TTS congratulates Jeremy Chapman and Manikkam Suthanthiran, on being awarded the 2022 Medawar Prize. Both laureates will present, and receive their awards, during the TTS 2022 President's Plenary, being held on Thursday, September 14, 2022 in Buenos Aires. Click here to view past laureates >>
Professor Jan Lerut has dedicated his professional life to transplant surgery, particularly liver and hepatobiliary surgery. In 2005, he founded the Starzl Transplant center in Brussels, Belgium. Under Professor Lerut’s leadership, the center has performed more than 2500 liver transplants (1,500 adults and 1,000 children) in addition to 4,000 kidney transplants.
Professor Lerut will deliver his acceptance speech during the President's Plenary session on Wednesday, September 14 during our TTS 2022 Congress being held in Buenos Aires from September 10-14, 2022.
The role of role of sex and T cells in natural vs induced ABO antibody production in mice
Mentee: Adam Ibrahim, Canada
Mentor: Lori J. West, Canada
Establishing the most physiological perfusion milieu for normothermic ex vivo pancreas perfusion in porcine models: How far have we reached?
Mentee: Samrat Ray, Canada
Mentor: Trevor Reichman, Canada
New index for prediction of massive blood transfusion
Mentee: Blanca Otero Torrón, Spain
Mentor: Iago Justo, Spain
Preliminary results of the first clinical trial to prevent graft rejection in heart transplant children employing a cellular therapy with autologous Treg obtained from thymic tissue (thyTreg)
Mentee: Esther Bernaldo-de-Quirós, Spain
Mentor: Rafael Correa-Rocha, Spain
Single Cell Alloreactive TCR Repertoire Profiling
Mentee: Moumita Paul-Heng, Australia
Mentor: Alexandra Sharland, Australia
Factors determining the ex-vivo survival of human livers more than 1 week under normothermic conditions: understanding the requirements for long-term survival of organs
Mentee: Ngee-Soon Lau, Australia
Mentor: Carlo Pulitano, Australia
Expression of TNFR2 and CD29 define a highly suppressive subset of human CD8+ T regulatory cells
Mentee: Céline Sérazin, France
Mentor: Carole Guillonneau, France
Anti-C4d chimeric antigen receptor regulatory T cells suppressed allograft rejection in ABO-incompatible heart transplantation
Mentee: Gwangmin Lee, Korea
Mentor: Jaeseok Yang, Korea
Mono-maintenance therapy with anti-ICAM-1 monoclonal antibody induced long-term liver allograft survival in nonhuman primates
Mentee: Dongkyu Han, Republic of Korea
Mentor: Jaeseok Yang, Republic of Korea
Chronic antibody-mediated rejection in patients transplanted with renal allografts activates an inflammatory amplifying loop (IL-6+IL-17) when prolonged IL-6 secretion occurs
Mentee: Mantabya Singh, India
Mentor: Vivek B. Kute, India
Comparative study of medium term outcomes of ABO incompatible kidney transplantation with ABO compatible kidney transplantations
Mentee: Sushree Sashmita Das, India
Mentor: Deepak Shankar Ray, India
Impact of single centre 440 kidney exchange transplantation over 20 years to increase living donor pool in India: a cohort study
Mentee: Hari Shankar Meshram, India
Mentor: Vivek B. Kute, India
Impact of gender on kidney transplantation practices: A single centre report from largest public-sector transplant center of India
Mentee: Sanshriti Chauhan, India
Mentor: Himanshu Patel, India
Gender disparity- a battle ongoing
Mentee: Varsha Totadri, India
Mentor: Vasanthi Ramesh, India
Preliminary results of ex-vivo normothermic machine perfusion in deceased donor renal allograft transplantation – first clinical experience from Asia
Mentee : Devprakash Choudhary, India
Mentor: Ashish Sharma, India
Organ preserving cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a resource limited country to increase donor pool
Mentee: Mayur Patil, India
Mentor: Pankaj Shah, India
CYP3A5 polymorphism in renal transplantation: a key to personalized medicine
Mentee: Prasad Gurjar, India
Mentor: Amit Pasari, India
Gender disparities in renal replacement therapies in Colombia
Mentee: Laura Niño Torres, Colombia
Mentor: Fernando Giron, Colombia
