Adil Bhat, PhD

Adil Bhat earned his PhD from the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi, India, where he studied impaired liver regeneration and fibrosis progression in living donor liver transplant (LDLT) patients. He joined the Reed Lab as a postdoctoral scholar in October 2020, focusing on the biological interactions post-liver transplantation reperfusion damage. He is working on the project "Innate and Adaptive Immune Mechanisms of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (IRI) in Transplantation." This research aims to identify damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), cofactors, and pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) responsible for myeloid cell plasticity and alloreactivity post-transplantation. By understanding DAMP/PRR signaling effects on immune responses, this work aspires to develop new treatments to improve liver transplant outcomes.