Renowned Scripps Research scientist Dan Salomon dead at 63

THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE | Gray Robbins

Daniel Salomon's research improved people's chances of experiencing a successful organ transplant. (TSRI)

Dr. Salomon, who lived in Carmel Valley, battled cancer for much of the past two years. But he remained active in his research endeavors and continued to make important advancements.

In March, for example, Dr. Salomon published a paper that pointed to potential ways of spotting organ rejection — a person’s immune system attacking transplanted tissue — when there’s still enough time to do something about it.

Despite improvements in organ transplant medicine in recent decades, about half of all kidney-transplant patients still lose their organ to rejection within 10 years.

Dr. Salomon and his colleagues discovered that genetic profiling of kidney biopsies may be a key to catching organ rejection before it’s too late. They showed that acute and chronic kidney rejection, once thought to be separate diseases, are actually different parts of the same immune-system rejection process. Continue reading

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