PAST RECIPIENTS - TRANSPLANT RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARD

2006

Rachel L. Anderson, MBBS
University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
"Antimicrobial Peptides and Respiratory Pathogens in the Development of Chronic Allograft Dysfunction After Human Lung Transplantation"

Zhaohui Li, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
"Generation and Characterization of a Heart Failure Mice Model Expressing a ZASP Cardiac Specific isoform"

Heather E. Merry, MD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"The Role of Innate Immunity in Lung Ischemia Reperfusion Injury"

Edward N. Seung, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Role of Effector T Cell Trafficking in Treg Function During Acute Lung Rejection"

Matthew J. Weiss, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Using Mixed Chimerism to Induce Tolerance in Porcine Lung Allograft Recipients"

2005

Ryan C. Fields, MD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
"Immune Mechanisms of Rejection in Human Lung Allografts"

Arne Nyerinck, MD
Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
"Comparative Study of Lung Injury in Heart-Beating Versus Non-Heart-Beating Donor"

Ahman Saad, MD
Yale University, New Haven, CT
"Tertiary Lymphoid Organs in Atherosclerotic Diseases and Their Role in Host vs Graft Rejection in Heart Transplantation"

2004

Christian A. Gleissner, MD
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
"IL-10 Inhibits Endothelium-Dependent T Cell Alloactivation: Molecular Mechanisms and In Vivo Relevance"

Tsuyoshi Shoji, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Induction of Tolerance to Indirectly Presented Alloantigen by Loading Host Dendritic Cells With Donor Peptides in a Miniature Swine Lung Transplantation Model"

Kendra N. Taylor, PhD
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
"Assessment of Innate Immune Activation and Toll-Like Receptor Function Within Lung Transplant Patients"

Monika Zwierzchoniewska, MD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
"Contribution of Neonatal Cardiac Myosin to Heart Allograft Survival"

2003

Felix Fernandez, MD
University of Washington School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
"Role of Matriz Metalloproteinase-2 in the Pathogenesis of Post-transplant Obliterative Airway Disease"

Ewout J. can den Bos, MD
University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Tracking of Progenitor Cells in the Coronary Circulation with Magnetic Resonance Imaging"

2002

Ruediger Hoerbelt, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Studies to Elucidate the Role of Activation-Induced Cell Death in the Induction of Tolerance in Miniature Swine Using Rapamycine, Donor-Specific Transfusions and Costimulation Blockade."

Markus Riha, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Ventricular Tissue Engineering: The Role of Acellular Matrix in Guided Cardiac Regeneration."

2001

Arnar Geirsson, MD
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
"Characterization of Throphoblast Factor Suppressing MHC Class II Expression"

Matteo Vatta, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
"Dystrophon Disruption in End-Stage Cardiomyopathies"

2000

Richard S. Lee, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Mechanisms and Treatment of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Miniature Swine Using Costimulatory Blockade and Donor MHC Allopeptides"

Douglas N. Miniati, MD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
"The Role of BCL-2 in the Oxidative Stress Signaling Pathways Following Cardiac Transplantation"

Christopher H. Wigfield, FRCS
Freeman Hospital and University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
"Brain Death Cytokine Induced Donor Organ Injury: Amelioration of Early Graft Dysfunction and Lung Transplantation"

1999

Donald C.K. Wong, PhD
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
"The Relationship Between VEGF Induced Vascular Permeability and Atherosclerosis: Implications for Transplant Vascular Disease"

George Juang, MD
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
"The Regulation of Potassium Channels Involved in Sudden Cardiac Death Failure"

Satoshi Saito, MD
University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
"TGF-Beta Gene Therapy in Cardiac Allograft Rejection"

SivaSai S.R. Krovvidi, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis, MO
"Indirect Recognition of Donor HLA Class Peptides and its Role in the Pathogenesis of Bronshiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Recipients"

1998

Kelly SA Blair, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
"CD40L in Primate Allograft Tolerance and Viral Immunity"

A.M. El Gamel, MD
Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom
"Cytokine Genotype and Accelerated Coronary Disease Following Cardiac Transplantation"

Alyssa M. Krasinskas, MD
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
"The Role of Bone Marrow-Derived Elements in Allograft Rejection"

Christine L. Lau, MD
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
"The Role of Antibodies in Discordant Pulmonary Xenograft Rejection"

Scott D. Ross, MD
University of Virginia Health Science Center, Charlottesville, VA
"Living Related Pulmonary Lobar Transplantation"

Margaret L. Schwarze, MD, MPP
Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA
"The "Thymoheart" Allograft: Effects of Vascularized Donor Thymus on Chronic Rejection and Xenotransplantation"

