S03E07 Acute Graft Versus Host Disease With Ronjon Chakraverty
In episode seven we discuss Acute Graft versus Host disease with Prof Ronjon Chakraverty, a transplant consultant at UCLH. Our conversation on aGvHD covers grading, locations, treatment and strategies to prevent it, including HLA matching, post transplant cyclophosphomide, donor lymphocyte infusi...
The AI assisted future of organ transplantation
Our guest: Dr. Goutham Mehta@ZarathustrMehtaDr. Goutham Mehta has over a decade of experience in organ transplantation and practices as a consultant in multi-organ transplant surgery at Manipal Hospitals in Bangalore.Organ transplantation is a complex workflow. Dr. Goutham Mehta discusses this in...
How Damien Thompson pushed himself to the limit
Damien Thompson was diagnosed with ALL in 2010 at the age of just 23. He underwent a donor related allogeneic transplant and suffered sever GVHD. A number of years later post his bone marrow transplant, he had to undergo a double lung transplant.
Damien shares pearls of wisdom about how he got t...
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr. Vince DeVita
Dr. Hayes interviews Dr. DeVita about his role as Director of NCI and his time with CHOP and MOPP.
Dr. Daniel F. Hayes is the Stuart B. Padnos Professor of Breast Cancer Research at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. Dr. Hayes’ research interests are in the field of experimental the...
The Lancet Oncology: November 25, 2011
HLA matching of transplanted umbilical-cord blood for treating leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.
Meet Ken Aldrich the co-founder of International Stem Cell Corporation
Welcome to this podcast. I am Ken Aldrich, Chairman and co-founder of International Stem Cell Corporation.
International Stem Cell Corporation recently announced that our scientific team, led by our Chief Scientist, Dr. Elena Revazova, has created a new class of human stem cell lines that do not...
Tricky Concepts; HLA Matching, Chimerisms and DLI
Why aren’t all siblings a match for transplant? What do we mean by double organ transplant? How does the unrelated donor search work? What does this have to do with online dating? What happens if my chimerism is mixed? What is a donor lymphocyte infusion….
We take these questions to the head of...
