Hard graft? Future challenges in transplantation.

A small group of transplantation surgeons, immunologists and molecular biologists gathered in Vienna in early February to discuss the prospects for organ transplantation. Participants at the meeting were challenged with setting goals for transplantation research and with speculating on how this research might influence the practice of transplantation in the next two decades. Some goals were set, but the most vigorous discussion focused on the existing barriers that stand in the way of achieving these goals.