Implementation of longitudinal portoplasty for hypoplasic portal veins in children with biliary atresia in a liver transplantation centre in Argentina
Mentee: Maria Julia Minetto, Argentina
Mentor: Marcelo Dip, Argentina
The potential role of HLA molecular mismatch in biopsy-proven rejection in pediatric liver transplantation
Mentee: Guido Trezeguet Renatti, Argentina
Mentor: Oscar Imventarza, Argentina
Mitochondrial complex V inhibition enhances human regulatory T cell suppressive function through the induction of immunosuppressive small extracellular vesicles
Mentee: Hisashi Hashimoto, United Kingdom
Mentor: Fadi Issa, United Kingdom
Donor dendritic cell depletion allows novel insights into the alloimmune response following murine composite tissue and skin transplantation
Mentee: Barbara Kern, Germany
Mentor: Stefan G. Tullius, United States
The role of co-expressing MHC class I molecules in pig endothelial cells: a case for HLA-E and HLA-G in xenotransplantation
Mentee: Arthur Cross-Najafi, United States
Mentor: Burcin Ekser, United States
PGC1alpha-mediated metabolic reprogramming facilitates M1 macrophage polarization during steatotic allograft dysfunction after liver transplantation
Mentee: Jiang Liu, People’s Republic of China
Mentor: Jiahong Dong, People’s Republic of China
The Molecular Nature of the Banff iIFTA Lesion
Mentee: Harry Robertson, Australia
Mentor: Natasha Rogers, Australia
Global and country-level growth in deceased organ donation over two decades
Yosef Mania, United Arab Emirates
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi
The first independent provincial OPO in China: Shanxi experience
Wenshi Jiang, People’s Republic of China
Shanxi provincial organ procurement and allocation center, Taiyuan, Shanxi
Organ Donation Following Medical Assistance in Dying: A Scoping Review
Amina Silva, Canada
Children's Hospital of Easter Ontario - Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario
Eliminating second warm ischemia in order to address the organ shortage, increase transplant longevity, and enable minimally invasive kidney transplantation: ex-vivo validation of a kidney anastomosis facilitation and cooling device developed via the Biodesign process
Keith S. Hansen, United States
University of California, San Francisco
mTOR inhibitors promote highly functional T cell immunity in kidney transplant recipients vaccinated against COVID-19
Griffith B. Perkins, Australia
University of Adelaide, Athelstone
Real-life tacrolimus levels are associated with biopsy-proven acute rejection after the first year post-kidney transplantation
Soufian Meziyerh, The Netherlands
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden
Investigating iron limitation in tolerance and regulatory T cells' dynamic iron requirements
Marie Sion, United Kingdom
University of Oxford, Oxford
Co-transplantation with adipose tissue-derived stem cells improves engraftment of transplanted hepatocytes
Hiroki Yamana, Japan
Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai
Every 2-month belatacept maintenance therapy in kidney transplant recipients: 3-year follow-up of a randomized, non-inferiority trial
Aileen C. Johnson, United States
Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Anti-CD40L antibody promotes the differentiation of Vy2+ regulatory gamma-delta T cells and prolongs the survival of skin allografts
Girdhari Lal, India
National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
The immunohistochemical expression of endothelial activation biomarkers is a potential tool to predict kidney allograft outcomes
Tainá V. Sandes-Freitas, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza
Rabies acquired through kidney transplantation in a child: a case report
Bassam Saeed, Syrian Arab Republic
Farah Association for Child with Kidney Disease, Damascus
High intrapatient variability tacrolimus´s levels is associated with post-transplant diabetes mellitus in kidney transplant, a Mexican cohort
Lucino Bahena Carrera, Mexico
Central Military Hospital, Mexico City