1997

Owen T. Lawrence, MD
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
"Improving Liposome Transfection Efficiency for Genetic Manipulation of Donor Endothelium: Novel Methodology Without Viral Genes"

Jonathen Chen, MD
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY
"Correlating Donor-Specific Endothelial Cell Alloreactivity with Transplant Coronary Artery Disease"

Anne K. Raisanen-Sokolowski, MD
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
"Transplant Arteriosclerosis in Cardiac Allografts: Use of Knockout Mice to Study Roles of ICAM-1 and P-Selectin"

1996

Andrew F. Pierre, MD
The Toronto Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
"The Role of Complement in Lung Transplantation"

Tuija S. Ikonen, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
"Chronic Rejection After Lung Transplantation - An Experimental Study on Obliterative Bronchiolitis and its Prevention"

1995

Frances L. Johnson, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
"Porcine Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Cardiac Xenotransplantation"

PAST RECIPIENTS - NORMAN E. SHUMWAY CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD

2006

Dennis A. Wigle, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
"Targeted Lung Regeneration from an Understanding of Cell Specification in the Developing Lung"

2004

Alan M. Ramirez, MD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
"Airway Myofibroblast Differentiation in Obliterative Bronchiolitis"

2002

Anthony Azakie, MD
University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
"Bioengineering Cardiac Myoblasts"

2000

Gordon D. Wu, MD
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
"Mechanism of Graft Tissue Response to Alloanitbody Injury"

PAST RECIPIENTS - CAVES AWARD

2007 Heather E. Merry, MD
2006 Gregor Warnecke, MD
2005 Sigrid Sandner, MD
2005 Frank D'Ovidio, MD
2004  M. D. Peterson, MD
2003  Sigrid Sandner, MD
2002  Peter Blaha, MD
2001  Alexander S. Krupnick, MD
2000  Michael P. Fischbein, MD
1999  Joerg Koglin, MD
1997  Simon D. Eiref, MD
1996  Moninder S. Bhabra, MD
1995  Elizabeth A. Davis, MD
1994  Jobst Winter, MD
1994  Alain Chapelier, MD
1993  David Marshman, MD
1992  David P. Kapelanski, MD
1991  A. Jiminez, MD
1990  Andres J. Duncan, MD
1989  A.M. Wood, MD
1988  Charles D. Fraser, Jr., MD
1987  Wim Van Der Bij, MD
1986  Stuart J. Knechtle, MD
1985  Michael A. Breda, MD
1984  Hermann Reichenspurner, MD
1983  Robbin G. Cohen, MD

PAST RECIPIENTS - NURSING AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AWARD

2006

Thierry Troosters, PhD
University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Lueven, Belgium
"Importance of Participation in Physical Activity After Heart and Lung Transplantation"

2005

Annemarie F. Kaan, MCN
St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"What is the Incidence of Tobacco Use After Heart Transplantation? Self-Report Versus Continued Testing"

2004

Deirdre E. Logan, PhD
Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA
"Parental Psychological Functioning and Medical Adherence Following Pediatric Heart Transplantation"

2003

Janet E. Madill, PhD Candidate, RD
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
"A Prospective Double-Blinded Placebo Controlled Trial of Vitamin B12, B6 and Folate Supplementation for the Treatment of Hyperhomocysteinemia in the Lung Transplant Population"

Diane H. Leloudis, RN, MSN
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
"The Effect of Topical Anesthesia on Pain Perception in Post Cardiac Transplant Patients Undergoing Cardiac Biopsy"

2002

Annette J. De Vito Dabbs, RN, MN, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA
"The Nature of the Transition After Lung Transplantation"

2001

Lynn Doering, RN, DNSc
UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, CA
"Quality of Life and Compliance Behaviors of Elderly Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure"

2000

Nancy M. Albert, MSN, RN, CCRN
Cleveland Clinuc Foundation, Cleveland, OH
"Anxiety Level Alterations and Interventions in Cardiac Transplant Candidates"

1999

Jeanne Salyer, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
"Health Promoting Lifestyle in Long-Term Cardiac Transplant Recipients"

1998

Katherine St. Clair, RN, MSN
Mid America Heart Institute, St.Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, MO
"Spirituality of the Heart Transplant Patient - A Grounded Theory Study"

1997

Eileen G. Collins, RN, PhD
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL
"The Impact of Heart Transplant on Spouses"

Deborah L. Williams, RN, MPH
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY
"Assessment of Outcome for HLHS Patients"

PAST RECIPIENTS - NURSING AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EXCELLENCE AWARD

2007  Christiane Kugler, PhD
2006  Kathleen L. Grady, PhD
2005  Mary Amanda Dew, PhD