Insight Into Current BK Polyomavirus Research Efforts: BK Day Meeting 2024

Affiliations

¹ Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH.
² Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH.
⁵ Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
⁶ Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine, Raritan, NJ.
⁷ Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
⁸ Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

Tiana A Walder et al. Transplantation. 2025.

. 2025 May 20.

doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005437. Online ahead of print.

¹ Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH.
² Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH.
⁵ Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
⁶ Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine, Raritan, NJ.
⁷ Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
⁸ Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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