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Overview

Kathryn J. Wood is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and immunology, with a focus on transplantation. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including transplantation, immunology, surgery, oncology, and epidemiology.

Their work primarily targets key topics such as renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, T-cell and B-cell immunology, CAR-T cell therapy research, organ and tissue transplantation research, and transplantation methods and outcomes.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Regulatory cell therapy in kidney transplantation (The ONE Study): a harmonised design and analysis of seven non-randomised, single-arm, phase 1/2A trials, 2020, The Lancet
  • Banff 2019 Meeting Report: Molecular diagnostics in solid organ transplantation-Consensus for the Banff Human Organ Transplant (B-HOT) gene panel and open source multicenter validation, 2020, American Journal of Transplantation
  • Feasibility, long-term safety, and immune monitoring of regulatory T cell therapy in living donor kidney transplant recipients, 2020, American Journal of Transplantation
  • Imlifidase Desensitization in Crossmatch-positive, Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Recipients: Results of an International Phase 2 Trial (Highdes), 2020, Transplantation
  • Immune resilience despite inflammatory stress promotes longevity and favorable health outcomes including resistance to infection, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Fadi Issa
  • Joanna Hester
  • Paul Harden
  • Matthew J. Bottomley
  • Peter J. Friend

Scholarly articles by this scientist are often published in journals such as the American Journal of Transplantation, Transplantation, Nature Communications, and Frontiers in Immunology.

Best Publications

  • Regulatory T cells in transplantation tolerance.

    Kathryn J. Wood;Shimon Sakaguchi

  • CD25+CD4+ Regulatory T Cells Prevent Graft Rejection: CTLA-4- and IL-10-Dependent Immunoregulation of Alloresponses

    Cherry I. Kingsley;Mahzuz Karim;Andrew R. Bushell;Kathryn J. Wood

  • IL-10 Is Required for Regulatory T Cells to Mediate Tolerance to Alloantigens In Vivo

    Masaki Hara;Cherry I. Kingsley;Masanori Niimi;Simon Read

  • Development of a cross-platform biomarker signature to detect renal transplant tolerance in humans

    Pervinder Sagoo;Esperanza Perucha;Birgit Sawitzki;Stefan Tomiuk

  • Regulatory immune cells in transplantation

    Kathryn J. Wood;Andrew Bushell;Joanna Hester

  • Indirect presentation of MHC antigens in transplantation

    Daniel A. Shoskes;Kathryn J. Wood

  • Mechanisms of Rejection: Current Perspectives

    Kathryn J. Wood;Ryoichi Goto

  • Regulatory cell therapy in kidney transplantation (The ONE Study): a harmonised design and analysis of seven non-randomised, single-arm, phase 1/2A trials.

    Birgit Sawitzki;Paul N Harden;Petra Reinke;Aurélie Moreau

  • IgG Endopeptidase in Highly Sensitized Patients Undergoing Transplantation.

    Stanley C. Jordan;Tomas Lorant;Jua Choi;Christian Kjellman

  • Mesenchymal Stromal Cells: Facilitators of Successful Transplantation?

    Karen English;Anna French;Kathryn J. Wood

  • IFN-gamma production by alloantigen-reactive regulatory T cells is important for their regulatory function in vivo.

    Birgit Sawitzki;Birgit Sawitzki;Cherry I. Kingsley;Vanessa Oliveira;Mahzuz Karim

  • Peripheral tolerance to alloantigen results from altered regulation of the interleukin 2 pathway.

    M J Dallman;O Shiho;T H Page;K J Wood

  • In vivo prevention of transplant arteriosclerosis by ex vivo-expanded human regulatory T cells

    Satish N Nadig;Joanna Więckiewicz;Douglas C Wu;Gregor Warnecke

  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells Prevent the Rejection of Fully Allogenic Islet Grafts by the Immunosuppressive Activity of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 and -9

    Yunchuan Ding;Danmei Xu;Gang Feng;Andrew Bushell

  • The Th1/Th2 paradigm and the allograft response

    T. B. Strom;P. Roy-Chaudhury;R. Manfro;Xin Xiao Zheng

  • Immunological unresponsiveness induced by recipient cells transfected with donor MHC genes

    Joren C. Madsen;Riccardo A. Superina;Kathryn J. Wood;Peter J. Morris

  • Chimerism and transplantation tolerance: cause and effect.

    Kathryn Wood;David H. Sachs

  • Analyses of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in operational tolerance after pediatric living donor liver transplantation.

    Ying Li;Takaaki Koshiba;Atsushi Yoshizawa;Yukihide Yonekawa

  • IL-33 expands suppressive CD11b+ Gr-1(int) and regulatory T cells, including ST2L+ Foxp3+ cells, and mediates regulatory T cell-dependent promotion of cardiac allograft survival.

    Hēth R. Turnquist;Zhenlin Zhao;Brian R. Rosborough;Quan Liu;Quan Liu

  • Alloantigen-Induced CD25+CD4+ Regulatory T Cells Can Develop In Vivo from CD25−CD4+ Precursors in a Thymus-Independent Process

    Mahzuz Karim;Cherry I. Kingsley;Andrew R. Bushell;Birgit S. Sawitzki

  • Regulatory T cells in transplantation.

    Mahzuz Karim;Andrew R Bushell;Kathryn J Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Morris
Peter J. Morris John Radcliffe Hospital
Birgit Sawitzki
Birgit Sawitzki Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Shimon Sakaguchi
Shimon Sakaguchi Osaka University
Peter J. Friend
Peter J. Friend University of Oxford
Robert I. Lechler
Robert I. Lechler King's College London
Stuart E. Turvey
Stuart E. Turvey University of British Columbia
Michel Goldman
Michel Goldman Université Libre de Bruxelles
Shay Soker
Shay Soker Wake Forest University
Dave L. Roelen
Dave L. Roelen Leiden University Medical Center
Hans-Dieter Volk
Hans-Dieter Volk Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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