Round up of our presenters at #ATC2026Boston Day 2. Presenter 1: Anat Tambur, DMD, PhD, D[ABHI]: “Hierarchy and Directionality of Humoral Alloimmune Response Determined by Donor and Recipient HLA-DW Divergence” Presenter 2: Amna Daud, MD, MPH: “Enhancing Health Equity in Transplantation Through Access Programs at Northwestern Medicine”

“If someone is not able to have a second chance at life somewhere else in the country, they should be thinking, ‘I wonder if we can go to Northwestern Medicine and get it done,'” Satish Nadig, MD: bit.ly/46T4HnM

Learn how Satish Nadig, MD, and his team performed the first awake kidney transplant at @NorthwesternMed with a single spinal anesthesia injection. Read now: usnews.com/news/health-news/… via @usnews

When Brad was diagnosed with kidney disorder, he says “everything changed… because I was a different person.” See how Brad’s story changed when a stranger stepped up to the plate.

Dinee C. Simpson, MD (@DineeMD), founded the African American Transplant Access Program at @NorthwesternMed to mitigate these disparities. Learn more about how this program helps Black patients navigate the transplant process and more. nm.org/healthbeat/medical-ad…

Congratulations to Joseph R. Leventhal, MD (@transplantjoe1), for being awarded $697,812 from @Stanford for the continuation of the CIRM study.

Let's give a big congratulations to Daniela P. Ladner, MD, MPH, and Satish N. Nadig, MD, PhD, for receiving the 2023 Northwestern University Research Mentor Award. Their dedication to mentoring has been truly inspiring, and we are grateful for their contributions to the field.

We congratulate James Mathew, PhD, for accepting the position of Editor-in-Chief of Human Immunology at the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.