Past Abstract Award Winners

2024

Majid Husain, MD
UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, CA USA
"Favorable Use of Daratumumab in Highly Sensitized Pediatric Heart Transplant Candidates and Recipients"

2023

Rossa Brugha, BMBCh, PhD
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
"Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Therapy for Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease in an Adolescent Following Lung Transplantation"

2022

Hyeon-Ju Ali, MD
"Management of Pulmonary Hypertension Secondary to Valvular Heart Disease with Angiotensin-Receptor Neprilysin Inhibitor"

2021

Daniel Beauchamp, MD
"Metastatic Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma Masquerading as Acute on Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Requiring ECMO"

2019

Hari P. Tunuguntla, MD, MPH
"Stop the Leak! Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Pediatric VAD Patient"

2018

Tiffany K. Roberts, PhD
"Third Party HLA Antibody as a Surrogate Marker for Treatment of Non-HLA AMR"

2017

Robert Gottlieb, MD, PhD
"Donor-derived transmission of hepatitis C in a hepatitis C-naïve heart transplant recipient treated with a pan-genotypic agent with 12-week sustained virologic response: viral kinetics and implications for expanded donor availability"

2016

Yasufumi Goda, MD
"Bilateral Living-Donor Lobar Lung Transplantation Using Right to Left Inverted Lobar Transplantation and Sparing Native Right Upper Lobe in a Patient with Undersized Donor Lungs"

2015

Ankit Bharat, MD
"Autoantibodies Against Lung Tissue Can Cause Hyper Acute as Well as Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection Following Lung Transplantation"

2014

Lauren Sacha
"Carfilzomib for Refractory Antibody Mediated Rejection and Allosensitization in Heart Transplantation"

2013

Mustafa Ahmed, MD
"Rapid Respiratory Failure after Heart Transplant"

2012

Erin Albers, MD
"Ventricular Dysfunction after Pediatric Heart Transplant: It’s Not Always Rejection!"

2011

Michelle M. Kittleson, MD, PhD
"Managing the Threat of Donor-Transmitted Amoebic Encephalitis in a Heart Transplant Recipient"

2024

Julianna Buchwald, BS
University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Worcester, MA USA
"Optimizing Hearts for Transplantation Using Small Interfering RNA-Based Therapies During Ex Vivo Machine Perfusion"

2023

Sambavan Jeyakumar, MD
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Australia
"Retinal Microvascular Remodelling Predicts Adverse Events in Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Supported Patients"

2022

Rayon Rajendra, BSc
"Donor Airway Bile Acid as a Biomarker of Aspiration and Predictor of Post Lung Transplant Outcomes"

2021

Xiaomeng Hu
"CRIPSR/Cas9 Technology: Hypoimmunogenic Pluripotent Stem Cells Evade Immune Rejection In Fully Immunocompetent Allogeneic Recipients"

2019

Argit Marishta, BS
"Mitochondrial DNA Mismatches in Thoracic Transplantation: Potential Triggers of Allograft Immunogenicity"

2018

Kenneth A. Sinclair, BSC (Hons), PhD
"Lysophosphatidic Acid Drives Recuritment and Fibroblastic Differntiation of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction"

2017

Hsi-Min Hsiao, PhD
"Splenic Monocytes Promote Neutrophil Extravasation into Lung Grafts via a TLR9-IL1β-Dependent Pathway"

2024

Toshiyuki Ko, MD, PhD
The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
"Quantification of Myocardial DNA Damage Predicts Prognosis of Heart Failure from Various Underlying Diseases"

2023

Brian Wayda, MD, MPH
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
"Prediction of Donor Heart Acceptance for Transplant: Results From the Donor Heart Study"

2022

Aditi Nayak, MD, MS
"Machine Learning Algorithms Identify Distinct Phenotypes of Right Heart Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implant"

2021

Aizhou Wang, PhD
"Developing Universal ABO Blood Type Donor Lungs with Ex Vivo Enzymatic Treatment: A Proof of Concept Feasibility Study"

2019

Yizhan Guo, MD
"Microbiome Dependent Regulatory T Cell Generation Correlates with Acute and Chronic Lung Allograft Rejection in a Murine Model"

2018

Jane O, MD
"Heart En Bloc Thymus Cotransplantation in NHPs Controls Cellular but not Humoral Activity"

2017

Stephen Chiu, MD
"Donor-Derived Non-Classical Monocytes Recruit Recipient Neutrophils and Mediate Primary Lung Allograft Dysfunction"

2016

Corey E. Tabit, MD
"Increased Angiogenesis and Non-Surgical Bleeding in Patients with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices Are Mediated by Thrombin-Induced Angiopoietin-2"

2015

Simon Pecha, MD
"Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Tissue Engineered Cardiac Repair"

2014

Jessica Spahn
"DAP12 Expression By Lung-Resident Macrophages Mediates Pulmonary Ischemia Reperfusion Injury By Promoting Neutrophil Extravasation"

