Fighting a common viral infection in kidney transplant patients

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 09:20 in Health & Medicine

Organ transplants save lives, but the immune-suppressing drugs needed to protect a transplant leave the recipient susceptible to potentially deadly infections like cytomegalovirus, or CMV. Now, a team of researchers is trying to predict which kidney transplant patients might be at risk. With the help of a grant from Stanford ChEM-H, Olivia Martinez, a research professor […]

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