Dr. Kupiec-Weglinski is the Director of Dumont-UCLA Transplant Research Laboratories in Los Angeles, CA. He is Professor of Surgery, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, as well as Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery (Basic Research), at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He holds the Joan S. and Ralph N. Goldwyn Endowed Chair in Immunobiology/Transplantation Research.Dr. Kupiec-Weglinski's recent studies focus on the toll-like receptor (TLR) system and provide insights into the role of innate -adaptive immunity crosstalk in organ transplant recipients.