The Atkinson Lab

The Carl Atkinson Lab at Northwestern @NUFeinbergMed. Focuses include transplant immunology, complement biology, innate immunity, & more. Views are our own.

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

@Sharma_Ashish_K @Victorialeroy3 @UFSurgery Congratulations, Dr. Leroy! 🎉 - the Atkinson Lab

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

As always, it was great to spend time with fellow complement scientists at #ICW2023. Proud of PhD candidate @dianna_nord for winning a "best oral presentation" prize for her work on complement in neutrophils. Thanks to @ComplementSoc for a great meeting in Newcastle.

[Alhaji H. Janneh @ajanneh_18]

In our latest forum article, @trendscancer, we discussed the critical roles of sphingolipids and the complement system in promoting cancer growth/survival. Check it out https://t.co/JP5Sp06TWG.
Thanks, @AtkinsonLab

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

Fantastic day at #ATC2023SanDiego! Dr. Atkinson delivered two incredible presentations sharing some of the lab's work on 1) complement inhibition in organ Tx and 2) strategies for targeted immunosuppression to the endothelium in lung Tx.

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

Congratulations to lab alumnus Dr. Danh Tran whose PhD dissertation work has won the AJT Basic Science Paper of the Year Award! @DanhTTran @SatishNadig #ATC2023SanDiego

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

Our laboratory had an excellent time at #ISHLT2023 in Denver last week! PhD students @dianna_nord and Blake Gill presented some of the lab's work. Always great to learn from and catch up with the @ISHLT community.

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

We are currently recruiting Post-Doctoral Associates with backgrounds in immunology, complement biology, or transplantation to join our team! Interested candidates - please email your CV to [email protected] to learn more.

[UF Health Cancer Institute @UFHealthCancer]

A @UF team led by Andrew Judge, Ph.D., Carl Atkinson, Ph.D., & Sarah Judge, Ph.D. has received a $2.3 million grant from the @NIH_NIAMS to investigate strategies to treat muscle wasting and weakness caused by #PancreaticCancer.

#CancerCachexia

Read more: https://t.co/YUz9P67X60

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

We are excited to share our latest publication in the Journal of Immunology @J_Immunol. The work, led by Dr. Jennifer Mulligan, reveals a novel regulatory relationship between complement activation and local vitamin D metabolism in airway epithelial cells. https://t.co/fa2UkI8PLw

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

2 days into #ATC2022! Yesterday evening, our surgical research fellow Dr. Leah Plumblee presented the lab’s work utilizing ex-vivo treatments to stabilize cell junctions and improve outcomes in a porcine renal transplant model. #ATC2022Boston

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

Hello from Boston! Our lab members are at #ATC2022 this week to learn & collaborate with others in the transplant field. Today PhD candidate @dianna_nord presented the lab’s work on mitochondrial transplantation in #LTx.

[Satish Nadig, MD PhD @SatishNadig]

Another patent for @AtkinsonLab and our lab @NM_Transplant on donor organ pre treatment with nanotherapy. One more step closer to the bedside. #sciencerocks

[Dianna Nord, PhD @dianna_nord]

To all early-career complement biology researchers - fill out the ECCO survey! Doing so will help us understand our members' needs and to suggest ideas that will improve the field of complement research for all.

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

More evidence supporting the efficacy of targeted complement inhibition! We recently collaborated with Stephen Tomlinson at @MUSChealth to show that P-selectin targeted complement inhibitors specifically localized to reperfused tissue and reduced injury in a murine limb Tx model.

[Frontiers - Immunology @FrontImmunol]

New Research: Characterization of Novel P-Selectin Targeted Complement Inhibitors in Murine Models of Hindlimb Injury and Transplantation: The complement system has long been recognized as a potential druggable target for a variety of… https://t.co/wIVNxG1lMn #immunology

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

We are excited to share our latest publication in collaboration with Dr. @SatishNadig on the immunoprotective effects of altering donor mitochondrial fission/fusion during cardiac transplantation! @amjtransplant
https://t.co/wrCYr0kLgn

[UF Health @UFHealth]

After contracting COVID-19, Dr. Sean Devine's lungs were scarred & unable to work on their own. He was flown to @UFHealth, one of two places in the U.S. at the time that had successfully performed a COVID-19 double lung transplant. Hear his story of strength, recovery and love.

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

We recently showed that VCA donor graft treatment pre-transplantation with CR2-Crry provided protection from IRI and delayed graft rejection. The results are published in our new paper with collaborators at @MUSChealth in the lab of Stephen Tomlinson:
https://t.co/z2lbIM00GZ

[The Atkinson Lab @AtkinsonLab]

We are extremely proud to annonce that lab member Alexander McQuiston successfully defended his PhD Dissertation earlier this month and will be starting as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford later this fall. Congrats, Dr. McQuiston! You will be missed!

[Felix Poppelaars @FPoppelaars]

Important work by Sommer et al. showing organ-specific differences in tolerance induction in #transplantation.

Why is this important? A “one-size-fits-all” approach in transplantation is unsuccessful, and we can't assume that all organs benefit from the same immunosuppression.

[ABC News @ABC]

“This surge is actually much bigger than anything that we've seen before.”

Dr. Hiren Mehta describes the unbearable conditions inside UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, as the COVID-19 crisis continues to worsen across much of the South. https://t.co/Vyrr0Sxwzo