Kiryluk MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Francesca Zanoni MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, and Division of Transplantation Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
Sangho Lee MD,
Department of Nephrology, Khung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
Ajay Israni, MD, MS
Department of Nephrology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Brendan Keating DPhil
Penn Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
LIVER
Goran B. Klintmalm, MD, Ph.D
Chairman and Chief of the Baylor Regional Transplant Institute, Dallas, USA
Jacqueline O’Leary, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Inpatient Liver and Transplant Unit, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Kim M. Olthoff, MD
Chief of the Division of Transplantation at Penn, Professor of Surgery, Philadelphia, USA
Elizabeth Rand, MD
Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Abraham (Avi) Shaked, MD, PhD
Director of the University of Pennsylvania Transplant Institute, Professor of Surgery, Philadelphia, USA
LUNG
John A. Belperio, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine at UCLA, USA
Marc Buijsrogge, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht
Jason D. Christie MD, MS
Chief of Division, Dept of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Depart of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Paul Corris, MD
Professor of Thoracic Medicine at the School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Andrew Fisher, MD, PhD, FRCP
Professor of Respiratory Transplant Medicine, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Medical School, Newcastle University, UK
Allan R. Glanville, MBBS, MD, FRACP
Professor of Medicine and Director Thoracic Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Samuel Goldfarb, MD
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
David Lederer, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Associate Medical Director, Lung Transplant Program, Co-Director, Interstitial Lung Disease Program, Columbia University, New York, USA
Keith C. Meyer, MD
Faculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, USA
Henny G. Otten, PhD
Immunologist, Laboratory of Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands
Scott M. Palmer, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
David Wilkes, MD
Professor of Medical Research, Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, Director, Center for Immunobiology, Executive Associate Dean for Research Affairs, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
GENOMICS/OMICS/ANALYSIS
Brian Piening PhD
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Portland, OR
Alexa Dowdell PhD
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Portland, OR
Mengqi Zhang PhD
Penn Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nathan Pankratz PhD
Divison of Computational Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Francesca Zanoni MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, and Division of Transplantation Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
PHARMACOGENOMICS
Brendan Keating DPhil
Penn Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Krzysztof Kiryluk MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Francesca Zanoni MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, and Division of Transplantation Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
Pam Jacobson, Ph.D
Department of Nephrology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
HLA/HSCT
Loren Gragert PhD
Department of Pathology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Brendan Keating DPhil
Penn Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Krzysztof Kiryluk MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Abraham (Avi) Shaked, MD, PhD
Director of the University of Pennsylvania Transplant Institute, Professor of Surgery, Philadelphia, USA
Nathan Pankratz PhD
Division of Computational Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Minneapolis, MN, USA.