2007 ISHLT GRANT AND AWARD RECIPIENTS

$40,000 ISHLT/Roche Research Fellowship Award
Satish N. Nadig, MD
Beth-Israel Deaconess Med Ctr, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
"The Impact of Regulatory T cells on Transplant Arteriosclerosis in the Humanized Mouse Model"

$40,000 ISHLT/Novartis Research Fellowship Award
Timothy M. Millington, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Expanding Primate Tregs Ex-Vivo to Facilitate Tolerance in Vivo"

$40,000 ISHLT/TransMedics Research Fellowship Award
Howard J. Huang, MD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
"The Role of MyD88-Dependent Inflammatory Signaling in a Novel Mouse Model of Orthotopic Lung Transplantation"

$40,000 ISHLT/XDx Research Fellowship Award
Mylvaganam Jeyakanthan, MD
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
"Nanosystems in Transplantation: Neonatal Tolerance Induction by Blood Group Antigen-Expressing Implants"

$40,000 ISHLT/Encysive Pharmaceuticals Research Fellowship Award
J. Raymond Fitzpatrick, III, MD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Cyclin A2 Mediated Cardiomyocyte Regeneration Therapy for Heart Failure"

$40,000 ISHLT/Astellas Research Fellowship Award
Sonja Schrepfer, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
"Stem Cell Transplantation for the Ischemic Myocardium: Answering the Basic Questions of Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Migration, Homing and Survival Under in Vivo and In Vitro Conditions"

$40,000 ISHLT/Actelion Research Fellowship Award
Takeshi Oyaizu, MD, PhD
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
"Nano-technology Based Delivery of Src. Inhibitor to Prevent Lung Ischemia Reperfusion Injury"

$12,000 ISHLT Research Grant in Nursing andSocial Sciences
Mi-Kyung Song, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA
"Utilization of Palliative Care Services for Lung Transplant Recipients"

$15,000 ISHLT Transplant Registry Junior Faculty Award
Beth D. Kaufman, MD
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
"Influence of Nutritional Status on Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplantation"

Caves Award
Heather E. Merry, MD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nursing and Social Science Excellence in Research Award
Christianne Kugler, PhD
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany