Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)
2018-2019 Executive Committee
Staff Liaison: Anne Kreiss (akreiss@myAST.org)
Chair: David Rothstein (2020)
Co-Chair: Anita Chong (2020)
Past Chair: Maria-Luisa Alegre (2020)
Board Liaison: Ronald Gill (2019)
William Burlingham (2019)
Peter Heeger (2019)
Megan Levings (2019)
Geoffrey Camirand (2020)
Emmanuel Zorn (2020)
Trainee: Christine McIntosh (2019)
2018-2019 Initiatives
- Continue organizing quarterly journal clubs
- Continue Outstanding Questions in Transplantation initiative to use as discussion forum by COTS and AST community-at-large to inform future research and start writing the first minireviews for AJT on the first few topics discussed
- Plan AST/ESOT/TTS co-sponsored and co-organized International Transplant Science symposium for 2019 (ITS 2019)
- Submit proposals for basic science symposia for ATC 2019
- Submit proposal for AST-sponsored symposium at AAI 2019
- Plan ITS 2019
- Propose basic science webinars and Transplant in 10 basic science topics
- Write mini-reviews for AJT on the first Outstanding Questions in Transplantation that have been discussed on the Hub
- Discuss a pipeline through which COTS members can volunteer for ATC and ITS abstract reviewing, chairing sessions, awards etc., to facilitate career development
- Keep revisiting mission statement and strategic plan
- Evaluate whether transplantation grants have been progressively disadvantaged over NCI grants in TTT study section
- Continue the online repository of experimental protocols and historical transplant papers on the COTS website
- Nominate COTS members for the board and leadership positions at COTS
- Continue informal gatherings of COTS members at AAI, ASN, and FOCIS, as well as ESOT (Rotterdam), and ITS
- Continue encouraging members to suggest initiatives and ideas through the quarterly blog
- Encourage basic transplant scientists to become AST members
- Continue to send quarterly updates with COTS initiatives and accomplishments