Specialty	Renal Transplantation
Subspecialty	Nephrology
Clinical Interests	Nephrology
	Kidney Transplant
	Pancreas Transplant
Languages	English
	German
Gender	Male
E-mail	bernd.schroppel@mssm.edu
	bernd.schroppel@mountsinai.org
Education and Training	MD, Universitat Zu Ulm
	Residency, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	Fellowship, Medicine-Nephrology, Mount Sinai Hospital
Awards	2007 Louis R. Wasserman Medical Scholar Career Development Award
	2007 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08) National Institute of Health
	2005 American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) Vanguard Prize
	2005 Norman S. Coplon Grant, Satellite Research Award
	1998 ''Jan Brod'' research award University of Hannover, Germany
	1997 Fresenius medical thesis research award University of Ulm, Germany

Dr. Schroppel has recently been appointed the Medical Directory of Transplant Nephrology.

Curriculum Vitae: Curriculum Vitae

Education and Training	MD, Universitat Zu Ulm
	Residency, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	Fellowship, Medicine-Nephrology, Mount Sinai Hospital
Board Certification	Nephrology

Specialty	Renal Transplantation
Subspecialty	Nephrology
Clinical Interests	Nephrology
	Kidney Transplant
	Pancreas Transplant
Languages	English
	German
Board Certification	Nephrology

The role of donor-derived chemokines in islet transplantation

A major challenge of pancreatic islet transplantation is the protection of the already putatively marginal islet cell mass. Our data demonstrate that islets have the capacity to behave in a similar manner to cells of the immune system, recruiting leukocytes from the blood stream. The hypothesis is that islet-derived mediators directly or indirectly affect islet engraftment, function and viability, and serve to further amplify the adaptive immune response. The goals are to characterize the innate immune response to specific stimuli in islet transplantation and to identify therapeutic strategies to improve islet transplant engraftment and survival.

Genetic studies in Transplantation

Despite a marked improvement in renal transplant rejection rates over the last decade, the improvement in long-term allograft survival remains modest. Recent advances from the Human Genome Project have identified numerous regions of genetic variability, both single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP's) and microsatellites regions, within genes relevant to transplantation. Delayed graft function (DGF) is a form of acute renal failure resulting in post-transplantation oliguria, increased allograft immunogenicity and decreased long-term survival. Our ongoing research is based on the following two hypothesis: (1) The susceptibility to DGF is modified by inherited genetic polymorphisms that alter the level of response in genes that are known to modify the response to tissue injury; (2) Distinct gene expression patterns can be identified in the transplanted allograft that can predict DGF and that can reliably discriminate complex mechanisms of DGF.

Fischereder M, Schroppel B. The role of chemokines in acute renal allograft rejection and chronic allograft nephropathy. Frontiers in Bioscience;-in press.

Zang W, Lin M, Kalache S, Zhang N, Kruger B, Waaga-Gasser AM, Grimm M, Hancock W, Heeger P, Schroppel B, Murphy B. Inhibition of the Alloimmune Response Through the Generation of Regulatory T Cells by a MHC Class II-Derived Peptide. J Immunol 2008; 181: 7499-7506.

Akalin E, Dinavahi R, Friedlander R, Ames S, de Boccardo G, Schroppel B, Bhaskaran M, Lerner S, Fotino M, Murphy B, Bromberg JS. The addition of plasmapheresis decreases the incidence of acute antibody-mediated rejection in sensitized patients with strong donor-specific antibodies. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2008; 3(4): 1160-1167.

Akalin E, Dinavahi R, Dikman S, de Boccardo G, Friedlander R, Schroppel B, Sehgal V, Bromberg JB, Heeger P, Murphy B. Transplant glomerulopathy may occur in the absence of donor-specific antibody and C4d staining. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2007; 2(6): 1261-1267.

Ommen ES, Schroppel B, Kim JY, Gaspard G, Akalin E, de Boccardo G, Sehgal V, Lipkowitz M, Murphy B. Routine use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in potential living kidney donors. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2007; 2(5): 1030-1036.

Chen D, Zhang N, Fu S, Schroppel B, Guo Q, Xu J, Garin E, Lira SA, Bromberg JS. CD4+CD25+ T regulatory cells inhibit the islet innate immune response and promote islet engraftment. Diabetes 2006; 55: 1011-1021.

Zang W, Kalache S, Lin M, Schroppel B, Murphy B. MHC class II mediated apoptosis by a non-polymorphic MHC class II peptide proceeds by activation of proteinase C. Am Soc Nephrol 2005; 16(12): 3661-6668.

Schroppel B, Zhang N, Chen P, Chen D, Bromberg JS, Murphy B. Role of donor-derived monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in murine islet transplantation. J Am Soc Nephrol 2005 Feb; 16(2): 444-551.