Grant Awards in April & October 2010

* At the time of the last update of this homepage one grant award in each cycle XXIII and XXIV, respectively, was still pending due to administrative reasons and is not listed in the grant award overview.

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Principal Investigator Project Title/Link
1. Grant Awards in Cycle XXIII and XXIV  
1.1 Grant Awards in Cycle XXIII  
Dr Christian Brander
AIDS Research Institute Irsicaixa, Barcelona, Spain 		A Second Shot at HCV: The Impact of HLA Mismatch for Viral Control Post-OLT
Dr Mandy L. Ford
Emory University, Atlanta, USA 		Role of Memory T Cells in Transplant Rejection
Dr Thomas D. Friedrich
Albany Medical College, Albany, USA 		Preventing PVAN by Inhibiting Enzymes in the Host-cell DNA-damage Response
Dr Peter M.A. Hopkins
The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 		Non-cultured Bacteria Hold the Key to Development and Progression of Rejection in Lung Transplant Patients
Dr Benjamin Medoff
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA 		The Role of the Immune Protein TIM3 in Lung Transplantation
Dr Markus Selzner
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada 		Oxygenated ex vivo Liver Perfusion as a Novel Technique for Organ Storage, Assessment, and Repair
Prof. Jean-Paul P. Soulillou
ITERT-INSERM U643, Nantes, France 		The Role of B Cells in Patients Who Accept Their Kidney Graft without Any Treatment
   
1.2 Grant Awards in Cycle XXIV  
Dr Menna Clatworthy
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, UK 		Genetic Variation in FCGR2B and Renal Transplant Survival
Assoc. Prof. Maher Gandhi
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia 		Optimizing the Treatment of Lymphomas that Occur after Transplantation
Prof. Hermann-Josef Gröne
German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany 		New Treatment Option for Chronic Transplant Dysfunction
Dr Seth Karp
Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston, USA 		Identifying Transplantable Organs to Expand the Donor Pool
Prof. Rajiv Khanna
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Australia 		Virus-specific Killer T cells: A Double Edged Sword in Organ Transplantation
Dr Nazia Selzner
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada 		Improving Outcomes of Hepatitis C-infected Patients after Liver Transplantation
Prof. Thomas K. Wadell
University Health Network, Toronto, Canada 		Lung Progenitor Cells in Tissue Repair and Prevention of Allograft Rejection
Dr Emmanuel Zorn
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA 		Analyzing the Development and Function of “Non-specific” Antibodies in the Blood of Kidney Transplant Recipients