Grant Awards in October 2000

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Principal Investigator  Project Title/Link  
Dr. Maria-Luisa Alegre
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA  
Role of Costimulatory Molecules in Cardiac Allograft Rejection 
Dr. Simi Ali
University of Newcastle, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK  
Anti-Rejection Therapy: Modifying Intragraft Immunity by Specific Blockade of Th1 Cell Recruitment 
Dr. Michael Autieri
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA  
Characterization of Expression and Growth-Enhancing Properties of AIF-1 in VSMC of Injured Arteries 
Dr. Francois Denis
INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Canada 
Creating Artificial Immunoprivilege for Allograft Acceptance  
Prof. Peter Friend
Nuffield Department of Surgery, Oxford, UK  
Prolonged Preservation of Donor Livers Using Normothermic Perfusion  
Dr. Debra Hullett
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA  
Effect of Vitamin D on Renal Allograft Function 
Prof. Peter Lonai
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel  
Can ES Cells Form a Specific Complex Organ?  
Dr. Dianne B. McKay
Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA  
Alterations in IL-2R Signaling Induced by Anti-IL-2R Antibodies 
Dr. Simon C. Robson
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA  
Disordered Thromboregulation in Xenotransplantation 
Dr. Ana Maria Schor
University of Dundee, Dundee, UK  
The Control of Angiogenesis: Matrix Modulation of Cellular Responses to Cytokines 
Prof. Jean-Paul Soulillou
ITERT, Nantes, France  
Integrated TCR VβTranscriptome Analysis, a New Method to Follow Allo- or Auto-Immune Responses  
Dr. Adam Szewczyk
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland  
Improving the Preservation of Heart Transplants: the Role of Mitochondrial Ion Channels  
Dr. Jiangping Wu
Notre-Dame Hospital, Montreal, Canada  
Use of Proteosome Inhibitors to Control Rejection and to Induce Long-Term Tolerance of Organ Grafts