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Mapping Immune Responses to CMV in Transplant Recipients

Elaine Reed, PhD

Elaine Reed, PhD, lead investigator in the consortium

Researchers from UCLA have teamed up with ones from UCSF and City of Hope to obtain a prestigious $8 million Human Immune Phenotyping Consortium U19 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on immune profiling of cytomegalovirus infection in renal transplantation.  Individual investigators include: Drs. Elaine Reed (PI), Suphamai Bunnapradist, Mario Deng, David Elashoff, David Gjertson, Alexander Hoffman, Maura Rossetti, Joanna Schaenman, and Otto Yang at UCLA; Drs. Minnie Sarwal (Co-PI), Lewis Lanier, Marina Sirota and Flavio Vincenti at UCSF; and Dr. Don Diamond at City of Hope. Interactions facilitated by the I3T Theme led to the successful building of this research team.

Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a member of the Herpes virus family, has evolved alongside humans for thousands of years with a complex balance of latency, immune evasion, and transmission. While up to 70% of humans worldwide have evidence of CMV infection and seroprevalence approaches 100% in certain areas, healthy people show little to no clinical symptoms of primary infection. However, CMV is one of the most problematic pathogens in the immunocompromised host, after solid organ and stem cell transplantation causing increased risk of graft dysfunction, graft loss and recipient mortality. The UCLA-UCSF-City of Hope Consortium will study immune responses to CMV in immunocompromised renal transplant recipients using a high-throughput systems biology approach, carefully curated clinical information and novel statistical and computational approaches. 

The long-term goal of the research is to develop a detailed molecular map of the cross-talk between the innate and adaptive immune response in primary and latent CMV infection in the transplant recipient in order to define the effects of CMV infection on the development of transplant rejection and, more broadly, injury. Detailed insights into the interaction of the virus with the immune system stand to generate new concepts for more adequate vaccine strategies and risk assessment for CMV infection, and possibly for reduced or delayed immune injury to the transplanted organ.

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