Community of Transplant Scientists (COTS)
2022-2023 Executive Committee
Chair: Jonathan Bromberg (2024)
Co-Chair: Leonardo Riella (2024)
Past Chair: Anita Chong (2024)
William Kitchens (2023)
Andrew Wells (2023)
Anoma Nellore (2023)
Paolo Cravedi (2024)
Juliet Emamaullee (2024)
Early Career: Jordan Warunek (2023)
Board Liaison: Mandy Ford (2023)
Staff Liaison: Raffaella Pace (rpace@myast.org)
2022-2023 Initiatives
- Organize journal clubs that feature the first or last author discussing their work.
- Organize Outstanding Questions in Transplantation Research – a web-based discussion forum by which COTS and the AST community-at-large can inform future research.
- Outstanding Questions in Transplantation Research will be used as a platform for AJT mini-reviews to summarize and extend the discussion begun in the forum.
- Actively participate in planning ITS 2023 now planned for April 2023.
- Submit proposals for basic science AND Translational symposia for ATC 2023.
- Request funding from the AST Board of Directors (the Board), and submit proposal for AST-sponsored symposium at AAI 2023.
- Request funding from the Board, and submit proposal for AST-sponsored symposium at FOCIS 2023.
- Continue organizing quarterly journal clubs.
- Propose basic science webinars and “Transplant in 10” basic science topics.
- Write minireviews for AJT on the Outstanding Questions in Transplantation Research that have been discussed on the Hub.
- Develop a pipeline through which COTS members can volunteer for ATC and ITS abstract reviewing, chairing sessions, awards, etc., to facilitate career development.
- Continue to revisit mission statement and strategic plan.
- Promote the online repository of experimental protocols and historical transplant papers on the COTS web page.
- Nominate COTS members for the Board and leadership position with COTS as well as for the AST Board.
- Continue informal gatherings of COTS members at AAI, ASN, FOCIS, and ITS.
- Continue encouraging members to suggest initiatives and ideas through the quarterly blog.
- Encourage transplant scientists to become AST and COTS members.
- Aim to send quarterly updates with COTS initiatives and accomplishments.