Past Research Grant Recipients

2014

Masahiro Ono, MD, PhD
Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX USA
"Individual blood pressure optimization based on cerebral blood flow autoregulation monitoring after implantation of continuous-flow left ventricular assist device"

2012

Antigone Koliopoulou, MD
Evaggelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
"Platelet Phenotyping with Mechanical Circulatory Support"

2010

Iki Adachi, MD
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX USA
"Pediatric LVAD Recovery: An Analysis at the Cellular & Sub-Cellular Level"

Supported by Abiomed

2023

Thomas Hanff, MD, MSCE
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
"Angiotensin II Deficiency in Cardiogenic Shock: Using Novel Translational Insights into Cardiogenic Shock Pathophysiology to Guide the Timing and Optimal Use of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support"

Paolo Meani, MD, PhD
Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
"A Multicentric Left Ventricular Venting Strategy Comparison in Patients Receiving Extracorporeal Life Support - A Prospective Observational Study"

2019

Noran E. Shumway Career Development Award

Julien Guihaire, MD, PhD
Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Le Plessis Robinson, France
"Metabolic Profiling of Cardiac Allografts in a Porcine Model of Organ Donation After Circulatory Death"

Joel D. Cooper Career Development Award

Daniel Calabrese, MD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA
"Targeting Antibody-Dependent NK Cell-Mediated Rejection Pathways in Lung Allograft Recipients"

2018

Norman E. Shumway Career Development Award

David Schibilsky, MD
University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
"Automated Controlled Ex-Vivo Normothermic Perfusion (ac-EVP) of the Heart and Organ Protection by Carbon-Monoxide Application"

Joel D. Cooper Career Development Award

Brian Wong, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO USA
"The Role of Metabolic Regulation of Lymphangiogenesis and Lymphatic Function in Lung Transplantation"

2017

Norman E. Shumway Career Development Award
(supported by a gift from Enduring Hearts)

Nicole Valenzuela, PhD, D(ABHI)
UCLA Immunogenetics Center, Los Angeles, CA USA
"Defining Tissue-Resident Endothelial Heterogeneity and Plasticity after Inflammatory Insult in Solid Organ Transplantation"

Joel D. Cooper Career Development Award

Keki Baslara, MD
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO USA
"Innate Immune Mechanisms of Myocardial Inflammation Following Transplantation"

2016

Stephen Juvet, MD, PhD, FRCPC
University Health Network, Toronto, ON Canada
"Multidimensional Analysis of Alloreactivity and Intragraft Cellular Immunity in Human Lung Allograft Rejection"

2015

Xingan Wang, MD, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO USA
"The Role of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps on Lung Transplant Tolerance"

2014

Keshava Rajagopal, MD, PhD
University of Maryland SoM and Medical Center, Baltimore, MD USA
"Impact of mechanical loading on cardiac stem cell function in heart failure"

2012

Tereza Martinu, MD, PhD
Duke University, Durham, NC USA
"Importance of IL-17 In Post-Transplant Airway Fibrosis"

2010

Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD
University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany
"Understanding the Immunobiology of Pluripotent Stem Cell Transplantation"

2008

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

2006

Dennis A. Wigle, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN USA
"Targeted Lung Regeneration from an Understanding of Cell Specification in the Developing Lung"

2004

Alan M. Ramirez, MD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA
"Airway Myofibroblast Differentiation in Obliterative Bronchiolitis"

2002

Anthony Azakie, MD
University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA
"Bioengineering Cardiac Myoblasts"

2000

Gordon D. Wu, MD
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
"Mechanism of Graft Tissue Response to Alloanitbody Injury"

Supported by CareDx

2022

Berta Saéz-Giménez, MD, PhD
Hospital Universitari Vall Hebron, Madrid, Spain
"Dd-cfDNA to Monitor CLAD Treatment"

2014

Benjamin Freed, MD
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL USA
"Non-invasive Detection of Right Ventricular Interstitial Fibrosis using MRI in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension due to Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction"

2023

Lakshmi Gokanapudy Hahn, MD
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO USA
"Clonal Hematopoiesis in Heart Transplant Recipients"

2023

Kaushik Amancherla, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN USA
"Molecular Insights into Early Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Using Single-Nuclear Multiomics"

