This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. 1 Safety and Efficacy of Autologous Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Transplantation in patients undergoing Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Pilot Study 1 Chetan Mudrabettu 1 , Vinod Kumar 1 , Aruna Rakha 2 , Ashok K Yadav 1 , Raja Ramachandran 1 , Deepesh B Kanwar 3 , Ritambhra Nada 4 , Mukut Minz 3 , Vinay Sakhuja 1 , Neelam Marwaha 5 , Vivekanand Jha 1,2,6 Departments of 1 Nephrology, 2 Translational and Regenerative Medicine, 3 Renal Transplant Surgery, 4 Histopathology and 5 Transfusion Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, INDIA and 6 George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, INDIA Address correspondence to : Dr Aruna Rakha, DST-INSPIRE faculty, Department of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, INDIA Email: aruna_pgi@yahoo.com 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/nep.12338 Accepted Article