Research Opportunities
Specific research areas in Transfusion Medicine include:

• Epidemiology of transfusion-transmitted diseases in low-risk populations
• Donor retention studies
• Massive transfusion
• Blood component use during liver transplantation and cardiac bypass surgery
• Applications of hemopoietic growth factors in Transfusion Medicine
• Neutrophil kinetics
• Platelet immunology and serology
• Platelet storage
• Prevention and treatment of platelet alloimmunization
• Structure-function relationship of coagulation factors VIII and IX
• Molecular biology of hemophilia A and B
• Gene therapy for hemophilia

Specific research areas in Transplantation Medicine include:

• Clinical and animal models of induction and maintenance of graft tolerance
• Identification of endothelial cell antigens that are targets of immunological rejection
• Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
• Stem cell biology including in vitro expansion, differentiation, and induction
• Tissue biomechanics and cryopreservation
• The impact of cytokines on bone formation and maintenance
• Clinical studies of tissue transplantation
• Cytology and immunology of heart valve allografts
• Induction and maintenance of cell lines from fetal tissues
• Molecular analysis of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)
• Evolutionary analysis of MHC
• Effect of MHC on transplantation and disease susceptibility