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