Nephrology

Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Professer of Immunology
Professor of Pathology
Professor in Surgery
Campus mail 2 Genome Court, Durham, NC 27710
Email address xunrong.luo@duke.edu

Education and Training

  • General Nephrology Fellowship, Weill Cornell Medical College, 2001 - 2003
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1998 - 2001
  • M.D., Duke University School of Medicine, 1998
  • Ph.D., Duke University, 1995

Grants

Publications

Singh, Amar, Sabarinathan Ramachandran, Melanie L. Graham, Saeed Daneshmandi, David Heller, Wilma Lucia Suarez-Pinzon, Appakalai N. Balamurugan, et al. “Long-term tolerance of islet allografts in nonhuman primates induced by apoptotic donor leukocytes..” Nat Commun 10, no. 1 (August 2, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11338-y.

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31375697
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Shah, Sahil, Saeed Daneshmandi, Kevin R. Hughes, Shuangjin Yu, Angela M. Bedoya, Lonnie D. Shea, and Xunrong Luo. “Optimizing PLG nanoparticle-peptide delivery platforms for transplantation tolerance using an allogeneic skin transplant model..” Biomaterials 210 (July 2019): 70–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.04.030.

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31077862
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Samy, Kannan P., Qimeng Gao, Robert Patrick Davis, Mingqing Song, Zachary W. Fitch, Michael S. Mulvihill, Andrea L. MacDonald, et al. “The role of human CD46 in early xenoislet engraftment in a dual transplant model..” Xenotransplantation, June 20, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/xen.12540.

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31219218
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Dangi, Anil, Shuangjin Yu, and Xunrong Luo. “Emerging approaches and technologies in transplantation: the potential game changers..” Cell Mol Immunol 16, no. 4 (April 2019): 334–42. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-019-0207-3.

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30760918
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Zhang, Lei, Matthew DeBerge, Jiaojin Wang, Anil Dangi, Xiaomin Zhang, Samantha Schroth, Zheng Zhang, Edward B. Thorp, and Xunrong Luo. “Receptor tyrosine kinase MerTK suppresses an allogenic type I IFN response to promote transplant tolerance..” Am J Transplant 19, no. 3 (March 2019): 674–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.15087.

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30133807
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Burke, J. A., Y. Zhu, X. Zhang, J. Post, D. Kaufman, X. Luo, and G. A. Ameer. “Phase-changing antioxidant scaffold shows promise for omentum islet transplantation: A non-human primate case study.” In Transactions of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Biomaterials and the Annual International Biomaterials Symposium, Vol. 40, 2019.

Scholars@Duke

Glinton, Kristofor, Matthew DeBerge, Xin-Yi Yeap, Jenny Zhang, Joseph Forbess, Xunrong Luo, and Edward B. Thorp. “Acute and chronic phagocyte determinants of cardiac allograft vasculopathy..” Semin Immunopathol 40, no. 6 (November 2018): 593–603. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00281-018-0699-4.

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30141073
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Dangi, Anil, Lei Zhang, Xiaomin Zhang, and Xunrong Luo. “Murine CMV induces type 1 IFN that impairs differentiation of MDSCs critical for transplantation tolerance..” Blood Adv 2, no. 6 (March 27, 2018): 669–80. https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2017012187.

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29563123
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