29th International Congress of The Transplantation Society (TTS 2022) | Buenos Aires - Argentina | September 10-14, 2022
  • AWARD WINNERS

  • AWARD WINNERS

2022 Medawar Prize Winners

The Medawar Prize, named after TTS co-founder Sir Peter Medawar, is recognized as the world's highest dedicated award for the most outstanding contributions in the field of transplantation. The Medawar Prize has been awarded at each of the Society's biennial Congresses since 1990.

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 >>

2022 TTS Thomas Starzl Innovation Award Recipient

Professor Jan Paul Marthe Lerut

Belgium
The TTS Starzl Innovation Award is named after Tom Starzl who was best known for his contributions to the field of organ transplantation, and often referred to as the “father of transplantation”. The award recognizes individuals who, though advanced and original work, have contributed significantly to transplantation, thereby reflecting the spirit pioneered by Dr. Starzl.

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.

TTS 2022 “Living Legends” Award Recipients

In recognition of members who have contributed significantly to the field, this year TTS is recognizing as “Living Legends” members with extraordinary reputations that have contributed tremendously to the field either through research, innovation or mentorship.

International

David K.C. Cooper

USA

Rafael Matesanz

Spain

Randall E. Morris

USA

Latin America

Josefina Alberú

Mexico

Eduardo Santiago-Delpin

Puerto Rico

Federico Villamil

Argentina

Argentina

Domingo Casadei

Argentina

Eduardo de Santibañes

Argentina

Félix Cantarovich

Argentina

TTS Recognition Award Winners

These awards recognize individuals who have made a major international impact in the field of transplantation. The award winners will be honored during the President's Plenary session on Wednesday, September 14, 2022.

Professor Angus W. Thomson

USA
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT TRANSPLANTATION SCIENCE (BASIC)

Professor Denis Glotz

France
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT TRANSPLANTATION SCIENCE (CLINICAL)

Professor Elaine Reed

USA
MENTORSHIP OR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN TRANSPLANTATION

Professor Vivek Kute

India
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN TRANSPLANTATION SCIENCE (DEVELOPING COUNTRY)

Women in Transplantation Awards

The Women in Transplantation Steering Committee have created the Woman Leader in Transplantation Award to recognize a woman who has helped further the field of transplantation through research, policies, leadership, initiatives or other regarded contributions. The Unsung Hero Award will be presented to one woman who has had an extraordinary impact in transplantation through community service, volunteering, mentorship or other community based activity. Both Awards are presented during the presidential address at the TTS International Congress.

Gomathy Narasimhan

WOMAN LEADER IN TRANSPLANTATION AWARD

Qizhi Tang

WOMAN LEADER IN TRANSPLANTATION AWARD

Christine Falk

UNSUNG HERO AWARD

2022 International Transplantation Science Mentee-Mentor Awards

The Transplantation Society (TTS) in collaboration with its Affiliated Societies celebrates the contributions of basic and translational science to the field of transplantation by recognizing the efforts of basic scientists who have advanced our understanding of transplant science/immunobiology and/or treatment of transplant recipients, and the young investigators who will be the future leaders in transplantation.

TTS-CST International Mentee-Mentor Award

The Canadian Society of Transplantation

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

TTS-SMT International Mentee-Mentor Award

Sociedad Madrileña de Trasplantes

New index for prediction of massive blood transfusion
Mentee: Blanca Otero Torrón, Spain
Mentor: Iago Justo, Spain

TTS-SET International Mentee-Mentor Award 

Sociedad Española de Trasplante

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

TTS-TSANZ International Mentee-Mentor Award

Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand

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

TTS-SFT International Mentee-Mentor Award

Société Francophone de Transplantation

Expression of TNFR2 and CD29 define a highly suppressive subset of human CD8+ T regulatory cells
Mentee: Céline Sérazin, France
Mentor: Carole Guillonneau, France

TTS-KST International Mentee-Mentor Award

Korean Society for Transplantation

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

TTS-ISOT La Renon International Mentee-Mentor Award

Indian Society for Organ Donation

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

TTS-STALyC International Mentee-Mentor Award

Sociedad de Trasplantes de América Latina y el Caribe

Gender disparities in renal replacement therapies in Colombia
Mentee: Laura Niño Torres, Colombia
Mentor: Fernando Giron, Colombia

TTS-SAT International Mentee-Mentor Award

Sociedad Argentina de Trasplantes

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

TTS International Mentee-Mentor Award

The Transplantation Society

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

2022 TTS Scientific Congress Awards

This year, the 2022 TTS Scientific Congress Awards were offered in 3 categories.

Allied Healthcare Professional Award

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

Young Investigator Award

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

Emerging Economy Nation Award

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


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