2013

Alexey Dashkevich, MD
"Intracoronary Treatment with VEGF-C/D Inhibitor Enhances Cardiac Allograft Survival and Prevents Chronic Rejection by Regulating Lymphatic Endothelial Cell Activation"

2012

Simo Syrjälä, MD
"COMP-Ang1 Reduces Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury-Induced Microvascular Dysfunction and Chronic Rejection in Rat Cardiac Allografts"

2011

Ankit Bharat, MD
"Respiratory Viruses Convert CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ Regulatory T-Cells (Tregs) into Th-17 Cells: Role in Promoting Autoimmunity and Chronic Lung Allograft Rejection"

2010

Tobias Deuse, MD, PhD
"Generation of Genetically Engineered Low Antigenicity MHC I Knock-Down Human Embryonic Stem Cells To Prevent Immune Rejection"

2009

Howard Huang, MD
"Deletion of Inhibitory¬ Kinase ¬ from Myeloid Cells Prevents Induction of Mouse Lung Allograft Acceptance"

2008

Satish N. Nadig, MD
"Ex Vivo Expanded Human Treg Inhibit the Development of Transplant Arteriosclerosis in a Humanized In Vivo Model"

2007

Heather E. Merry, MD
"Lipopolysaccharide Preconditioning Is Protective in Lung Ischemia Reperfusion Injury"

2006

Gregor Warnecke, MD
"Pulmonary Allograft Tolerance in Pigs Is Associated with Increased Frequency and Regulatory Function of CD4+CD25+ T Cells"

2005

Sigrid Sandner, MD
"Cd4+ Cd25+ Regulatory T Cells Mediate Antigen-Specificity in a Novel TCR Transgenic Model of Alloimmunity"

2005

Frank D'Ovidio, MD
"Donor Lung Surfactant Protein Gene Expression Predicts Early and Long-Term Outcome"

2004

M. D. Peterson, MD
"Gal_(1,3)-Galactose on Xenogeneic Endothelium Is a Putative Ligand for Human Monocytes"

2003

Sigrid Sandner, MD
"Visualization of Alloreactive CD4 T Cell Response and Tolerance Induction In Vivo"

2002

Peter Blaha, MD
"The Effects of Rapamycin and Cyclosporin A on Tolerance Induction Through Bone Marrow Transplantation With Costimulation Blockade"

2001

Alexander S. Krupnick, MD
"A Murine Model of Left Ventricular Tissue Engineering"

2000

Michael P. Fischbein, MD
"Signaling Through CD40 Can Replace the Requirements of CD4+ Lymphocytes in Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy"

1999

Joerg Koglin, MD
"Stat4 – Mediated TH1 Responses Promote the Development of Graft Arteriosclerosis"

1998

Carla C. Baan, PhD
"Anti-CD25 Therapy Reveals the Redundancy of the Intragraft Cytokine Network After Clinical Heart Transplantation"

1997

Simon D. Eiref, MD
"Transplantation of Chimeric Hearts Suggest That Passenger Leukocytes Are Unnecessary for Rejection"

1996

Moninder S. Bhabra, MD
"Critical Importance of the First 10 Minutes of Lung Graft Reperfusion Following 24 Hour Storage"

1995

Elizabeth A. Davis, MD
"Inhibition of Neutrophil Chemotaxis/Adhesion and the Membrane Attack Complex of Complement Synergistically Prolong Cardiac Xenograft Survival"

1994

Jobst Winter, MD
"Defective BALT in Long-Term Surviving Rat Lung Allografts"

1994

Alain Chapelier, MD
"Pentoxifylline Reduces Lung Injury Associated with Ischemia Reperfusion"

1993

David Marshman, MD
"Outcome in Paired Recipients of Single Lung Transplants from the Same Donor"

1992

David P. Kapelanski, MD
"Lung Reperfusion Injury Is Reduced by Inhibiting a CD18 Dependent Mechanism"

1991

A. Jiminez, MD
"Noninvasive Radioisotopic Diagnosis of Acute Cardiac Rejection"

1990

Andres J. Duncan, MD
"Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection and Survival Following Heart-Lung and Double Lung Transplantation"

1989

A.M. Wood, MD
"Does Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Recur after Heart-Lung Transplantation (HLTx)?"

1988

Charles D. Fraser, Jr., MD
"Early 31P NMR Bioenergetic Changes Potentially Predict Rejection in Heterotopic Heart Allografts"

1987

Wim Van Der Bij, MD
"Antigen Test for Early Diagnosis of Active Cytomegalovirus Infection in Heart Transplant Recipients"

1986

Stuart J. Knechtle, MD
"Cardiac Xenograft Survival Using Total Lymphoid Irradiation and Cyclosporine"

1985

Michael A. Breda, MD
"Twenty-Four Hour Lung Preservation with Hypothermia and Leukocyte Depletion"

1984

Hermann Reichenspurner, MD
"Cytological and Immunological Monitoring – A Noninvasive Method for the Diagnosis of Rejection Episodes Under Cyclosporine Therapy"

1983

Robbin G. Cohen, MD
"Functional Evaluation of Syngeneic Lung Transplants in Rats"