A recent grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will fund a new study of advanced transplantation techniques. The study, which is being led by Children’s Hospital’s Wayne Hancock, MBBS, PhD, FRCPA, will focus on vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA), a type of transplantation in which multiple tissues — such as an entire hand — are transplanted “as a functional unit,” according to the American Society of Transplantation (AST). In particular, Dr. Hancock and his team will be working to develop “new approaches to immunosuppression,” he said.
