Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)
2024-2025 Executive Committee
Chair: Leonardo Riella (2026)
Co-Chair: Juliet Emamaullee (2026)
Past Chair: Jonathan Bromberg (2026)
Keri Lunsford (2025)
Scott Krummey (2025)
Muhammad Mohiuddin (2025)
Dan Jane-Wit (2026)
Miguel Fribourg (2026)
Early Career: Brittany Schreiber (2025)
Board Liaison: Paolo Cravedi (2025)
Interim Staff Liaison: Victoria Marino (vmarino@myast.org)
2023-2024 Activities
- Continue to provide a forum to share new cutting-edge transplant science, foster scientific dialog and collaboration, and increase the visibility of rising transplant scientists (WIPs = Work in Progress).
- Create basic and translational science programming for ATC 2024.
- Develop white paper from ATC 2023 MOuse MOdels in Transplantation (MOMOT) meeting.
- Request funding from the AST Board of Directors (the Board), and submit proposal for AST-sponsored symposium at AAI 2024.
- Request funding from the Board, and submit proposal for AST-sponsored symposium at FOCIS 2024.
- Discuss basic science transplant research through journal clubs, webinars, and the Hub.
- Create opportunities to foster leadership development for COTS members.
- Establish 2 Subcommittees focusing on COTS Programming and Education.