Center for Transplantation Sciences (CTS) Team

Faculty and staff in the Center for Transplantation Sciences (CTS) at Massachusetts General Hospital collaborate to conduct innovative research on organ and bone marrow transplantation.

Center for Transplantation Sciences (CTS) Faculty

• Alessandro Alessandrini, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery
  • Research topics: Tolerance, signaling pathways, acute & chronic rejection, tumor immunology
• James S. Allan, MD

  • Associate Professor of Surgery
  • Chief, Thoracic Surgery, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
  • Research topics: Tolerance, xenotransplantation, thymus transplantation, nanobiologics

• Gilles Benichou, PhD, DSc

  • Associate Professor of Surgery and Immunology
  • Research topics: Tolerance, allorecognition, T cell memory, heterologous immunity, exosomes
• Robert B. Colvin, MD

  • Benjamin Castleman Distinguished Professor of Pathology
  • Pathologist-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital, emeritus
  • Research topics: Mechanisms of graft rejection and tolerance

• A. Benedict Cosimi, MD

  • Chief Emeritus, Division of Transplantation
  • Claude E. Welch Distinguished Professor of Surgery
  • Research topics: Experimental and clinical tolerance induction, xenotransplantation, Ischemia/reperfusion
• Alex Cuenca, MD, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Research Topics: Innate Immunity, tolerance, immunosuppression

• Thiago Borges, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery
  • Research topics: Inhibitory receptors, Innate immunity, Immune regulation, VCA, Xenotransplantation
• Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD

  • A. Benedict Cosimi Chair in Transplant Surgery
  • Director, Legorreta Center for Clinical Tolerance
  • Research Topics: Tolerance (kidney, liver, islet and VCA), kidney xenotransplantation

• Leslie Kean, MD, PhD

  • Professor of Pediatrics
  • Director, Stem Cell Transplantation, Boston Children's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute
  • Research Topics: Bone marrow transplantation, GvHD, CAR T cell therapy
• Christian LeGuern, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Surgery & Immunology
  • Professor, University of Paris, Sorbonne
  • Research topics: MHC genes, regulatory T cells, signaling pathways

• Joren C. Madsen, MD, DPhil

  • Paul S. Russell/Warner-Lambert Professor of Surgery
  • Malcolm J. Dorman, MD Chair in Cardiac Transplantation
  • Research topics: Tolerance, xenotransplantation, innate immunity, thymus transplantation, nanobiologics
• Richard N. Pierson III, MD

  • Professor of Surgery
  • W. Gerald and Patricia Austen Chair in Cardiac Surgery
  • Research Topics: Heart/lung xenotransplantation, heart/lung tolerance, costimulation blockade

• Patrick M. Reeves, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery
  • Instructor, Infectious Disease, Mass General Research Institute
  • Research Topics: Multi-omic & deep immune profiling, high-dimensional multi-modal imaging, vaccinology
• Leonardo V. Riella, MD, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Medicine & Surgery
  • Harold and Ellen Danser Endowed Chair in Transplantation
  • Research Topics: Tolerance, xenotransplantation, recurrent glomerular disease, humoral and chronic rejection

• David H. Sachs, MD

  • Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Harvard Medical School & MGH
  • Professor of Surgery and Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
  • Research Topics: Tolerance, xenotransplantation, immunogenetics
• Shimul Shah, MD, MHCM

  • Chief, Division of Transplantation
  • Clinical Director, MGH Transplant Center
  • Research Topics: Organ allocation and utilization, telehealth and remote care, machine perfusion

• Victor Tkachev

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery
  • Research topics: Bone marrow transplantation, GvHD, alloimmunity, tissue Immunopathology
• Heidi Yeh, MD

  • Associate Professor of Surgery
  • Surgical Director, MGH Pediatric Transplantation
  • Research Topics: Organ preservation and repair

CTS Staff

• Sarah Burke, Head Grants Administrator
• Theresa Vallese, Senior Grant Administrator (Thier 8 Campus)
• Laura Kupferberg, Staff Assistant III to Dr. Madsen and CTS Office Manager
• Shannon Pratts, Laboratory Manager (CNY Campus)
• Isabel Hanekamp, Laboratory Manager (Thier 8 Campus)
• Rebecca Brophy, Staff Assistant III to Dr. Sachs