Season 3 Episode 5: Stanford Pioneers Revolutionary Dual-Transplant Approach (Kidney Treatment)

Global Kidney Care Podcast Provided by ISN - A podcast by Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Smeeta Sinha

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This episode of the Global Kidney Care podcast is hosted by Maria E. Diaz-Gonzalez de Ferris, Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a member of the ISN Education Working Group. She is joined in conversation with Paul Grimm, MD at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. They will discuss Dr. Grimm’s participation in how Stanford have enabled children to receive kidney transplants without need for immune-suppressing drugs, thanks to a revolutionary method that transplants the donor’s immune system to the patient before surgeons implant the kidney, “dual immune/solid organ transplant,” or DISOT.