TRANSPLANT RESEARCH PROGRAM
The Briscoe Laboratory
Transforming Clinical Care In Pediatric Transplantation Through Innovative Research
Our Research
The focus of the program is to perform basic research to further understand the molecular basis for chronic allograft rejection in children, the leading cause of graft failure following transplantation.
Members of the Transplant Research Program study the alloimmune response, the cellular basis for immunomodulation and roles for new molecules, novel receptors and signaling pathways that are causative of disease after transplantation.
The application of these discoveries clinically advance our approach to therapy and have high potential to limit complications following transplantation. Our overall goal is to transform clinical care through basic and translational research and discovery.
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David Briscoe, MD
David Briscoe is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, the Casey Lee Ball Chair in Transplantation, and Director of the Transplant Research Program at Boston Children’s Hospital.
He graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons Medical School in Ireland and completed his initial residency training in General Medicine and Pediatrics in Dublin, Ireland. He subsequently trained at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, and at Boston Children’s Hospital. His initial postdoctoral research was performed in the laboratory of Dr. Jordan Pober, and a second postdoctoral fellowship was performed under the mentorship of Drs. Ramzi Cotran and Andrew Lichtman at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
In 2013, he was appointed Director of the Transplant Research Program, and in 2015, he became the first incumbent Casey Lee Ball Chair in Transplantation. David is a an elected member of the National Physician-Scientist Honors Society, the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI).
Our Team
Research Opportunities
open positions
Positions are available for highly motivated undergraduate and post-graduate trainees
with an interest and expertise in cellular and molecular immunobiology.
If interested we would love to hear from you, please get in touch.
Publications
PubMed Listings
Click below for a complete listing of Briscoe Laboratory Publications
Latest Lab News
January 2023
Liang joins the group as a research fellow. Welcome Liang!!
September 2021
The U01 grant is funded!! Thanks to all our collaborators. We look...
September 2019
The ‘Woda Paper' accepted to Biochem Biophys Research Communications....
August 2021
Johannes’ promotion to Assistant Professor is formal. Congratulations...
January 2021
Allan leaves the laboratory to move to industry. We wish you good luck in...