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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Comprehensive Transplant Immunobiology Laboratory

Publications

Learn more about the work we do in the Comprehensive Transplant Immunobiology Laboratory through our selected publications below, or visit the PubMed profile for Dr. Nadig.

  1. Ctortecka C, Jaishankar D, Su P, Huang CF, Pla I, Henning N, Hollas MAR, Callegari MA, Taylor ME, Lee YM, Daud A, Pinelli DF, Rohan V, Caldwell MA, Forte E, Sanchez A, Kelleher NL, Nadig SN. Top-Down Proteomics in the Assessment of Kidney Donor Quality: a novel approach to increased organ utilization. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2026 Feb 4:2026.02.02.26345404. doi: 10.64898/2026.02.02.26345404.
  2. Nadig SN. Federally Funded Research in Transplantation: Achievements, Strategy, and Vision. Transplantation. 2026 Feb 1;110(2):e279-e282. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005552
  3. Taylor ME, Jaishankar D, Madavaraju K, Yuk SA, Zhang K, Mei H, Lantz CW, Andrade da Silva LH, Lee YM, Burke JA, Atkinson C, Wang B, Scott EA, Nadig SN. Linking autophagy to endothelial cell immunogenicity in transplant-associated ischemia-reperfusion injury. Transpl Immunol. 2025 Dec;93:102315. doi: 10.1016/j.trim.2025.102315.
  4. Cravedi P, Riella LV, Ford ML, Valujskikh A, Menon MC, Kirk AD, Alegre ML, Alessandrini A, Feng S, Kehn P, Najafian N, Hancock WW, Heeger PS, Maltzman JS, Mannon RB, Nadig SN, Odim J, Turnquist H, Shaw J, West L, Luo X, Chong AS, Bromberg JS; AST COTS MOuse MOdels in Transplantation (MOMOT) work group. Advancing mouse models for transplantation research. Am J Transplant. 2024 Aug;24(8):1362-1368. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.01.006.
  5. Ho JW, Dawood ZS, Taylor ME, Liggett MR, Jin G, Jaishankar D, Nadig SN, Bharat A, Alam HB. THE NEUROENDOTHELIAL AXIS IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: MECHANISMS OF MULTIORGAN DYSFUNCTION, NOVEL THERAPIES, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS. Shock. 2024 Mar 1;61(3):346-359. doi: 10.1097/SHK.0000000000002307.
  6. Taylor ME, Jaishankar D, Ho JW, Alam HB, Bharat A, Nadig SN. Mitochondrial responses to brain death in solid organ transplant. Front Transplant. 2023 Mar 21;2:1082227. doi: 10.3389/frtra.2023.1082227. 
  7. Jaishankar D, Quinn KM, Sanders J, Plumblee L, Morinelli TA, Nadig SN.  Connexins in endothelial cells as a therapeutic target for solid organ transplantation.  Am J Transplant  2022 Nov;22(11):2502-2508. doi:10.1111/ajt.17104
  8. Plumblee L, Atkinson C, Jaishankar D, Scott E, Tietjen GT, Nadig SN.  Nanotherapeutics in transplantation: How do we get to clinical implementation?  Am J Transplant  2022 May;22(5):1293-1298. doi:10.1111/ajt.17012
  9. Tran DT, Tu Z, Alawieh A, Mulligan J, Esckilsen S, Quinn K, Sundararaj K, Wallace C, Finnegan R, Allen P  et al.  Modulating donor mitochondrial fusion/fission delivers immunoprotective effects in cardiac transplantation.  Am J Transplant  2022 Feb;22(2):386-401. doi:10.1111/ajt.16882
  10. Zhu P, Atkinson C, Dixit S, Cheng Q, Tran D, Patel K, Jiang YL, Esckilsen S, Miller K, Bazzle G  et al.  Organ preservation with targeted rapamycin nanoparticles: a pre-treatment strategy preventing chronic rejection in vivo.  RSC Adv  2018 Jul 23;8(46):25909-25919. doi:10.1039/c8ra01555d
  11. Tran DT, Esckilsen S, Mulligan J, Mehrotra S, Atkinson C, Nadig SN.  Impact of Mitochondrial Permeability on Endothelial Cell Immunogenicity in Transplantation.  Transplantation  2018 Jun;102(6):935-944. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000002163

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