Grant Awards in April & October 2009
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Facts and Figures >>
| Principal Investigator | Project Title/Link |
| 1. Grant Awards in Cycle XXI and XXII | |
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1.1 10th Anniversary Clinical Transplantation Research Grant Award Competition - Cycle XXI |
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Dr. David S. Feldman Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, USA |
A Strategy of Using Molecular Mechanisms to Prolong the Lives of Heart Transplant Patients |
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Dr Thomas Fishbein Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA |
Innate Immunity of the Transplanted Human-small Intestine |
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Dr John Iafrate Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA |
Can Cells from a Transplant Recipient Integrate into a Transplanted Organ? |
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Dr Shaf Keshavjee University Health Network, Toronto, Canada |
Molecular Techniques to Improve Safety of Donor Lungs for Transplantation |
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Dr Michael Mengel University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada |
Integrins in Fibrosis and Atrophy in Human Renal Allografts |
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Dr Martina Sester University of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany |
Improving Management of Cytomegalovirus Complications after Transplantation |
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Dr Mark H. Siegelman University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA |
Use of a Unique Marker to Identify T Cells that Can Control Transplant Rejection |
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Dr David Wang Washington University, St. Louis, USA |
Identifying Viral Infections in Kidney Transplant Patients |
| 1.2 Conventional ROTRF Research Grants - Cycle XXII | |
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Dr Geetha Chalasani University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA |
How Antibodies from B Cells Lead to Rejection of Organ Transplants |
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Dr Erik Finger University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA |
Prevention of Transplant Rejection in Mice with Human Immune System |
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Dr David Mathes Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA |
Immune Tolerance to Face and Hand via Mixed Chimerism |
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Prof. Megan Sykes Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA |
Bone Marrow Transplantation with Regulatory Cells to Achieve Tolerance in Monkeys |
| 1.3 Clinical ROTRF Research Grants - Cycle XXII | |
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Dr Christopher Carman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA |
Understanding the Cell Biological Mechanisms of Transplant Rejection |
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Dr Atul Humar The University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada |
Cytomegalovirus: from Bench to Bedside |
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Dr John Iacomini Brigham and Women’s Hospital Transplantation Research Center, Boston, USA |
Development of Novel Tools to Diagnose Kidney Injury in Transplantation |
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Dr Scott Palmer Duke Medical Center, Durham, USA |
Role of Fibroblasts in Lung Dysfunction after Lung Transplantation |
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Prof. Karl Womer Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA |
The Role of Dendritic Cell Dysfunction in BK Nephropathy |
