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Ira J. Fox, MD

Job Title Director, Center for Innovative Regenerative Therapies, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Job Title Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute

4401 Penn Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

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Active Research Projects

Education and Training

Medical School:	1976 Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
Residency:	1979 Department of Surgery, University of Calilfornia Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 1983 Senior/Chief Resident, Deaconess-Harvard Surgical Service, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA
Fellowship:	1981 Immunology Research, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 1985 Transplant, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

Memberships

Metropolitan Omaha Medical Society
New York Surgical Society
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Society of University Surgeons
Surgical Research Society of Australasia, Honorary Membership
Transplantation Society, Local Organizing Committee-VI International
Small Bowel Transplant Symposium
Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand
Cell Transplant Society
American Surgical Association
The Henry Kunkel Society
International Society for Stem Cell Research

Board Certifications

National Board of Medical Examiners
American Board of surgery
American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care

Awards

Outstanding Investigator Award, University of Nebraska COM
Dr. Allen O. Whipple Memorial Price (Surgery), Columbia University

Publications

Ito M, Nagata H, Yamamoto T, Yoshihara D, Fox IJ, Miyakawa S. Intrasplenic hepatocyte transplantation prolonged the survival of Nagase analbuminemic rats with liver failure induced by common bile duct ligation. Cell Transplantation 2007, 16; 547-553.
Kawashita Y. Roy-Chowdhury N, Moitra R, Wang X, Fox IJ, Guha C, Roy-Chowdhury J. Hepatic repopulation with stably transduced conditionally immortalized hepatocytes in the Gunn rat model of Crigler-Najjar syndrome type I. (Submitted J Hepatology).
Ita M, Ito R, Yoshihara D, Ikeno M, Kamya M, Suzuki N, Horiguchi A, Nagata H, Yamamoto T, Kobayashi N, Fox IJ, Okazaki T, Miyakawa S. Immortalized hepatocytes using a human artificial chromosome. (Submitted Cell Transplantation).

View Dr. Fox's full list of publications from PubMed.