TTS Congress Scientific Award (Travel Grants)
The Transplantation Society provides travel grants for young investigators and for those with financial difficulties who are members of The Transplantation Society.
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2017
CTRMS 2017 Travel Awards
| Raquel | Fernandez-Dacosta | London,UK | A Potential Rescue Mechanism for Hepatocytes with Impaired Mitochondria: Tunnelling Nanotube-Based Mitochondria Transfer from MSC |
| Siddharth | Sinha | London, UK | Alpha-1 Antitrypsin improves hepatocyte engraftment in a rat transplantation model by inhibiting immune cell infiltration |
| Leah | Steyn | Tucson, USA | Absorption Kinetics of Insulin Administered Subcutaneously, Intraperitoneally, and within an Immunoisolation Device in Rats: Implications for Encapsulated Islets Post-Transplant |
| Melissa | Thompson | Boston, MA | Human Hepatocyte Glycan Profiling to Determine Cell Membrane Surface Conditions |
| Wuzheng | Zhu | Chengdu,China | Amelioration of high glucose-induced endothelial oxidative injury by mesenchymal stem cells is associated with enhanced autophagy |
IPITA 2017 Travel Awards
| Emmanuel | Minja | Minneapolis, MN, USA | Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder: Risk Analysis for Pancreas Transplant Patients |
| Juewan | Kim | Adelaide, Australia | Regulatory T cell viability in 3D printed structures |
| Sebastian O. | Stead | Adelaide, Australia | Dendritic cells targeting in human and non-human primates with DC-SIGN functionalised porous silicon nanoparticles |
| Shadab | Abadpour | Oslo, Norway | Interleukin-22 reverses human islets dysfunction and apoptosis triggered by hyperglycemia and LIGHT |
| Gabrielle | Normand | Lyon, France | Pregnancy Outcomes In Simultaneous Pancreas And Kidney Transplant Recipients: A National French Survey Study |
| Kei | Yamane | Kyoto, Japan | Mitomycin-C treatment ameliorates the survival of transplanted islet graft in intraportal islet transplantation |
IPTA 2017 Travel Awards
| Kristin | Anton | US | Effect of our structured transition program on improving transition readiness skills in adolescent heart transplant patients |
| Ricarda | Blöte | Germany | Post-transplant metabolic syndrome (PTMS) in pediatric organ and stem cell transplant recipients |
| Pankaj | Chandak | UK | Ten year experience of kidney transplantation in children weighing <20kg |
| Imogen | Chappelow | UK | Analysis of a National Dataset: Single Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Paediatric Donors to Adult Recipients |
| Paul | Fadakar | US | Antibody-mediated rejection following alemtuzumab induction in pediatric kidney transplantation: a single center experience |
| Alexander | Fichtner | Germany | Prevalence and impact of angiotensin II type 1 receptor antibodies on graft function in paediatric renal transplant recipients |
| Ashley | Graham | Canada | Beyond survival: Developmental outcomes of young children post ventricular assist device support |
| Suk Kyun | Hong | KR | Comparison of outcomes after pediatric liver transplantation for metabolic liver disease with biliary atresia |
| Arnaud | L'Huillier | Canada | Infections Among Pediatric Transplant Candidates: Impact on Timing and Outcomes of Organ Transplantation |
| Natalia | Riva | AR | Sublingual Tacrolimus administration in pediatric liver transplant patients |
| Adrienn | Szabo | CA | Tacrolimus monotherapy after paediatric heart transplantation |
IRTA 2017 Travel Awards
| Christina | Belza | Toronto, ON, Canada | An observational Study of SMOFlipid® versus Intralipid® on the evolution of parenteral nutrition associated liver disease in neonates with intestinal failure |
| Fang Kuan | Chiou | Singapore | Successful treatment using Ebstein Barr virus-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes for post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder in pediatric small bowel transplantation |
