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Breakthrough research uses nanoparticles to help body accept transplanted organs without lifelong immunosuppressive drugs

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New University of Virginia biomedical engineering professor Evan Scott is helping pioneer a new way for the body to accept transplanted organs without compromising the immune system.

Scott is the Thomas A. Saunders III Family Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished University Professor and David Goodman Family Bicentennial Professor of Nanomedicine .

He joins after 11 years at Northwestern University .

"This ability to modify how circulating monocytes respond to their environment has an immense and broad therapeutic potential for treating a variety of different disorders," Scott said.

"We specifically targeted the delivery of the drug directly to the spleen, which proved highly effective," he said.

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