2022 International Transplantation Science Mentee-Mentor Awards

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