| Esther | Neelis | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Wide Variation in Organization and Clinical Practice Between Pediatric Intestinal Failure Teams: a European survey |
| Melisa | Pucci Molineris | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Paneth and stem cells are not affected during initial stages of acute cellular rejection in small bowel transplantation in humans |
| Jonas | Varkey | Gotenburg, Sweden | Gothenburg intestinal transplant endoscopy score: A proposal for a grading system of the endoscopic findings after intestinal transplantation |
ISODP 2017 Travel Awards
| Mojtabaee | Meysam | Iran | Update on causes of family refusal for organ donation and the related factors: reporting the changes over 6 years |
| Hanson | Camilla | Australia | The lived experience of ‘being evaluated’ for organ donation: focus groups with living kidney donors |
| Patel | Mohan | India | Why Poor Organ Donation? A survey with focus on way of thinking and orientation about organ donation among clinic attendees and dialysis patients relatives |
| Ali | Mahmoud | Egypt | Does donor-recipient genetic relationship have an impact on outcome of living donor liver transplantation? |
| Kunwar | Kiran Jang | Nepal | Identifying Risk Severity Using Proposed “Wuhan Chart (Risk Severity Scale)’’ in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation |
| Patil | Mayur | India | Basic fundamental family care given to prevent morbidity in renal transplant recipients of India |
| Jedrzejko | Kalina | Poland | Kidney Exchange Programme in Poland |
ISVCA 2017 Travel Awards
| Jerome | Duisit | Louvain, Belgium | Bioengineering a human face graft: the matrix of identity |
| Orna | Friedman | Tel Aviv, Israel | Directional Freezing and Vitrification of Whole Limbs for Future Transplantation and Organ Banking |
| Calum | Honeyman | Livingston, UK | Vascularised Composite Allotransplantation in Solid Organ Transplant Patients |
| Barbara | Kern | Innsbruck, Austria | A Novel Murine Orthotopic Forelimb Transplantation Model that Allows for Reliable Assessment of Functional Recovery Resulting from Nerve Regeneration |
| Shaun | Mendenhall | Narbeth, PA, USA | Pediatric Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation: What is the Landscape for Obtaining Appropriate Donors is the Unites States? |
| Zhi Yang | Ng | Singapore | Towards Tolerance of Vascularized Composite Allografts – Development of Clinical Mixed Chimerism-Based Protocols in Swine |
IXA 2017 Travel Awards
| Elisa | Montanari | Switzerland | Beneficial effects of human mesenchymal stromal cells on porcine hepatocytes viability and albumin secretion |
| Beate | Rieblinger | Germany | Transgene stacking to generate multi-transgenic pigs for xenotransplantation |
| Chang Ho | Yoon | Korea | Anti-CD40 antibody mediated-costimulation blockade promotes long-term survival of full thickness corneal xenotransplantation in non-human primates |
| Xuan | Zhang | People's Republic of China | Improved Heterotopic Auxiliary Porcine Liver Transplantation in Spleen Fossa with Splenectomy in Tibetan Macaque |
| Steven | Kim | United States | CD4 depletion is necessary and sufficient for long-term pig-to-nonhuman primate renal xenotransplant survival |
| Riccardo | Sfriso | Switzerland | Evaluation of innate immune activation after ex vivo xenoperfusion of GTKO/hCD46/HLA-E transgenic pig hearts with human blood |
| Mohsen | Khosravi Maharlooei | United States | Generation of human/pig hybrid thymus to achieve immune tolerance to pig antigens with optimal immune function |
| Se Hyun | Choi | Korea | Treatment of anti-CD20 antibody and tacrolimus promotes long-term survival of full thickness corneal xenotransplantation in non-human primates |
| Bingsi | Gao | USA | Variables in the levels of anti-nonGal/nonNeu5Gc antibodies in healthy humans |
| Wenlong | Huang | Canada | In Vitro Immune Responses of PBMCs from Human Donors with and without Type 1 Diabetes Against Neonatal and Adult Pig Islet Cells |
TID 2017 Travel Awards
| Patrick | Trotter | United Kingdom |
| Paula | Moreira da Silva | Brazil |