2021

Christian Heim, MD, MHBA
University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
"Antiproliferative treatment options for chronic rejection after heart transplantation"

2019

Kiran Khush, MD
Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
"Leukotriene B4: A Potential Mediator and Biomarker for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy"

Shelley Miyamoto, MD
Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO USA
"Circulating microRNAs: Biomarker for Acute Graft Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients"

2019

Brittany Koons, PhD, RN
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
"Prospective Study of Symptom Profiles and Length of Post-transplant Hospitalization Among Lung Transplant Candidates"

Benjamin Tarrant, B.Physio
Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia
"Post-operative, Inpatient Rehabilitation After Lung Transplant Evaluation (PIRATE): A Feasibility Study"

2018

Martha Abshire, PhD, RN
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD USA
"The Context of VAD Caregiving: A Mixed Methods, Dyadic Study"

Mary Amanda Dew, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA USA
"Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes in the Late Years After Cardiothoracic Transplantation"

2017

Samantha Anthony, PhD, MSW
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON Canada
"Improving the Care of Pediatric Thoracic Transplant Candidates and Recipients Through the Integration of Patient-Reported Outcomes into Clinical Practice"

2016

Mohammad Alrawashdeh, BSN, MSN
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
"Clinicians’ Acceptance of Interactive Health Technologies to Support Patients’ Self-Management"

ISHLT/Enduring Hearts Joint Nursing, Health Sciences and Allied Health Research Grant

2015

JiYeon Choi, PhD, RN
University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, PA USA
"Tele-rehabilitation for Lung Transplant Candidates and Recipients"

2014

Lea Ann Matura, PhD, RN
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
"Slow-paced respiration therapy for treatment of a symptom cluster in pulmonary arterial hypertension"

2013

Jo Wray, PhD
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
"An exploratory study of the psychological impact of a ventricular assist device for children and their families"

Jane Haines, DNP, RN, CMSRN
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA USA
"A randomized controlled trial to assess the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on stress and anxiety in caregivers of lung transplant patients"

2012

Lut Berben, PhD, RN
University of Basel, Institute of Nursing Science, Basel, Switzerland
"Chronic Illness Management Implementation in Heart Transplant Centers Study"

Connie White-Williams, PhD, RN, FAAN
University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL USA
"Returning to School: The Lived Experiences of School Age Heart Transplant Recipients"

2011

Christiane Kugler, PhD
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
"Impact of Depression on Chronic Allograft Vasculopathy After Heart Transplantation"

Hilde Bollen, RN
University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
"Emotional Distress, Quality of Life and Care Burden in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices and their Partners; A Prospective Study"

2010

Heike Spaderna, PhD and Gerdi Weidner, PhD
Psychologisches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany
"Psychosocial and Behavioral Predictors of Ventricular Assist Device Implantation in the Waiting for a New Heart Study"

2008

Stacey M. Pollock-Bar Ziv, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON 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 USA
"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 USA
"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 USA
"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 USA
"The Nature of the Transition After Lung Transplantation"

2001

Lynn Doering, RN, DNSc
UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, CA USA
"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 USA
"Anxiety Level Alterations and Interventions in Cardiac Transplant Candidates"

1999

Jeanne Salyer, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA USA
"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 USA
"Spirituality of the Heart Transplant Patient - A Grounded Theory Study"

1997

Eileen G. Collins, RN, PhD
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL USA
"The Impact of Heart Transplant on Spouses"

Deborah L. Williams, RN, MPH
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY USA
"Assessment of Outcome for HLHS Patients"

2019

Maria-Nieves Sanz, PhD
Berne University Hospital, Berne, Switzerland
"Role of Mitochondrial Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns (mtDAMPs) in Heart Transplantation with Donation after Circulatory Death"

2018

Ei Miyamoto, MD
Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Toronto, ON Canada
"Pre-Transplant Lung Allograft Cell Therapy with Expanded Recipient Regulatory T Cells: An Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion Study"

2017

Ramiro Fernandez, MD
Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
"Lung-Restricted Antibodies Lead to Lung Allograft Rejection"

ISHLT/Enduring Hearts Research Fellowship Grant

2016

Hsi-Min Hsiao, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO USA
"The role of CD11c+ cells in maintaining tolerance after lung transplantation"

