Awards - Past Recipients



ISHLT GRANTS AND AWARDS PROGRAM

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Pioneers in Transplantation Lecture
2009
2008
2006
2002

2000


Christian Cabrol, MD
Richard E Lower, MD
Leonard L. Bailey, MD
Michael DeBakey, MD
Bruce Reitz, MD
Christiaan Barnard, MD
Joel D. Cooper, MD
Norman E. Shumway, MD

Lifetime Achievement Award
2004
1999
1996
Sir Magdi Yacoub, MD
Keith Reemtsma, MD
Norman Shumway, MD

Lifetime Service Award
1997
1996
Jacques Losman
Michael Kaye

Research Fellowship Award

2008

Jonathan Choy, PhD
Yale University, New Haven, CT
"Regulation of iNOS in Human T Cells: Role of SDF-1"

Satoshi Itoh, MD
Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
"Nanoscale Therapeutics: A Novel Approach to Cardiac Protection - PMM2.1.2 Nanoparticles Attenuate Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy"

Tereza Martinu, MD
Duke University, Durham, NC
"Role of CXC Chemokines at the Innate-Adaptive Interface of Alloimmune Lung Injury"

Deepti Saini, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
"Immune Mechanisms of Rejection in Human Lung Allografts"

Atsushi Shiozaki, MD, PhD
University of Toronto, Canada
"Roles of XB130, a Nove Regulator of PI3K/Akt Pathway, in Airway Epithelial Injury and Repair Post Lung Transplantation"

Seiichiro Sugimoto, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
"The Role of IL-6 in Ischemia Reperfusion Injury-Induced Abrogation of Mouse Lung Transplant Acceptance"

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2007

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"

Timothy M. Millington, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Expanding Primate Tregs Ex-Vivo to Facilitate Tolerance in Vivo"

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"

Mylvaganam Jeyakanthan
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
"Nanosystems in Transplantation: Neonatal Tolerance Induction by Blood Group Antigen-Expressing Implants"

J. Raymond Fitzpatrick, III, MD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Cyclin A2 Mediated Cardiomyocyte Regeneration Therapy for Heart Failure"

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"

Takeshi Oyaizu, MD, PhD
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
"Nano-technology Based Delivery of Src. Inhibitor to Prevent Lung Ischemia Reperfusion Injury"

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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"

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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"

Ahmad 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"

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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."

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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"

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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"

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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"

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Norman E. Shumway Career Development Award

2008

Glen Westall, MD, PhD
Alfred Hospital, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
"Ex-Vivo Assessment of Pulmonary Xenografts"

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"

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Philip K. Caves Award

2008 Satish N. Nadig, MD
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

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Nursing and Social Sciences Research Award

2008

Stacey M. Pollock-Bar Ziv, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Personality, Body Image, and Disordered Eating in Pediatric Heart and Lung Transplant Recipients"

2007

Mi-Kyung Song, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA
"Utilization of Palliative Care Services for Lung Transplant Recipients"

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"

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Nursing and Social Sciences Excellence in Research Award

2008  Annette DeVito Dabbs, RN, PhD
2007  Christiane Kugler, PhD
2006  Kathleen L. Grady, PhD
2005  Mary Amanda Dew, PhD

Transplant Registry Junior Faculty Award

2008

Cynthia Gries, MD, MSc
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Focusing on the Future: Development of a Predictive Model for Long Term Survival"

Scott Halpern, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
"A Decision Analysis of Single versus Double Lung Transplant Strategies for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease"

Josef Stehlik, MD, MPH
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
"Interactions Among Donor and Recipient Characteristics and Their Impact on Post-Transplant Survival"

2007

Beth D. Kaufman, MD
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
"Influence of Nutritional Status on Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplantation"

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