2015
TSS 2015 Travel Awards
| Heba Nabil | Abdelrazik | Egypt |
| Anjan | Bongoni | Australia |
| Joanna | Cwykiel | United States |
| Beth | French | United States |
| Takayuki | Hirose | Japan |
| Hui | Liu | Hong Kong |
| Xiaoqian | Ma | China |
| Veena | Roberts | Australia |
| Yoshihiro | Saeki | Japan |
| Kate | Smith | United States |
| Amar | Singh | United States |
| Masaaki | Watanabe | Sweden |
| Lei | Zhang | United States |
IPITA-IXA-CTS 2015 Travel Awards
IPITA Track
| Ahmed | Arzouni, | UK |
| Robert | Crookston | UK |
| Brian | Eby | US |
| Julie | Hayward | Canada |
| Mazhar | Kanak, | US |
| Hussein | Khambalia | UK |
| Rahul | Krishnan, | US |
| Chao | Li | Canada |
| Gopalakrishnan | Loganathan | US |
| Andrew | Pepper | Canada |
| Nancy | Radke, | USA |
| Robert | Redfield, | US |
| Sara | Sackett, | US |
| Letícia F | Terra | Brazil |
| Sara | Ullsten | Sweden |
| Wensheng | Zhang | US |
IXA Track
| Esme | Dijke | Canada |
| Beth | French | USA |
| Laura | Higginbotham | USA |
| Hayato | Iwase | US |
| Jaeyoung | Kim | Korea |
| Hyun Je | Kim | Korea |
| Whayoung | Lee | US |
| Natacha | Madelon | Switzerland |
| Gregory R. | Martens | USA |
| Byoung-Hoon | Min | Korea |
| Yi Wen | Qian | Australia |
| Jun-Seop | Shin | Korea |
| Yixiong | Tan | Australia |
| Aseda | Tena | US |
| Mehmet C | Uluer | USA |
| Ji-Jing | Yan | Korea |
CTS Track
| Sana | Asif | Sweden |
| Maria | Coronel | USA |
| Joanna | Cwykiel | USA |
| Melissa | Davis | US |
| Gaetano | Faleo | USA |
| Dacosta | Fernandez | UK |
| Anthony | Frei | US |
| Liza | Grapensparr | Sweden |
| Periklis | Kyriazis | USA |
| Sharon | Lehec | UK |
| Xiaoqian | Ma | China |
| Fabio | Marongiu | Italy |
| Giuseppe | Pettinato | USA |
| Omaima | Sabek | US |
| Kate | Smith | US |
| Leah | Steyn | USA |
2013
| Sajjad | Ali | Pakistan |
| Jun | Araki | Japan |
| Dmitry | Bazarov | Russia |
| Anjan K | Bongoni | Switzerland |
| Mariea | Bosco | Australia |
| Benjamin | Bryner | USA |
| Karolina M. | Burghardt | Canada |
| Julia M. | Caliman | Brazil |
| Ricardo | Camprodon Gazulla | United Kingdom |
| David Trejo | Cervantes | France |
| Laurens J. | Ceulemans | Belgium |
| Xiaoyong | Chen | China |
| Fui Jiun | Choong | Australia |
| Shruti | Dave | India |
| Paramjeet | Dhadda | United Kingdom |
| Amanda | Dilenno | United States |
| Daniel | Espes | Sweden |
| Carmen | Fotino | United States |
| Atsushi | Fujio | Japan |
| Johanna | Grahammer | Austria |
| Roberto | Gramignoli | Sweden |
| Donald | Harris | United States |
| Genevieve | Huard | United States |
| Carl | Jorns | Sweden |
| Amy | Kelly | United States |
| Alan | Kerby | United Kingdom |
| Jung Sik | Kim | Korea |
| KyungSook | Kim | Japan |
| Jennifer P | Kitzmann | United States |
| Mathew | Koech | Kenya |
| Goutham | Kumar | United States |
| Giacomo | Lanzoni | United States |
| Joey | Lau | Sweden |
| Whayoung | Lee | United States |
| Pablo | Lobos | Argentina |
| Qi | Mao | China |
| Brett | McClelland | Canada |
| Raphael | Meier | Switzerland |
| Shruti | Mittal | United Kingdom |
| Gopika G | Nair | United States |
| Ryuichi | Nishimura | Japan |
| Mihai | Oltean | Sweden |
| Harry H. | Qin | United Kingdom |
| Chloe | Rackham | United Kingdom |
| Mir | Rahman | Bangladesh |
| Avneesh | Singh | United States |
| Kisha N | Sivanathan | Australia |
| Kristen J. | Skvorak | United States |
| John M. | Stewart | United States |
| Masayuki | Tasaki | United States |
| Aseda | Tena | United States |
| Sara | Ullsten | Sweden |
| Vijayaganapathy | Vaithilingam | Australia |
| Vincenzo | Villani | United States |
| Martin | von Websky | Germany |
| Shiori | Waki | Japan |
| Annemarie | Weissenbacher | Austria |
| Christopher W. | White | Canada |
| Laura J. | Wozniak | United States |
| Satoru | Yoshida | Japan |
| Nathan W. | Zammit | Australia |
2011
| Jun | Araki | Japan |
| Ana Paula | Baptista | Brazil |
| Dmitry | Bazarov | Russia |
| Julio | Bermudez | Colombia |
| Daniel | Bowers | USA |
