She received her PhD and MD from Duke University, respectively, in 1995 and 1998. She completed her clinical medicine residency and transplant nephrology fellowship training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Medical College in New York in 2005. Luo’s research has focused on the tolerance strategies for allogeneic and xenogeneic islet cell transplantation. Current research focuses on developing strategies for donor-specific tolerance induction and elucidating mechanisms of tolerance in murine models of allogeneic and xenogeneic islet cell transplantation. Comments