Clinical Trials for Immunosuppression in Transplantation; The Case for Reform and Change in Direction.

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Published in Transplantation on February 15, 2017

Authors

Philip J OʼConnell1, Dirk R Kuypers, Roslyn B Mannon, Michael Abecassis, Stephen J Chadban, John S Gill, Barbara Murphy, Peter W Nickerson, Jesse D Schold, Peter G Stock, Daniel Seron, Rita R Alloway, Jonathan S Bromberg, Klemens Budde, Stanley C Jordan, Christophe Legendre, Carmen Lefaucheur, Minnie Sarwall, Dorry L Segev, Mark D Stegall, Stefan G Tullius, Germaine Wong, E Steve Woodle, Nancy Ascher, Randall E Morris

Author Affiliations

1: 1 Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 2 Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. 3 Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL. 4 Division of Organ Transplantation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. 5 Department of Renal Medicine, University of Sydney at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia. 6 The Division of Nephrology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 7 Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 8 Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. 9 Transplant Immunology Laboratory, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Blood Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 10 Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. 11 Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. 12 Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. 13 Department of Nephrology, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 14 Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH. 15 Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. 16 Department of Nephrology, Universitätsklinikum Charité, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. 17 The Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 18 Service de Néphrologie-Transplantation, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris France. 19 INSERM U845, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France. 20 Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Saint-Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. 21 Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. 22 Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 23 Departments of Surgery and Immunology, von Liebig Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. 24 Transplant Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 25Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH. 26 Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.

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