Grant Awards in April 2005

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Principal Investigator Project Title/Link
1. Conventional Research Grants  
Dr. Eleanor Bolton
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 		The Role of B Lymphocytes in Chronic Transplant Rejection
Dr. Peter Cowan
St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia 		Promoting the Growth of New Blood Vessels to Improve the Survival of Pancreatic Islet Grafts
Dr. Lina Lu
University of Pittsburgh, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, USA 		Cell-Based Capsulation: A Novel Approach for Long-Term Islet Allograft Survival
Prof. Frank Rösl
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany 		Reducing Skin Cancer in Organ-Transplanted Persons
Dr. Alexandra F. Sharland
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 		Pig Molecules which Activate Human Lymphocytes
Prof. Joost van Meerwijk
INSERM U563, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse, France 		Development of a Cell-Based Therapy against Short-Term and Long-Term Graft Rejection
Dr. Bernard Vanhove
ITERT, CHU Hotel Dieu, Nantes, France 		Immunosuppression and Tolerance Induction by Selective Inhibition of CD28
   
2. Clinical Research Grants  
Dr. Jan Anthoine Bruijn
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 		Prognostic Markers in Protocolized Renal Allograft Biopsies
Dr. Luis A. Fernandez
University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, USA 		Characterization of Human Islet from Non-Heart Beating Donors
Dr. Alvaro Pacheco-Silva
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 		Detection and Prevention of Patients with Chronic Allograft Nephropathy