Chinwe Onwere
Pronouns: she/her
Research Mentor(s): Fatima Fattahi
Research Mentor School/College/Department: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Medicine
Program: UROPF
Session: Session 2 (10:00am – 10:50am)
Authors: Chinwe Onwere, Fatima Fattahi, Patrick McLinden, Natalie Walker, Vibha Lama
Abstract
Lung transplantation has a 10-year survival rate of ~10%, lower than any other solid organ transplant. Patients with end-stage lung diseases have limited options other than transplant, necessitating better treatments to mitigate chronic injury caused by donor immune cells. The restrictive phenotype of chronic rejection, RAS, is caused by infiltrating B cells. Here we investigate their origins and how these cells are recruited to the lung.
