Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/ctr.13181 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. DR. CAROLINE WEHMEIER (Orcid ID : 0000-0002-5353-2313) Article type : Original Article Successful steroid withdrawal guided by surveillance biopsies – a single center experience Running title: Steroid withdrawal guided by surveillance biopsies Caroline Wehmeier 1 , Patricia Hirt-Minkowski 1 , Patrizia Amico 1,2 , Argyrios Georgalis 1 , Helmut Hopfer 3 , Jürg Steiger 1 , Michael Dickenmann 1 , Stefan Schaub 1,2,4 1 Clinic for Transplantation Immunology and Nephrology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2 HLA-Diagnostics and Immunogenetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland 3 Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland 4 Transplantation Immunology and Nephrology, Department of Biomedicine, University Basel, Switzerland Corresponding Author Stefan Schaub, MD, MSc Clinic for Transplantation Immunology and Nephrology University Hospital Basel Petersgraben 4 4031 Basel, Switzerland Tel: 0041 61 265 45 33 Fax: 0041 61 265 24 10 e-mail: stefan.schaub@usb.ch