Organ Transplantation Research in the Department of Medicine, Alfred Hospital

Head: Professor Napier M Thomson

Current Projects

• Growth factors in experimental renal allograft rejection.
• Renal dysfunction in patients receiving cardiac transplants.
• Cellular infiltrate, growth factor expression and adhesion molecule expression in subendocardial cardiac transplant biopsies from patients with cardiac transplants.
• Leucocyte infiltration and growth factor expression in chronic rejection of small bowel.
• Contribution of ischaemic injury to chronic rejection damage.
• Haemodynamic factors in chronic renal allograft rejection.
• Apoptosis in clinical cardiac allograft rejection.
• Apoptosis in acute and chronic renal allograft rejection.
• Mechanisms of injury in cyclosporin A nephrotoxicity