Transplantation Direct: The Official Journal of the International Society of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation

In December 2024, the council of the International Society for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (ISVCA), a section of the Transplantation Society (TTS), designated Transplantation Direct as the official journal of the Society. The journal was launched in 2015 as the sister open-access journal of Transplantation, with the ancillary objective of hosting TTS sections.

Transplantation Direct represents the optimal platform for ISVCA due to its strong relationship with TTS and its partnership with the journal Transplantation, which features an effective quality peer-review process.1 It addresses both the scientific integrity and reaches the community that ISVCA envisions. The partnership between ISVCA and Transplantation Direct is an important opportunity to strengthen communication in VCA with the wider transplant community, fostering talent, research, and broader-scale activities in the field of VCA.