Nikolaos Skartsis, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, CA USA
"The protective role of SPI6 in adoptively transferred regulatory T cells in transplantation"

Corey Tabit, MD, MBA, MPH
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
"Molecular Mechanisms of Angiodysplasia in Human Patients with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices"

2015

Jonathan Merola, MD
Yale University, New Haven, CT USA
"Elucidating Mechanisms of Alloantibody-Mediated Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: The Role of Class I and II MHC in Vascular Endothelial Cells"

2014

Charles Evans, MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
"The effect of mesenchymal stem cells in delayed donor criteria lung transplantation"

Christine Lin, MD
University of Colorado, Aurora, CO USA
"The Role of NK cells in antibody-mediated rejection and chronic allograft dysfunction"

Stijn Verleden, PhD
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
"Unraveling the pathophysiology of restrictive allograft syndrome after lung transplantation"

2013

Nikolaos Diakos, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
"Humans as a model organism to study medabolic changes in heart failure and myocardial recovery"

Raymond Givens, MD, PhD
Columbia University, New York, NY USA
"MicroRNA Profiling in Patients with Orthotopic Heart Transplant Rejection"

Pablo Sanchez, MD, PhD
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD USA
"Increasing the number and outcomes of lung transplants by using mesenchymal stem cells"

2012

Stephen C. Juvet, MD, FRCPC
University Health Network, Toronto, ON Canada
"Enhancing Regulatory T Cell Stability in the Presence of Allograft Inflammation and Ischemia-reperfusion Injury"

Maria Lucia L. Madariga, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
"Amelioration of the Deletrious Effects of Donor Brain Death by Cytokine Blockade and Ex Vivo Allograft Perfusion in Fully Mismatched Miniature Swine"

Jessica H. Spahn, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO USA
"Neutrophil Trafficking to the Lung During Pulmonary Ischemia-reperfusion Injury"

Konstantinos Malliaras, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA USA
"Percutaneous Catheter-guided Endomyocardial Delivery of Allogeneic Cardiospheres for Heart Regeneration in a Porcine Model of Chronic Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure"

2011

Alejandro Bribriesco, MD
Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
"The Role of CD8+ Regulatory T. Cells in Lung Allograft Acceptance"

Alexey Dashkevich, MD
University Frieburg, Germany
"Molecular and Gene Therapy for Heart Transplantation: Targeting of Lymph Angiogenesis as a New Immunomodulatory Approach"

Patricia E. de Almeida, DVM, MS, PhD
Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
"Patient Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Modeling Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy"

Tiago Machuca, MD, PhD
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
"Combining Anti-inflammatory and Pro-Tolerogenic Ex Vivo Treatment Using Interleukin-10 in a Pre-Clinical Model of Lung Transplantation"

2010

Esme Dijke, PhD
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
"To B or Not to B? - The Fate of B-cell Memory in B-cell Tolerance After ABO-incompatible Heart Transplantation in Infants"

Smita Sihag, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
"Gene Expression Signatures and Mechanistic Pathways of Tolerance and Rejection in Orthotopic Swine Lung Allografts"

Sumiharu Yamamoto, MD
Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
"The Role of Emergency Granulopoiesis in Linking Primary Graft Dysfunction to the Inhibition of Mouse Lung Allograft Acceptance"

Khurram Shahzad, MD
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY USA
"Immune Mechanisms of Graft Dysfunction after Heart Transplantation - Identification of Potential Biomarkers"

Nina Pilat, MSc, PhD
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
"The Role and Therapeutic Use of Regulatory T-cells in Chimerism-based Heart Graft Tolerance"

2009

Hua Shen, MD, PhD
Yale University, New Haven, CT USA
"Impact of CD14 and CD36 Signaling in Co-Stimulatory Blockade Extension of Allograft Survival"

Tobias Deuse, MD, PhD
University of Hamburg, Germany
"Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Ischemic Myocardium: Immunobiology of Stem Cells"

Masahiro Miyajima, MD, PhD
Harvard University, Boston, MA USA
"Role of T Regulatory Cells and Natural Killer Cells in the In Vivo Promotion of Coronary Allograft Vasculopathy"

