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Current Liver Transplant Clinical Trials

For more information about clinical trials at the Penn Transplant Center, read our answers to frequently asked questions.

Studies Open for Enrollment

Molecular profiling and donor and recipient pro-inflammatory and alloimmune response

Principal Investigator: Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health

Tissue and serum bank

Principal Investigator: Kim Olthoff, MD

Gene expression and regenerative pathways in donor livers

Principal Investigator: Kim Olthoff, MD
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health

Campath-1H and Tacrolimus followed by Immunosuppression Withdrawal in Liver Transplantation

Principal Investigator: Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD
Sponsored by ITN

A phase II trial to assess the safety of immunosuppression withdrawal in liver transplant recipients with hepatitis c

Principal Investigator: Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD
Sponsored by ITN

Validation of serum markers for the early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (DCP)

Principal Investigator: K. Rajender Reddy, MD
NCI sponsored

A to ALL: Adult to adult living donor liver transplant cohort study

Principal Investigator: Abraham Shaked, MD, PhD
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health

Clinical, immunologic, pharmacologic consequences of liver transplantation in people with HIV infection

Principal Investigator: Kim Olthoff, MD
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health

Comparative evaluation of inhibitor treatments in liver allograft recipients

Principal Investigator: K. Rajender Reddy, MD

Comparative safety and efficacy study of prophylactic Interferon following liver transplantation for Hepatitis C

Principal Investigator: K. Rajender Reddy, MD
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health

Safety and efficacy study of N-acetylcysteine in the treatment of acute liver failure not caused by acetaminophen in adult patients

Principal Investigator: K. Rajender Reddy, MD
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health

An observational database of patients who receive orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) for Hepatitis B

Principal Investigator: K. Rajender Reddy, MD

Studies Closed to Enrollment -- Performed Over the Last Year

Comparison of HepeX-BTM, a mixture of two monoclonal antibodies, to Hepatitis B immune globulin in patients who have received hepatic allografts for treatment of end-stage liver disease due to Hepatitis B virus infection

Principal Investigator: K. Rajender Reddy, MD

Intravenous Terlipressin in patients with hepatorenal syndrome type I

Principal Investigator: K. Rajender Reddy, MD

 


 

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