From injury to outcome: Epithelial–immune–stromal interactions that define graft fate
Dr Valeria Mas, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland
Thursday, 11 December 2025, 2.30pm to 3pm
LG1 Seminar Room, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7DQ
Biography
Valeria R. Mas, MSc, PhD, Joseph and Corinne Schwartz, Professor of Surgical Sciences Research in Transplantation, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Chief, Surgical Sciences Division, Department of Surgery at University of Maryland. Dr Valeria Mas is a cellular and molecular transplant immunologist with expertise in high throughput molecular applications and big data analyses aimed to evaluate the molecular and cellular pathways and regulatory networks that are associated with kidney allograft response to injury and long-term outcomes.
She plays critical roles in multiple national and international committees (e.g., Co-Chair Kidney Week 2027, American Society of Nephrology (2026-2027), President, International Liver Transplant Society, American Society of Transplantation (AST) Membership Committee, AST Community of Basic Scientists Executive Committee (2016-present), Chair AST Research Network Translational Scientific Review Committee and is an editorial board member of the American Journal of Transplantation.
Open to all. Please register your intention to attend by email to Sue Patchett (susan.patchett@nds.ox.ac.uk).