The CIT Consortium was created by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Two NIH Institutes — the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — sponsor the consortium.

The consortium consists of the following principal investigators and centers:

• Dr. Bernhard Hering
  University of Minnesota
  Minneapolis, Minnesota



• Dr. Dixon Kaufman
  The University of Wisconsin
  Madison Wisconsin



• Dr. Olle Korsgren
  Uppsala University
  Uppsala, Sweden



• Dr. Xunrong Luo
  Northwestern University
  Chicago, Illinois



• Dr. James Markmann
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Boston, Massachusetts



• Dr. Ali Naji
  University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



• Dr. Jose Oberholzer
  University of Illinois at Chicago
  Chicago, Illinois



• Dr. Andrew Posselt
  University of California
  San Francisco, California



• Dr. Camillo Ricordi
  University of Miami
  Miami, Florida



• Dr. James Shapiro
  University of Alberta
  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada



• Dr. Nicole Turgeon
  Emory University
  Atlanta, Georgia

The Clinical Trials Statistical & Data Management Center's (CTSDMC) purpose is to coordinate the statistical and data management functions for the CIT Consortium. The center is a unit within the Department of Biostatistics in the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa. The project director for CTSDMC studies is:

• Ms. Julie Qidwai
  University of Iowa
  Iowa City, Iowa

General information about studies being developed by CIT researchers is available on this website under The CITC Studies.