Joshua Weiner, MD
Joshua I. Weiner, MD, is a board-certified transplant surgeon and clinical researcher. He has particular interests in multi-visceral transplantation and transplant immunology. Dr. Weiner performs intestinal, kidney, and pancreas transplants and investigates transplant tolerance.
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2019 Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress
2018 SPIRIT Award, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
2017 Blakemore Prize, Columbia University
2015 Second Prize in 24th Annual Columbia Surgery Research Competition
2014-2015 Highest ranked grant, Columbia Department of Surgery Startup Grant competition
2014 First Prize in 23rd Annual Columbia Surgery Research Competition
2013-2014 John Jones Fellowship, Columbia University Department of Surgery
2012-2013 Blakemore Award, New York Presbyterian-Columbia
2010 Connecticut Chapter of American College of Surgeons Prize
2010 Association for Academic Surgery-Novartis Research Award
2010 Cum laude, Yale University School of Medicine
2009 Farr Prize for Research, Yale University School of Medicine
2003 Magna cum laude, Harvard University
2000-2003 John Harvard Scholarship, Harvard University
Weiner J, Svetlicky N, Kang J, Sadat M, Khan K, Duttargi A, Stovroff M, Moturi S, Kara Balla A, Kwon DH, Kallakury B, Hawksworth J, Subramanian S, Yazigi N, Kaufman S, Pasieka HB, Matsumoto CS, Robson SC, Pavletic S, Zasloff M, Fishbein TM, Kroemer A. CD69+ resident memory T cells are associated with graft-versus-host disease in intestinal transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2020 Nov 23. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16405.Lange NW, Lee JH, Liu EC, Hedvat J, Weiner J, Sultan S. Deceased donor renal transplantation in patients on apixaban at time of transplant surgery: A case series. Clin Transplant. 2020 Nov 22;e14148. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14148.Kato T, Hwang R, Lious P, Weiner J, Griesemer A, Samstein B, Halazun K, Mathur
A, Schwartz G, Cherqui D, Emond J. Ex vivo resection and autotransplantation for
conventionally unresectable tumors – an 11-year single center experience. Ann Surg.
2020 Aug 21.Kroemer A, Khan K, Kaufman S, Kang J, Weiner J, Duttargi A, Belyayev L,
Ashokkumar C, Sindhi R, Zasloff M, Matsumoto C, Fishbein TM. Operational
tolerance in intestinal transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2020 Jul 28.Chaudhry S, Kato Y, Weiner J, Alonso-Gullart P, Baker S, Woodland DC,
Lefkowitch J, Duran-Struuck R, Sondermeijer H, Zitsman J, Sears M, Wu A,
Karolewski B, Houck P, Martinez M, Kato T, Sykes M, Griesemer. Transient mixed
chimerism with nonmyeloablative conditioning does not induce liver allograft
tolerance in nonhuman primates. Transplantation. 2020 Apr 6.Carpenter D, Matsuoka N, Thome J, Granot T, Gordon C, Kumar B, Senda T, Miron
M, Weiner J, Griesemer A, Farber DL. The immunologic profile of brain death in
humans: a whole-body analysis. Am J Transplant. 2018 Jan;18(1):74-88.Carpenter DJ, Granot T, Matsuoka N, Senda T, Kumar BV, Thome JJC, Gordon CL,
Miron M, Weiner J, Connors T, Lerner H, Friedman A, Kato T, Griesemer AD,
Farber DL. Human immunology studies using organ donors: impact of clinical
variations on immune parameters in tissues and circulation. Am J Transplant. 2018
Jan;18(1):74-88.Kato Y, Griesemer AD, Wu A, Sondermeijer HP, Weiner JI, Duran-Struuck R,
Martinez M, Slate AR, Romanov A, Lefkowitch JH, Sykes M, Kato T. Novel H-shunt
Venovenous Bypass for Liver Transplantation in Cynomolgus Macaques. Comp Med.
2017 Oct 1;67(5):436-441.Granot T, Senda T, Carpenter DJ, Matsuoka N, Weiner J, Gordon CL, Miron M,
Kumar BV, Griesemer A, Ho SH, Lerner H, Thome JJ, Connors T, Reizis B, Farber
DL. Dendritic Cells Display Subset and Tissue-Specific Maturation Dynamics over
Human Life. Immunity. 2017 Mar 21;46(3):504-515.Gordon CL, Miron M, Thome JJ, Matsuoka N, Weiner J, Rak MA, Iharashi S,
Granot T, Lerner H, Goodrum F, Farber DL. Tissue-reservoirs of anti-viral T cell
immunity in persistent human CMV infection. J Exp Med. 2017 Jan 27;214(3).Weiner J, Zuber J, Shonts B, Yang S, Fu J, Martinez M, Farber D, Kato T, Sykes M.
Long-term persistence of innate lymphoid cells in the gut after intestinal
transplantation. Transplantation. 2016 Dec 8.Zuber J, Shonts B, Lau S-P, Obradovic A, Fu J, Yang S, Lambert M, Coley S,
Weiner J, Thome J, DeWolf S, Farber DL, Shen Y, Caillat-Zucman S, Bhagat G,
Griesemer A, Martinez M, Kato T, Sykes M. Bidirectional intragraft alloreactivity
drives the repopulation of human intestinal allografts and correlates with clinical
outcome. Science Immunology. 07 Oct, 2016: Vol. 1., Issue 4.