Ginny Bumgardner

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Office Information

N950 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH, 43210
Office Phone: (614) 293-6177

Lab Information

226 Wiseman Hall
Columbus, OH, 43210

Area of Expertise

Liver and pancreatic islet cell immunobiology

Interest and Subspecialty

Transplant Surgery and Immunobiology

Dr. Bumgardner received her BS degree from the College of William and Mary (1979), her MD from the University of Virginia (1983), and PhD from the University of Minnesota (1992). She completed an internship and residency in General Surgery at the University of Minnesota (1991). She has also completed fellowships in the areas of surgical infectious disease and endoscopy at the University of Minnesota and in transplantation at the University of California San Francisco (1991-1993). Following completion of her Transplant Fellowship, she was appointed as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Ohio State University in 1993 and was promoted to Professor of Surgery in October 2005.

Dr. Bumgardner studies the immunobiology of cell transplantation using rodent models of liver cell and pancreatic islet transplantation. A particular focus of these studies is the role of the parenchymal cell in initiation of specific innate and adaptive immune responses.

Recent Publications

Lunsford KE, Koester MA, Eiring AM, Gao D, Horne PH, and Bumgardner GL. Targeting LFA-1 and CD154 suppresses the in vivo activation and cytolytic development of (CD4-independent) CD8+ T cells. J Immunol 2005,In Press.

Bumgardner GL. Evidence for multiple allograft rejection mechanisms within the same experimental system. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation 10:20-27, 2005.

Walker J and Bumgardner GL. Hepatocyte transplantation: Current status and future potential. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation10: 67-76 2005.

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