Humar, Abhinav
Hadjiyannis, Yannis https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6723-4299
Macedo, Camila
Tran, Lillian M.
Elinoff, Beth D.
Hughes, Christopher B.
Ganesh, Swaytha R.
Zahorchak, Alan F.
Ables, Erin M. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8617-6768
Styn, Mindi A.
Landsittel, Douglas
Zeevi, Adriana
Lakkis, Fadi G.
Metes, Diana M.
Thomson, Angus W. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6731-8871
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (U19 AI131453)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (U01 681 AI136779)
Pitt | Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh (88906)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI089443)
Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI74490)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Article History
Received: 4 November 2025
Accepted: 13 March 2026
First Online: 17 April 2026
Competing interests
: A.H., F.G.L., D.M.M., and A.W.T. are co-inventors of University of Pittsburgh invention disclosures that concern protocols for clinical testing of regulatory DCs in human organ transplantation. A.F.Z., F.G.L., and A.W.T. are co-inventors of University of Pittsburgh invention disclosures and a provisional patent application for generation of human regulatory DCs for application in human organ transplantation. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.