The Donation Derby is back — and your Community of Practice (COP) needs your support! Every gift you make helps fund your COP’s initiatives and projects and brings them one step closer to victory. Rally behind your COP, make a donation, and help them race to the top!

As the 2025 AST membership year begins to close, don't forget to renew your membership and reaffirm your commitment to the AST. Renewal invoices were distributed via email and are due December 31, 2025. If you didn't receive your email, you may log in anytime to your AST member account. Don't miss out on all future AST educational, networking, advocacy, and research efforts!

On behalf of the AST, the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), and The Transplantation Society (TTS), we are excited to invite you to attend the International Transplantation Science Meeting 2025. 

 

ITS 2025 marks the fourth tri-society event in this global collaboration, bringing together top experts, early-career researchers, and transplant professionals worldwide. This meeting offers an exciting forum to explore cutting-edge basic and translational science in and beyond the field of transplantation.

You give everything to your work and your patients - now it’s your turn to recharge.

 

MemberDeals is an exclusive AST member site where you can save on experiences that will help you relax, recharge, and enjoy life.

 

You'll find discounted theme park tickets, special hotel rates, fun activities for family and friends, and so much more.

 

Find your balance. You’ve earned it.

The AST is now accepting applications for its 2026 Career Development Grant cycle! These grants promote the careers of early-career investigators whose research relates to solid organ transplantation (and/or immunology relating to solid organ transplant).

This powerful webinar brings together a donor mom and an organ recipient to share their personal stories of organ donation and transplantation. Through open and heartfelt reflections, they discuss the realities of grief, healing, and finding purpose on both sides of the transplant journey.

The AST developed a survey aimed at soliciting your perspectives on legislative and regulatory issues that significantly influence both patient care and professional practice. Our goal is to establish a platform for our membership to share their invaluable ideas and perspectives and actively engage with the Public Policy Committee and AST leadership. We look forward to your input as we navigate the dynamics of our ever-evolving landscape of transplant care and practice.

Source: Wiley Online Library
Living kidney donation is a crucial option for addressing the global organ shortage and providing kidney transplantation for patients suffering from end-stage kidney disease. Ensuring donor safety necessitates a comprehensive preoperative assessment of kidney anatomy and function. This study evaluates the relationship between kidney volumes derived from deep learning-based MRI volumetry, intraoperative kidney volume measurements, split renal function measured by renal scintigraphy, and post-donation eGFR. Deep learning-based MRI volumetry is hypothesized to be a reliable method with good correlation.

Source: Wiley Online Library
Transition of care from pediatric to adult providers occurs during a time of increased risk, especially in the liver transplant population where close follow-up and adherence to immunologic therapies are critical to patient and graft survival. While there is a substantial body of literature supporting the need for improved transition from pediatric to adult care, concrete steps on how to implement a clinic and partner with adult colleagues are lacking. This article aims to provide a flexible pathway for transition clinics that can be tailored to an institution's unique needs while also advocating for system-wide change to better support transitions in care, specifically through the lens of the United States health care system.
 

Source: Springer Nature Link
This study evaluated the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) at both the individual- and community-level and clinical outcomes among liver transplant recipients. A retrospective cohort study was conducted with 1567 deceased donor liver transplantation cases performed at Mayo Clinic Arizona from 2004 to 2022. Predictors included insurance status, self-reported education, the HOUsing-based index of Socioeconomic Status (HOUSES) index, and the Area Deprivation Index (ADI). The primary outcome was time to graft failure, analyzed using Cox proportional hazard models. The secondary outcome was mortality, also analyzed using Cox proportional hazard models. Exploratory outcomes included 30-day readmission and follow-up appointments using Poisson regression models. The sample was 66% male and 73% non-Hispanic White.

Source: AHA | ASA Journals
Porcine genome editing has revolutionized xenotransplantation, recently enabling the first pig-to-human heart xenotransplants. However, the xeno-immune response in heart xenografts remains largely unexplored. This study aimed to precisely characterize the xeno-immune response and injury in two heart xenografts, transplanted from 10-gene-edited pigs into brain-dead human recipients.