Lin Tao

Lin Tao

Deputy Director of Organ Transplant Center, Director of Kidney Transplant Center, Deputy Director of Urology Department, Chief Physician, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Academic Leader

Organ Transplant
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-Research areas : living donor kidney transplantation, robotic minimally invasive kidney transplantation, clinical and basic research on kidney transplantation; with a focus on the rejection and adaptation mechanisms of ABO incompatible kidney transplantation and transplant immune tolerance.

- Cutting-edge technologies: Transvaginal robotic kidney transplantation, minimally invasive laparoscopic kidney harvesting for living-related kidney transplantation; handling of complex blood vessels in kidney transplantation; individualized pre-treatment protocols for ABO incompatible kidney transplantation (first proposed globally); robot-assisted kidney transplantation (first in China).

- Areas of expertise: various end-stage renal diseases, uremia, complex vascular conditional recipients, blood type incompatible kidney transplantation, end-stage renal disease kidney transplantation, ABO blood type incompatible kidney transplantation, and kidney transplantation of highly sensitized recipients.

- Academic Highlights: Standing Committee Member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; Deputy Head of the Kidney Transplantation Group of the Urology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; Deputy Head of the Kidney Transplantation Group of the Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; Chairman of the Organ Transplantation Committee of Sichuan Province; President-elect of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Sichuan Medical Doctor Association; Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province; Overseas High-level Talent; Led the development of domestic guidelines for living donor kidney transplantation; Presided over one key research and development project of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Presided over multiple national-level projects; funded 8 National Natural Science Foundation of China projects; Published over 70 SCI papers (including Nature Communications and Kidney International); Authored the "Clinical Guidelines for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation" and the "Technical Specifications for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation"; Received 2 provincial-level science and technology progress awards. Core Value: Constructing a standardized system for domestic living donor kidney transplantation and blood type incompatible transplantation.