Dr. Aimen F Shaaban MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Shaaban served as an associate professor of surgery with tenure and as director of the Laboratory for Fetal Cellular Therapy at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine from 2008-2012. Pr ...
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SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Multicistronic lentiviral vectors containing the FMDV 2A cleavage factor demonstrate robust expression of encoded genes at limiting MOI.
- Process engineering design of pathological waste incinerator with an integrated combustion gases treatment unit.
- Differential requirements for hematopoietic commitment between human and rhesus embryonic stem cells.
- Thoracoscopic aortopexy for primary tracheomalacia in a 12-year-old.
- Donor major histocompatibility complex class I expression determines the outcome of prenatal transplantation.
- Recent advances and controversies in pediatric laparoscopic surgery.
- Early chimerism threshold predicts sustained engraftment and NK-cell tolerance in prenatal allogeneic chimeras.
- Early laparoscopic fundoplication and gastrostomy in infants with spinal muscular
- KIR receptor-ligand incompatibility predicts killing of osteosarcoma cell lines by allogeneic NK cells.
- Regulation of the earliest immune response to in utero hematopoietic cellular transplantation.
- Trogocytosis as a mechanistic link between chimerism and prenatal tolerance.
- Immunosuppressive CD71+ erythroid cells compromise neonatal host defence against infection.
- Expanded intrathoracic space in fetal cases of isolated congenital diaphragmatic
- NK cell tolerance as the final endorsement of prenatal tolerance after in utero hematopoietic cellular transplantation.
- Differential patterns of prenatal ipsilateral and contralateral lung growth in cases of isolated left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Fellowships
- Post-doctoral Fellowship in Fetal Surgery Research : Children's Institute for Surgical Science, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - . 1996
- Children's of Philadelphia-Pediatric Surg, Philadelphia, PA 2002
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