ISHLT2024: Early Career Scientist Award Finalist Presentations
10 April to 13, 2024 | Various Sessions
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. Five finalists invited to present their abstract research at the Annual Meeting, and the registration fee will be waived for these finalists.
The winner will be announced after the Annual Meeting.
Award Finalists
Alessia Giarraputo, MSc, PhD
Paris Institute for Transplantation and Organ Regeneration
Paris, France
Oral Session 02 | Wednesday, 10 April 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. CEST
Abstract Title: Short-Term Immuno-Molecular Landscape in 10-Gene Edited Pig-to-Human Heart Xenografts
Mudassir Banday, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA USA
Oral Session 10 | Wednesday, 10 April 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. CEST
Abstract Title: Distinct Non-HLA Antibody Signatures Correlate with Endothelial Crossmatch Status and Lung Function Decline in Lung Transplant Recipients
Julianna Buchwald, BS
RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Worcester, MA USA
Oral Session 19 | Thursday, 11 April 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. CEST
Abstract Title: Optimizing Hearts for Transplantation Using Small Interfering RNA-Based Therapies During Ex Vivo Machine Perfusion
Chuanjie Niu
Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
Guangzhou, China
Oral Session 35 | Friday, 12 April 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. CEST
Abstract Title: Normothermic Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion with Exosomes from Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improves Graft Function in Donation After Circulatory Death Hearts via Pi3k/akt Pathway
Isaac Alderete, BS
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC USA
Oral Session 36 | Saturday, 13 April 8:00 – 9:15 a.m. CEST
Abstract Title: AAV Delivery of PD-L1 with Concomitant CTLA-4 Immunoglobulin Attenuates Acute Cellular Rejection in a Rat Lung Transplant Model