Senior Achievement Award Jon A. Kobashigawa, MD Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute Mentoring Award Christin Rogers Marks, PharmD BCPS FAST FCCP Massachusetts General Hospital Clinician of Distinction Award Charlie Thomas, LCSW ACSW FNKF Banner University Medical Center Phoenix Basic Science Established Investigator Award David M. Rothstein, MD Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute Clinical Science Established Investigator […]
2019 Research Grants
AST Research Network/Sanofi Basic Science Fellowship Research Grant Arun Cumpelik, MD, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine Research Title: The Role of Decay Accelerating Factor (DAF) on Germinal Center B-Cells in Humoral Allo-immunity AST Research Network/Bristol-Myers Squibb Translational Science Faculty Development Research Grant Mamatha Bhat, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC University Health Network and University of […]
2018 Research Grants
AST Faculty and Fellowship Grants $570,000 in grants were awarded in 2018. Ibrahim Batal, MD Columbia University Research Title: The Clinicopathologic Significance of Graft Dendritic Cells and Ischemia-reperfusion Injury in Kidney Allograft Inflammation and Outcome Matthew Kadatz, MD, FRCPC University of British Columbia Research Title: Removing cost as a barrier to performance of high-risk kidney transplants: […]
2017 Research Grants
In 2017, the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and the Transplantation and Immunology Research Network (TIRN) facilitated providing $460,000 in research money to investigators in the field of transplantation. TIRN provides both career development grants for young investigators and research funding in specific areas along with outside organizations. AST TIRN/Astellas Clinical Science Faculty Development Research […]
2016 Research Grants
In 2016, the AST Transplantation Immunology Research Network (TIRN) facilitated the allocation of over 1.3 million dollars in research funding to investigators in transplantation. In addition to the annual career development grants that AST has awarded for over 20 years, the AST TIRN has aligned with outside organizations to offer research funding in specific areas of study.
