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2023

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23)
  April 28, 2023

2022

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22)
  May 16, 2022

Research Highlights:

• Researching New Ways to Block Inflammation and Prevent Severe Tissue Damage Following Transplantation
October 12, 2022
• Regaining independence after the world’s first successful combination face and double hand transplant
August 12, 2022

News:

• Personalizing treatment for severe limb injuries (external link)
  Mizzou, January 27, 2022

2021

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21)
  July 21, 2021

Research Highlights:

• Mapping the Inflammatory Response to Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
December 17, 2021

• Transfer of Donor Lymph Nodes to Promote Graft Tolerance
August 31, 2021

News:

• Department of Defense helps fund 1st successful face, double hand transplant (external link)
  WTOP News, February 11, 2021

2020

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20)
  September 21, 2020

Research Highlights:

• Engineered Microparticles for Promoting Transplant Tolerance: Taking a Page Out of Cancer’s Playbook
• Increasing Organ Donor Authorization for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
• Improving and Quantifying Functional Hand Use in Hand Transplant Recipients and Amputees

2019

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19)
  August 1, 2019
• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19)
  May 2, 2019

Research Highlights

• CDMRP-funded Physician Performs Historic Face Transplant Surgery
• Project Update: Biomarkers to Predict Rejection in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation: MMP3
• Reconstructive Transplant Research Program (RTRP) Request for Information (RFI)

News:

• He’s the First African American to Receive a Face Transplant. His Story Could Change Health Care (external link)
  TIME, October 28, 2019

2018

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18)
  May 31, 2018

Research Highlights:

• Developing Therapeutic Reagents to Accelerate the Rate of Peripheral Nerve Growth after Reconstructive Transplantation
• Improving Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation via Histone Deacetylase Modulation
• T-Regulatory Cell-Based Therapies Promote Survival of Vascularized Composite Allografts
• Biomarkers to Predict Rejection in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation

2017

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplantation Research Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2017
  May 15, 2017

Research Highlights:

• Utilizing Vascularized Bone to Improve Outcomes of Face Transplantation

2016

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplantation Research Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2016
  July 19, 2016

2015

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Reconstructive Transplantation Research Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2015
  June 18, 2015

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