The primary mission of the Comprehensive Transplant Center (CTC) is to foster collaborative research. Many of these collaborations are informal and vary greatly in size and scope. As specific collaborations develop, we will highlight them on this website and link to their websites as applicable.
NUTORC is a broad collaboration of diverse investigators united in conducting transplant-related health services research. This collaboration includes members of the Comprehensive Transplant Center, Institute for Healthcare Studies, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and others. Five workgroups, Transplantation Communication, Transplantation Quality of Life, Transplantation Risk Assessment/Economics, Health Informatics, and Transplantation Safety and Outcomes, serve as catalysts that unite experts from many disciplines in order to develop and carry out health outcomes research related to transplantation.
NUTORC aims to build upon the existing research and clinical strengths of the members to create a multidisciplinary, cooperative, research group that will focus on health services and outcomes research related to all aspects of organ transplantation. To learn more, please visit the NUTORC website.
For additional information download the NUTORC Brochure.
NUCTRIBE brings together researchers in transplant-related immunology and biomedical engineering who are working on immune tolerance, virus latency and reactivation, dendritic cell and Th-17 immunobiology, islet cell transplantation, tissue engineering, and many other fields. These researchers are building on successful individual research projects to build broad transdisciplinary collaborations that intend to solve the greatest challenges facing transplantation research. Faculty are interested in ideas for program and other large-scale grant opportunities that capitalize on Northwestern’s strengths across departments and schools.
Directors
Joseph Leventhal, MD, PhD
Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD
Jason Wertheim, MD, PhD
NUCTRIBE Collaborative Relationships Among Faculty in Basic Science Disciplines
Members of the Chicago Transplant Ethics Consortium (CTEC) have been meeting regularly since June 2003 for topical case review and deliberation in order to better understand and meaningfully respond to ethical issues in organ transplantation on a local, regional, national, and international level. This interdisciplinary group has a diverse membership comprised of voluntary individuals from various disciplines and institutions with a common interest in the evolving social and ethical aspects of organ transplantation. The consortium includes physicians and nurses from various medical disciplines including but not limited to transplantation, social workers, ethicists and philosophers as well as recipients and living donors. Members include health care professionals and administrators from both adult and pediatric transplant programs. CTEC Brochure