James A. Delmez Retires

When it was pointed out to retiring James (Jay) Delmez, MD, Professor of Medicine, that he had been here for 39 years, he countered by saying it was much longer than that. “I was born here,” he said. In his paced, quiet manner of speaking, Jay told the story of how his parents came to […]

Risk of Kidney Transplant Rejection Increases with Reactivation of Polyomavirus

A new study by WU researchers is one of the largest to simultaneously evaluate 10-year outcomes in three important areas of kidney transplantation: calcineurin inhibitor-based immunosuppression, polyomavirus reactivation, and immune responses to kidney-specific self-antigens fibronectin (FN) and collagen type-IV (Col-IV). The study, headed by Daniel C. Brennan, MD, FACP, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff […]