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ISHLT GRANTS AND AWARDS PROGRAM - 2010 RECIPIENTS


LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Margaret Billingham, MD


GRANT AWARDS

$80,000 ISHLT Norman E. Shumway Career Development Award Supported by Funding from Astellas

Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD
University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany
"Understanding the Immunobiology of Pluripotent Stem Cell Transplantation"
Director of Research:  Hermann Reichenspurner, MD, PhD, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany

$40,000 ISHLT Research Fellowship Grant Award Supported by Funding from Novartis

Esme Dijke, PhD
University of Alberta, Canada
"To B or Not to B? - The Fate of B-cell Memory in B-cell Tolerance After ABO-incompatible Heart Transplantation in Infants"
Director of Research: Lori J. West, MD, DPhil, University of Alberta, Canada

$40,000 ISHLT Research Fellowship Grant Award Supported by Funding from Genentech

Smita Sihag, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Gene Expression Signatures and Mechanistic Pathways of Tolerance and Rejection in Orthotopic Swine Lung Allografts"
Director of Research: James S. Allan, MD, MGH Cardiothoracic Transplantation Laboratory, Boston, MA

$40,000 ISHLT Research Fellowship Grant Award Supported by Funding from Gilead

Sumiharu Yamamoto, MD
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
"The Role of Emergency Granulopoiesis in Linking Primary Graft Dysfunction to the Inhibition of Mouse Lung Allograft Acceptance"
Director of Research: Andrew Gelman, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

$40,000 ISHLT Research Fellowship Grant Award Supported by Funding from United Therapeutics

Khurram Shahzad, MD
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
"Immune Mechanisms of Graft Dysfunction after Heart Transplantation - Identification of Potential Biomarkers"
Director of Research: Mario C. Deng, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

$40,000 ISHLT Research Fellowship Grant Award Supported by Funding from XDx

Nina Pilat, MSc, PhD
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
"The Role and Therapeutic Use of Regulatory T-cells in Chimerism-based Heart Graft Tolerance"
Director of Research: Thomas Wekerle, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

$75,000 ISHLT Branislav Radovancevic Memorial Fellowship Award Supported by Funding From Thoratec

Iki Adachi, MD
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
"Pediatric LVAD Recovery:  An Analysis at the Cellular & Sub-Cellular Level
Director of Research:  David L. S. Morales, MD, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

$12,000 ISHLT Nursing and Social Sciences Research Grant Award

Heike Spaderna, PhD
Psychologisches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany
"Psychosocial and Behavioral Predictors of Ventricular Assist Device Implantation in the Waiting for a New Heart Study"

$5,000 ISHLT Transplant Registry Early Career Award

Jennifer Conway, MD, FRCPC, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
"Survival Outcomes and Long Term Morbidities in Children Undergoing Retransplantation: An Analysis of the ISHLT Pediatric Heart Transplant Registry"
Director of Research:  Anne I. Dipchand, MD, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Kiran K. Khush, MD, MAS
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
"Does Sex Matter? Investigating the Impact of Donor and Recipient Sex on Outcomes After Heart Transplantation"
Director of Research: Hannah Valantine, MD, MRCP, Stanford University School of Medicine

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ABSTRACT AWARDS

Philip K. Caves Award

Tobias Deuse, MD, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, and University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany
"Generation of Genetically Engineered Low-Antigenicity MHC I Knock-Down Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Prevent Immune Rejection"
Mentor: Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine and University Heart Center Hamburg

ISHLT Branislav Radovancevic Memorial Best MCSD Paper Award

Jose N. Nativi, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
"Determinants of Survival in Patients Bridged to Heart Transplantation with Continuous-Flow vs. Pulsatile-Flow Ventricular Assist Devices"

ISHLT Nursing and Social Science Excellence in Research Award

Bronwyn Levvey, RN
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
"Are DCD Lungs Superior? Excellent Intermediate Results from a Donation after Cardiac Death Lung Transplant National Collaborative"