Meeting report: The first international conference on xenotransplantation in Chengdu, China.

Andrew B. Adams, Nozomu Shirasugi, Thomas R. Jones, Megan M. Durham, Elizabeth A. Strobert, Shannon Cowan, Phyllis Rees, Rose Hendrix, Karen Price, Norma S. Kenyon, David Hagerty, Robert Townsend, Dianne Hollenbaugh, Thomas C. Pearson, Christian P. Larsen, Development of a Chimeric Anti-CD40 Monoclonal Antibody That Synergizes with LEA29Y to Prolong Islet Allograft Survival The Journal of Immunology. ,vol. 174, pp. 542- 550 ,(2005) , 10.4049/JIMMUNOL.174.1.542

Henk-Jan Schuurman, Regulatory aspects of clinical xenotransplantation International Journal of Surgery. ,vol. 23, pp. 312- 321 ,(2015) , 10.1016/J.IJSU.2015.09.051

Rita Bottino, Massimo Trucco, Clinical implementation of islet transplantation: A current assessment. Pediatric Diabetes. ,vol. 16, pp. 393- 401 ,(2015) , 10.1111/PEDI.12287

Francois Lazeyras, Leo Buhler, Jean-Paul Vallee, Martin Hergt, Antonio Nastasi, Raphael Ruttimann, Philippe Morel, Jean-Bernard Buchs, Detection of ATP by "in line" 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy during oxygenated hypothermic pulsatile perfusion of pigs' kidneys. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and Medicine. ,vol. 25, pp. 391- 399 ,(2012) , 10.1007/S10334-012-0319-6

D. J. van der Windt, R. Bottino, A. Casu, N. Campanile, C. Smetanka, J. He, N. Murase, H. Hara, S. Ball, B. E Loveland, D. Ayares, F. G. Lakkis, D. K. C. Cooper, M. Trucco, Long-term controlled normoglycemia in diabetic non-human primates after transplantation with hCD46 transgenic porcine islets. American Journal of Transplantation. ,vol. 9, pp. 2716- 2726 ,(2009) , 10.1111/J.1600-6143.2009.02850.X

Hideo Nagata, Ryuta Nishitai, Chiyoe Shirota, Jia-Lin Zhang, Cody A. Koch, Jin Cai, Michel Awwad, Henk-Jan Schuurman, Uwe Christians, Michio Abe, Janina Baranowska–Kortylewicz, Jeffrey L. Platt, Ira J. Fox, Prolonged Survival of Porcine Hepatocytes in Cynomolgus Monkeys Gastroenterology. ,vol. 132, pp. 321- 329 ,(2007) , 10.1053/J.GASTRO.2006.10.013

Jean-Bernard Buchs, Leo Buehler, Solange Moll, Raphael Ruttimann, Antonio Nastasi, Jeffrey Kasten, Philippe Morel, François Lazeyras, DCD pigs' kidneys analyzed by MRI to assess ex vivo their viability. Transplantation. ,vol. 97, pp. 148- 153 ,(2014) , 10.1097/01.TP.0000438023.02751.22

Ivo Tzvetanov, Lorena Bejarano-Pineda, Pier C. Giulianotti, Hoonbae Jeon, Raquel Garcia-Roca, Francesco Bianco, José Oberholzer, Enrico Benedetti, State of the Art of Robotic Surgery in Organ Transplantation World Journal of Surgery. ,vol. 37, pp. 2791- 2799 ,(2013) , 10.1007/S00268-013-2244-X

Jie Mei, Antonino Sgroi, Gang Mai, Reto Baertschiger, Carmen Gonelle-Gispert, Véronique Serre-Beinier, Philippe Morel, Leo H. Bühler, Improved survival of fulminant liver failure by transplantation of microencapsulated cryopreserved porcine hepatocytes in mice Cell Transplantation. ,vol. 18, pp. 101- 110 ,(2009) , 10.3727/096368909788237168

A. Tena, J. Kurtz, D. A. Leonard, J. R. Dobrinsky, S. L. Terlouw, N. Mtango, J. Verstegen, S. Germana, C. Mallard, J. S. Arn, D. H. Sachs, R. J. Hawley, Transgenic Expression of Human CD47 Markedly Increases Engraftment in a Murine Model of Pig‐to‐Human Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation American Journal of Transplantation. ,vol. 14, pp. 2713- 2722 ,(2014) , 10.1111/AJT.12918