Shin Hirayama, MD, PhD
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
"Role of Genetically Engineered IL-10 Producing T Regulatory Trl-like Cells in Immunoregulation After Lung Transplantation"

2008

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

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

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

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

Atsushi Shiozaki, MD, PhD
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
"Roles of XB130, a Novel 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 USA
"The Role of IL-6 in Ischemia Reperfusion Injury-Induced Abrogation of Mouse Lung Transplant Acceptance"

2007

Satish N. Nadig, MD
Beth-Israel Deaconess Med Ctr, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
"The Impact of Regulatory T cells on Transplant Arteriosclerosis in the Humanized Mouse Model"

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

Howard J. Huang, MD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO USA
"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 USA
"Cyclin A2 Mediated Cardiomyocyte Regeneration Therapy for Heart Failure"

Sonja Schrepfer, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
"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"

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 USA
"Generation and Characterization of a Heart Failure Mice Model Expressing a ZASP Cardiac Specific Isoform"

Heather E. Merry, MD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
"The Role of Innate Immunity in Lung Ischemia Reperfusion Injury"

Edward N. Seung, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
"Role of Effector T Cell Trafficking in Treg Function During Acute Lung Rejection"

Matthew J. Weiss, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
"Using Mixed Chimerism to Induce Tolerance in Porcine Lung Allograft Recipients"

2005

Ryan C. Fields, MD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO USA
"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 USA
"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 USA
"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 USA
"Assessment of Innate Immune Activation and Toll-Like Receptor Function Within Lung Transplant Patients"

Monika Zwierzchoniewska, MD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA
"Contribution of Neonatal Cardiac Myosin to Heart Allograft Survival"

2003

Felix Fernandez, MD
University of Washington School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO USA
"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 USA
"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 USA
"Ventricular Tissue Engineering: The Role of Acellular Matrix in Guided Cardiac Regeneration"

2001

Arnar Geirsson, MD
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT USA
"Characterization of Throphoblast Factor Suppressing MHC Class II Expression"

Matteo Vatta, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
"Dystrophon Disruption in End-Stage Cardiomyopathies"

2000

Richard S. Lee, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
"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 USA
"The Role of BCL-2 in the Oxidative Stress Signaling Pathways Following Cardiac Transplantation"

Christopher H. Wigfield, FRCS
Freeman Hospital / 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, BC Canada
"The Relationship Between VEGF Induced Vascular Permeability and Atherosclerosis: Implications for Transplant Vascular Disease"

George Juang, MD
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
"The Regulation of Potassium Channels Involved in Sudden Cardiac Death Failure"

Satoshi Saito, MD
University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA USA
"TGF-Beta Gene Therapy in Cardiac Allograft Rejection"

SivaSai S.R. Krovvidi, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis, MO USA
"Indirect Recognition of Donor HLA Class Peptides and its Role in the Pathogenesis of Bronshiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Recipients"

1998

Kelly SA Blair, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN USA
"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 USA
"The Role of Bone Marrow-Derived Elements in Allograft Rejection"

Christine L. Lau, MD
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
"The Role of Antibodies in Discordant Pulmonary Xenograft Rejection"

Scott D. Ross, MD
University of Virginia Health Science Center, Charlottesville, VA USA
"Living Related Pulmonary Lobar Transplantation"

Margaret L. Schwarze, MD, MPP
Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA USA
"The "Thymoheart" Allograft: Effects of Vascularized Donor Thymus on Chronic Rejection and Xenotransplantation"

1997

Owen T. Lawrence, MD
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA USA
"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 USA
"Correlating Donor-Specific Endothelial Cell Alloreactivity with Transplant Coronary Artery Disease"

Anne K. Raisanen-Sokolowski, MD
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA
"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 USA
"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 USA
"Porcine Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Cardiac Xenotransplantation"

2019

Michael Harhay, PhD, MPH, MS, M.Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA
"Lung Retransplantation Outcomes: Critical Periods after Primary Transplantation and Predictors of Survival"

In-Cheol Kim, MD
Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Daegu, South Korea
"Predictors and Clinical Outcome of Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Heart Transplant Recipients"

Anjan Tibrewala, MD
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL USA
"Risk of Renal Dysfunction following Heart Transplantation in Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients"

