About us
The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Transplant Network (PIDTRAN) was established by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) Transplant Research Subcommittee. The coordinating center for PIDTRAN is housed within the Department of Infectious Diseases at St. Jude.
- The goal of PIDTRAN is to provide a collaborative network for identifying, developing, and providing ongoing support for innovative clinical and translational research in the field of Pediatric Transplant Infectious Diseases.
Our research
PIDTRAN supports studies that focus on the rapidly changing field of Pediatric Transplant Infectious Diseases. Over 25 pediatric transplant centers across the United States have collaborated on PIDTRAN studies. In addition to institutional support, PIDTRAN receives funding from NIH and industry partners.
Our research portfolio includes studies among hematopoietic cell transplant and solid organ transplant pediatric patients examining:
- Clostridioides difficile infection
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Respiratory viral infections
- Response to vaccination among pediatric transplant recipients
- Infection prophylaxis and treatment during transplant
- The role of infectious diseases on transplant outcomes
In addition to pediatric transplant infectious diseases experts, PIDTRAN collaborates with specialists from the fields of pediatric transplantation, immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, biostatistics and more.
PIDTRAN Coordinating Center
The PIDTRAN Coordinating Center handles the overall coordination and administration of studies conducted with PIDTRAN. The PIDTRAN Coordinating Center is housed within the Department of Infectious Diseases at St. Jude.
The PIDTRAN Coordinating Center is a collaboration of the following programs at St. Jude:
The PIDTRAN Coordinating Center supports and manages the efficient development, implementation, and completion of high-quality clinical research protocols for the network by:
- Evaluating study concepts
- Facilitating protocol development, including statistical design
- Designing and managing electronic data collection forms/databases
- Serving as the central IRB for federally funded multi-site prospective protocols
- Training study teams and activating studies
- Coordinating research specimen collection, processing, and shipping
- Monitoring for safety as well as regulatory and protocol compliance
- Collecting complete and accurate clinical, laboratory, and patient-reported data
- Analyzing and sharing research results
Participating Transplant Centers
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Arkansas Children's Hospital (Little Rock, AR)
Boston Children's Hospital (Boston, MA)
Children's Health Care of Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia)
Children's Hospital at Montefiore (Bronx, NY)
Participating Transplant Centers
Children's Hospital of Colorado (Aurora, CO)
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Children's Hospital of Michigan (Detroit, MI)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
Children's Mercy Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
Participating Transplant Centers
Children's National Medical Center (Washington, DC)
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, OH)
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital (Cleveland, OH)
Cohen Children's Medical Center (Queens, NY)
Columbia University (New York, NY)
Participating Transplant Centers
Cook Children's Medical Center (Forth Worth, TX)
Duke Children’s Hospital (Durham, NC)
Johns Hopkins Children's Center (Baltimore, MD)
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital (Memphis, TN)
Levine Children's Hospital (Charlotte, NC)
Participating Transplant Centers
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto, CA)
MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Center (Houston, TX)
Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)
Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, SC)
Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt (Nashville, TN)
Participating Transplant Centers
Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, OH)
Primary Children's Hospital (Salt Lake City, UT)
Seattle Children's Hospital (Seattle, WA)
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, TN)
Stony Brook Children's (Stoney Brook, NY)
Participating Transplant Centers
Texas Children's Hospital (Houston, TX)
UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL)
University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital (Chicago, IL)
University of Florida Shand’s Children’s Hospital (Gainesville, FL)
University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)
Participating Transplant Centers
University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)
University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital(Ann Arbor, MI)
University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital (Minneapolis, MN)
University of Rochester Medical Center (Rochester, NY)
University of Nebraska Medical Center (Lincoln, NE)
Participating Transplant Centers
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (Houston, TX)
University of Texas Southwestern Children's Medical Center (Dallas, TX)
AUPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
Yale University (New Haven, CT)
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Contact us
If you would like to collaborate with PIDTRAN or have questions about ongoing or future studies, please reach out to PIDTRANCoordinators@stjude.org
