All Posts: organ rejection

• Eliminating the Need for Anti-Rejection Drugs for Transplant Recipients

  (January 9, 2022) — Courtney Howard, 43, needed a kidney transplant to save her life and be cured of hereditary polycystic kidney disease. While she knew the kidney transplant was inevitable, what she did not know is that her sister Shannon Walker, who had vowed to provide that kidney when it was needed, would also […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: immunotherapy, organ rejection, organ transplant, research