Past Career Development Award Recipients
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
"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, Australia
"Ex-Vivo Assessment of Pulmonary Xenografts"
2006
Dennis A. Wigle, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
"Targeted Lung Regeneration from an Understanding of Cell Specification in the Developing Lung"
2004
Alan M. Ramirez, MD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
"Airway Myofibroblast Differentiation in Obliterative Bronchiolitis"
2002
Anthony Azakie, MD
University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
"Bioengineering Cardiac Myoblasts"
2000
Gordon D. Wu, MD
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
"Mechanism of Graft Tissue Response to Alloanitbody Injury"