ISHLT2025 Scientific Abstract Award Finalists Announced
The ISHLT will present three scientific abstract awards at the upcoming Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions in Boston. Finalists for the Early Career and Trainee Clinical Case Dilemmas Best Presentation Award, Philip K. Caves Award, and Early Career Scientist Award are below. Abstract award recipients will be honored during the Awards Ceremony at General Session III at ISHLT2025 on Wednesday, 30 April.
Learn more about each presentation through the Online Program Viewer.
Early Career and Trainee Clinical Case Dilemmas: The Best of the Best Award Session
This award recognizes excellence by early career and trainees from top abstracts submitted in the Early Career Clinical Case Reports category.

Abstract Title: First Clinical Use of a Bioprosthetic Total Artificial Heart in a Patient with an Invasive Mediastinal Tumor

Abstract Title: Recurrence of Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease After Lung Transplant

Abstract Title: A Novel Approach to Balance Cardiac Ventricles and Maintain Tissue Perfusion After Pre-Emptive Bilateral Pneumonectomy

Abstract Title: Noninvasive Monitoring Techniques in the Pregnant Heart Transplant Patient

Abstract Title: Ex Vivo Anomalous Right Coronary Artery Translocation in the Donor Heart Prior to Transplantation

Abstract Title: Right-Atrial Placement of a Durable Right-Ventricular Assist Device in Severe Cardiomegaly

Abstract Title: Novel Case of Olipudase Alfa Enzyme Replacement Therapy to Treat Niemann-Pick Disease Type-B Following Lung Transplant

Abstract Title: 3D Modeling as an Integral Planning Tool for Successful Combined Heart-Liver Transplant in a Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis with Complex Fontan Circulation

Abstract Title: Re-Do Sternotomy in Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death (DCD) and Donation After Brain Death (DBD) Lung Donors - A Case Series
Philip K. Caves Candidates Award Session

Abstract Title: Predicting Early Failure After LVAD Explantation: A VAD Wean Registry Analysis

Abstract Title: Characterization of Exercise Hemodynamic Profiles in Patients with Normal Resting Pulmonary Arterial Pressures

Abstract Title: Quantifying the Mental Health Burden of the Pediatric Lung Transplant Journey in the United States

Abstract Title: The Reliability of Automated Artificial Intelligence Echocardiographic Detection of Abnormal Donor Heart Structure and Function

Abstract Title: Circulating Metabolites for Non-Invasive Detection of Acute Cellular Rejection After Heart Transplantation

Abstract Title: Single Cell Sequencing Reveals Molecular Correlates of Progression from Acute Lung Allograft Dysfunction
Early Career Scientist Award
This award aims to recognize excellence in research in the field of basic and translational science with the goal of encouraging non-clinicians in the early stages of their careers to submit their work for presentation at the ISHLT Annual meeting.

Abstract Title: Anti-Donor T Cell Dynamics and Clad Risk in the Assessment of Lung Allograft Rejection - Measurement of T Cell Immune Synapses (ALARM-T) Study

Abstract Title:First Sub-Zero Cardiac Allograft Preservation and Reanimation Following 24-Hours of Isochoric Supercooled Preservation

Abstract Title: Recipient Plasma Metabolome as a Predictor of Primary Graft Dysfunction in Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

Abstract Title: Expression of Trail and Trail Receptors by Club Cells in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD)