Jefferson Vieira, MD, MBA, PhD
Monte Klinikum Hospital, Fortaleza/CE, Brazil
"The Impact of Donor Cocaine Use on Short and Long-term Outcomes Following Heart Transplantation"

2018

Daniel Reichart, MD & Liesa Castro, MD
University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Development and Validation of a Risk Model for Primary Graft Failure After Heart Transplantation and Comparison to the RADIAL Risk Score"

Laneshia Tague, MD, MSCI
Washington University, St. Louis, MO USA
"Association between Allograft Ischemic Time and Adverse Outcomes Following Lung Transplantation"

Amanda Vest, MPH
Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA USA
"The Impact of Pre-Transplant Diabetes of Post-Transplant New Onset Diabetes on Outcomes After Heart Transplantation"

Michael Yaoyao Yin, MD
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT USA
"Predictors of Favorable Outcome in Patients Bridged to Transplant with Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices"

2017

Yuka Furuya, MD
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO USA
"Outcomes after Lung Transplantation in the Elderly"

Christian Heim, MD
University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
"CMV Donor Recipient Constellation in Adult Heart Transplantation: Risk Factor for Developing Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy?"

Monique Robinson, MBBS, MRCP, DPhil
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH USA
"Adults with Congenital Heart Disease: Who Benefits Most from Heart Transplantation? A Contemporary Analysis of the Clinical Outcomes for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease and the Development of a Risk Model Score"

Lorenzo Zaffiri, MD, PhD
Duke University, Durham, NC USA
"Predictors and Outcomes of Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder in Lung Transplant Recipients in the ISHLT Registry"

2016

Forum Kamdar, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH USA
"Contemporary Analysis of Heart Transplantation Outcomes in Patients with Neuromuscular Cardiomyopathies"

Marco Masetti, MD, PhD
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
"Dissecting Factors Influencing Late Post-Transplant Survival in Patients Transplanted With or Without LVAD According to Age and Comorbidities: A Step Forward to Optimize Patients’ Selection and Net Heart Transplant Benefit"

Joshua Mooney, MD
Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
"Development and Validation of a Survival Prediction Model for Elderly Lung Transplant Recipients"

Edit Nagy, MD, PhD
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
"Orthotopic Heart-Lung Transplantation: Outcomes and predictors of outcomes in patients with Eisenmenger syndrome, idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and in other congenital etiologies"

2015

Deipanjan Nandi, MD, MSc
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA USA
"Determination of donor characteristics with greatest impact on pediatric heart transplant outcomes and creation of a cumulative risk scoring algorithm for donor organ evaluation"

Evan Kransdorf, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic AZ, Phoenix, AZ USA
Manreet Kanwar, MD, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Natasha Loghmanpour, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA
"Development and Validation of a Risk Model For Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: Comparing a Dynamic Bayesian Network Model to a Traditional Cox Model"

Alexander Bernhardt, MD, PhD
University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Does donor age matter in lung transplantation"

Jong-Chan Youn, MD, PhD
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
"Predictors of de novo malignancy after heart transplantation"

2014

Miranda Paraskeva, MBBS
The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC Australia
"Outcomes of adolescent recipients following Lung transplantation"

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO USA
"Incidence and predictors of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome-free survival in lung transplant recipients"

Agnieszka Ciarka, MD, PhD
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
"Impact of age on prognosis of heart transplant patients bridged with left ventricular assist devices"

2013

Eugene DePasquale, MD
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
"Influence of Chronic Kidney Disease Stage on Patient Selection for Heart and Heart-Kidney Transplantation"

Aaron Healy, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
"Predictors of Post-Transplant Outcomes in Patients Bridged to Transplantation with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices - an Analysis of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Transplant Registry"

2012

Omar E. Wever-Pinzon, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA
"Impact of Recipient Age on Differential Causes of Heart Transplant Mortality. Is It Time to Personalize Post-Transplant Management?"

2011

2010

Kiran K. Khush, MD, MAS
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
"Does Sex Matter? Investigating the Impact of Donor and Recipient Sex on Outcomes After Heart Transplantation"

2008

Scott Halpern, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA
"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 USA
"Interactions Among Donor and Recipient Characteristics and Their Impact on Post-Transplant Survival"

2007