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The University of Kansas Hospital is a 575-bed academic medical center that specializes in heart disease, cancer treatment and prevention, neurology, kidney disease, urology, liver and kidney transplantation, and pain management.

The study emphasized the need for kidney transplantation is increasing while donor rates remain stable, leading to longer waiting times and increased rates of death on the waiting list.

He reveals that he donated his kidney to someone with the help of Arumugam so as to keep the money for his wife's kidney transplantation.

Nawal Basri, a consultant responsible for kidney-transplantation at the King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah and a member of the National Kidney Transplantation Committee, said that many people became interested in donating their kidneys after the Ministry of Health announced its SR50,000 incentive.

Patients undergoing kidney transplantation were immunosuppressed post-transplant and their immunosuppressed state was maintained with a combination of tacrolimus (Prograf) and low-dose steroids.

Dr Rob Higgins (right), consultant kidney specialist at the University Hospital, Walsgrave, is internationally renowned as an expert in kidney transplantation.

UCSD researchers and physicians are available to speak on the role of biomedical research in such timely areas as: * Gene therapy * Heart, lung, and kidney transplantation * Cancer drug therapy * Stem cell research * Eye disease * Childhood/adolescent depression * AIDS and the immune system * The brain's role in memory and learning * Drug and alcohol addiction Other topics include: research animals and their care, careers in science and medicine, and how animal research continues to contribute to advancements in burn therapy, reproductive medicine, psychiatric disorders, diabetes, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, and veterinary medicine.

Byline: FRANK HURLEY A SURGEON who pioneered kidney transplantation in the UK was hailed yesterday as one of the greatest surgeons of his age.