SBIR/STTR Research Award
Surrogate Tolerogenesis for Xenotransplantation
Award amount
$726,828Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1997Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- XIMEREX, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The primary problem in organ transplantation today is the shortage of human donors. A proposed soluuse of pigs, but the risk of rejection is currently too great. The ultimate goal for transplant recispecific immune tolerance. They would then accept their grafts as "self' without immune suppression.naturally induced in fetuses, it is difficult to induce in adults. A novel approach, called "surroga
Technology keywords
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