Coffee & Compatibility

Pediatric transplant champions Melissa McQueen and Jennifer Lau share their experiences as transplant recipient caregivers and weigh in on needed improvements to the national system.

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Dr. Anthony Atala, a father of regenerative medicine and featured speaker at the upcoming 52nd ASHI Annual Meeting, joins Coffee & Compatibility to talk about the present and future of ex vivo organ generation for transplantation.

Listen in as Coffee & Compatibility welcomes Dr. Giuliano Testa, TIME Magazine Top 100 honoree and leader of the first uterus transplant medical team in the United States. Dr. Testa shares the progress of uterus transplantation, the emotional stories of the subsequent live births made possible by this groundbreaking technology, and the immunological insights this fascinating area of transplantation could uncover.

Join us on Coffee & Compatibility as Dr. Medhat Askar discusses the urgent need to investigate the role of HLA in cell therapy and how laboratories can support this rapidly growing treatment strategy. The conversation also highlights ongoing global efforts to advance transplantation and cell therapy initiatives.Learn more about The Transplantation Society’s activities during the World Health Assembly here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/medhataskar_the-transplantation-society-advances-the-activity-7464104308314173440-J-Kn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABF2FhwB2SQa9yztxvbubR246ItZX1ub52kCoffee & Compatibility is the official podcast of ASHI, featuring discussions on current topics, expert insights, and emerging trends in transplantation, histocompatibility, and immunogenetics.#CoffeeAndCompatibility #ASHIHLA #CellTherapy #HLA #Transplantation #Immunogenetics #Histocompatibility #TransplantImmunology #StemCellTherapy #LaboratoryMedicine #HealthcareEducation #MedicalPodcast #HLAResearch #CellularTherapy #TransplantScience

Part 2 of our series honoring early HLA pioneers! Wendy Leong joins the podcast as we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Rose Payne.

Dr. Alberto Cardoso Martins Lima shares how advances in therapeutics are changing the way we think about HSCT donor selection.AFDT LINK: https://amfdt.swoogo.com/histocompatability2026/home

Mr. Ricardo Ordonez honors the legacy of Dr. Paul Terasaki in this special episode of Coffee & Compatibility#PaulTerasaki #RicardoOrdonez #CoffeeAndCompatibility #HLA #Transplantation #Histocompatibility #Immunogenetics #TransplantScience #Legacy #MedicalPodcast #OrganTransplant #HealthcareHeroes #SciencePodcast #Immunology

Dr. Michael Cooper, Chief of Transplantation at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Chair of the Board of Directors for Donate Life America, shares his perspective on recent media coverage, its impact on the organ donor registry, and what the media is missing about organ transplantation.

Join Coffee & Compatibility’s special guest, Dr. Jackie O’Leary, to learn about the implications of anti-HLA allosensitization in liver graft injury and how HLA laboratories could be playing a larger role.

This week, OPO CEO Kevin Myer, provides Coffee & Compatibility an update on “Project Matador” and on the utilization of drone technology in transplant allocation logistics for organs and samples.