[Text on screen: The Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center
Ken Washburn, MD
Executive Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center Division Director, Transplant Surgery]

Speaker Ken Washburn, MD: We have three thematic areas of research that currently exist and are developing actively. One is our immunology program, for which we have an active component and we're integrating that with a number of other areas within the Medical Center and with outside the Medical Center. 

The other is our surgical outcomes area, which is being interfaced with the Department of Surgery, as well, to look at health services research and transplant outcomes in big data sets. 

And thirdly, we have a organ rehabilitation laboratory, that is a basic science and a translational lab, where we have the ex vivo lung perfusion machine. We also have a significant component of rehabilitation, on the molecular side, for liver biology. 

Those three areas are thematic areas that we are actively developing in a number of different ways. We have relationships with many different areas within the medical school and the university, and that's one of the great things about being at Ohio State, not just in the Medical Center, but Ohio State in general.

The Medical Center resides on the main campus, so we have interplay with the School of Engineering, with the business school, the vet school. So those opportunities are already being actualized in a number of projects that we have going on that may interface with one of our thematic areas But if there's an interest that somebody has, being here on the Ohio State campus provides great opportunities to really try to actualize on those interests.

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[Text on screen: The Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center]