| Ricardo | Camprodon | United Kingdom |
| Joanne | Chia | Australia |
| Priti | Chougule | Sweden |
| Andrea | Ferencz | Hungary |
| Alessandrina | Freitas | USA |
| Hani | Haider | Kuwait |
| Fadi | Issa | United Kingdom |
| Hannes | Kalscheuer | Germany |
| Gurvinder | Kaur | USA |
| Nilgun | Kececioglu | Turkey |
| Burnett | Kelly | USA |
| Cheng-Hung | Lin | USA |
| Zurab | Machaidze | USA |
| Beatriz | Mahillo | Spain |
| Raphael | Meier | Switzerland |
| Ryosuke | Misawa | USA |
| Eduardo | Moraes Leao Peixoto | USA |
| Gerhard | Mundinger | USA |
| Silke | Niederhaus | USA |
| Yoshihide | Ogawa | Japan |
| Mihai | Oltean | Sweden |
| Thomas | Pech | Germany |
| Alessandra | Petrelli | Italy |
| Peta | Philips | Australia |
| Chloe | Rackham | U.K. |
| Anand Sivaprakash | Rathnasamy Muthusamy | U.K. |
| Alvaro | Rojas-Pena | USA |
| Anne Margot | Roskott | Netherlands |
| Joseph | Scalea | USA |
| Holger | Schäffler | Germany |
| Franz | Schaub | Germany |
| Christian | Schuetz | USA |
| Michael | Sereiniggs | Austria |
| Robert | Sucher | Austria |
| Sharon | Swain | USA |
| Masayuki | Tasaki | Japan |
| Peter | Thompson | USA |
| Radbeh | Torabi | USA |
| Hsinlin | Tsai | Taiwan |
| Koichiro | Uchida | USA |
| Philip | Wai | USA |
| Jonathan Neil | Walker | U.K. |
| Martin | Wijkstrom | USA |
| Laura | Wozniak | USA |
| Telford | Yeung | Canada |
| Nathan | Zammit | Australia |
2010
| NAME | ABSTRACT TITLE |
|---|---|
| Heba Abdelrazik, Egypt | Human Platelet Lysate Alters Not Only The Expansion Potential Of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells But Also Its Effect On CD34 Selected Cord Blood Progenitors |
| Asik Ali, India | Renal Transplantation in the elderly :South Indian Experience |
| Gopal Basu, India | Concentration Controlled Mycophenolate Dosing in Renal Transplantation in India |
| Rajendra Bhandari, Nepal | Eye donation program in a developing country: poor resources towards technology. |
| Nirupama Chandel, India | Variations in CYP3A4, CYP3A5 and MDR1 have an impact on gene transcription and activity: importance in CNI metabolism |
| Si He, China | The Treatment and Risk Factors Analysis of Hypoglycemia in Diabetic rhesus Monkeys |
| Speranta Maria lacob, Romania | Survival outcomes following liver transplantation (SOFT) score? A useful predictor of short term mortality in Romanian Liver Transplant Program |
| ShamiJhu Joshi, Nepal | Attitude towards Kidney donation among Primary care patients in developing country. |
| Vera Morozova, Russia | Contradictory impact of donor type 1 plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) gene promoter polymorphism on renal allograft survival |
| Li Zeng, China | Analysis of the Dead Cases in Pig-to-Rhesus Monkey Islet Transplantation |
2004
| Anders | ASBERG | Oslo | Norway |
| Brenda M. | BOOMA | Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| Andrew R. | BUSHELL | Oxford | UK |
| Maria M. | CARVALHO-GASPAR | Oxford | UK |
| Immaculada | HERRERO-FRESNEDA | Barcelona | Spain |
| Nicholas D. | JONES | Oxford | UK |
| Thomas | LAUMONIER | Geneva | Switzerland |
| Hanna Maria | SAVOLAINEN-PELTONEN | Helsinki | Finland |
| Robert A. | CINA | Boston | USA |
| Juan L. | CONTRERAS | Birmingham | USA |
| Thomas | FEHR | Boston | USA |
| Dax. A. | GUENTHER | Boston | USA |
| Christine L. | HSIEH | Stanford | USA |
| Bibo | KE | Los Angeles | USA |
| Patricia W. | LEE | Boston | USA |
| Ashok | MUNIAPPAN | Boston | USA |
| Shuji | NOBORI | Boston | USA |
| Erica D. | RIDDLE | Stanford | USA |
| Natalya V | SEMILETOVA | Los Angeles | USA |
| Justyna | STANISLAWSKA | Warsaw | Poland |
| Juaita M. | SHAFFER | Charlestown | USA |
| Andrew L. | SNOW | Stanford | USA |
| Masahiro | TANEMURA | Osaka | Japan |
| Shuichiro | UEHARA | Boston | USA |
| Maria | VAYSBERG | Stanford | USA |
| Mario | VILATOBA | Birmingham | USA |
| Minh Diem | VU | Boston | USA |
| Karl. L. | WOMER | Gainsville | USA |
| Satoshi | YAMAMOTO | Osaka | Japan |
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