University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2015

Protecting transplanted kidneys without anti-rejection drugs

By Jordana Lenon, B.S., B.A. “Transplants are surviving longer, but the patients are not as healthy as they could be,” says Lynn Haynes, distinguished researcher of transplant research and development in the School of Medicine and Public Health. “We have made tremendous strides in drug development to prolong graft survival, but the required life-long immunosuppressive medications …