Awards - Current Recipients - Research Fellowship

ISHLT GRANTS AND AWARDS PROGRAM
2011 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
Supported by funding from Astellas:

Alejandro Bribriesco, MD

Director of Research: Daniel Kreisel, MD
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Project Title: "The Role of CD8+ Regulatory T. Cells in Lung Allograft Acceptance"
Supported by funding from XDx:

Alexey Dashkevich, MD

University Freiburg
Frieburg, GERMANY

Director of Research: Karl Lemstrom, MD, PhD, Helsinki University, Helsinki, FINLAND

Project Title: "Molecular and Gene Therapy for Heart Transplantation: Targeting of Lymph Angiogenesis as a New Immunomodulatory Approach"

(pictured at right: Jussi Tikkanen accepting award on behalf of Alexey Dashkevich)
Patricia E. de Almeida, DVM, MS, PhD

Director of Research: Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

Project Title: "Patient Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Modeling Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy"
Tiago Machuca, MD, PhD

Director of Research: Shaf Keshavjee, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA

Project Title: "Combining Anti-inflammatory and Pro-Tolerogenic Ex Vivo Treatment Using Interleukin-10 in a Pre-Clinical Model of Lung Transplantation"


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