{"id":10557,"date":"2021-04-21T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/?page_id=10557"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:12:49","slug":"cdtrp-innovation-grant-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/cdtrp-innovation-grant-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Past CDTRP Innovation Grant Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since 2013, the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program (CDTRP) has supported research and innovation that addresses barriers within the fields of donation and transplantation, with the ultimate goal of advancing long-term health outcomes and quality of life for Canadian transplant patients.<\/h5>\n<\/div>
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See below past winners of the CDTRP Research Innovation Grant Competition<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/div>
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2025<\/td>CDTRP UHN Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Suze Kelly <\/td>Berkhout
\nFritsch<\/td>		Understanding the Day-to-Day Concessions, Trade-Offs, Compromises of Long-Term Immunosuppression through Arts-Based Qualitative Methods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025
\n<\/td>		CDTRP UdeM Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Marie-Chantal <\/td>Fortin<\/td>Kidney Transplant Stakeholders\u2019 Perspectives on the Future of Xenotransplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>CDTRP ATI Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Caroline<\/td>Tait<\/td>M\u00e9tis perceptions of organ donation and transplantation: steps to building a culture of donation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Istvan<\/td>Mucsi<\/td>Multimodal prehabilitation intervention for patients on in-center hemodialysis waitlisted for kidney transplantation\u202f \u2013 a feasibility pilot study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Sunita <\/td>Singh<\/td>Semaglutide for the Prevention Of Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus MRI Study \u2013 The SPOT-DM MRI Study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>Sonny
\nMypinder <\/td>		Thiara
\nSekhon<\/td>		Neurologic Biomarker Guided Prediction of Time to Death Determination in Donation after Circulatory Death Donors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>Daljeet<\/td>Chahal<\/td>Characterizing the Physiology of Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Circulatory Death and Normothermic Regional Perfusion: A Feasibility Study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>Vikas <\/td>Srinivasan Sridhar<\/td>Patient and Physician Perspectives on Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic therapies in Kidney Transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant sponsored by Takeda<\/td>Megan
\nIsaac Rosado<\/td>		Levings
\nSanchez<\/td>		Engineering next-generation CAR Tregs for precision immune tolerance in transplantation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>Addison Fund\/CDTRP Pediatric Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Manish<\/td>Sadarangani<\/td>Evaluation of vaccine uptake and associated factors influencing adherence to recommended immunization schedules among pediatric solid organ transplant recipients in BC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>CDTRP LHSC Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Zhu-Xu <\/td>Zhang<\/td>The potential of inhibiting multiple cell death pathways in transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>2024 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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2024<\/td>CDTRP UdeM Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Caroline <\/td>Lamarche<\/td>Tacrolimus-resistant regulatory T cells for adoptive immunotherapy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>CDTRP UdeM Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Micha\u00ebl <\/td>Chass\u00e9<\/td>From routinely collected medical data to donors: Canadian dOnation Monitoring & Alert SyStem Network (COMPASS) 2.0 University of British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>CDTRP ATI\/Paladin Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Darren <\/td>Freed<\/td>Endothelial glycocalyx integrity during heart procurement: impact of crystalloid solutions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant<\/td>William <\/td>Beaubien-Souligny<\/td>Second-generation tissue oximetry using Near-infrared spectroscopy for post-operative kidney transplant monitoring in adult recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Diana <\/td>Mager<\/td>Food Insecurity in Canadian households with children and youth who have undergone organ transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>Kathryn <\/td>Armstrong<\/td>A Family-Centered Initiative to Encourage Physical Activity in Children\/Youth Living with Solid Organ Transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>Tom <\/td>Blydt-Hansen<\/td>Cytokine and metabolomic urinary diagnostics to predict and monitor treatment responsiveness of acute rejection in kidney transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant sponsored by Takeda<\/td>Shaifali<\/td>Sandal<\/td>Digital storytelling as a relational health intervention for young adult kidney transplant recipients: A pilot project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/i><\/i><\/span>2023 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Innovation Competition<\/th>Funding partner<\/th>First Name<\/th>Last Name<\/th>Project Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2023<\/td>CDTRP UHN Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Mamatha <\/td>Bhat<\/td>Development of a Machine Learning Tool for Non-invasive Diagnosis of Liver Graft Pathology <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant <\/td>F\u00e9d\u00e9rick <\/td>D\u2019Aragon<\/td>CINERGY BC: The Calcineurin Inhibitors in NEuRoloGically deceased donors to decrease kidney delaYed graft function (CINERGY)-Pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT)-British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>Jagbir <\/td>Gill<\/td>A unique reciprocity-based strategy to improve living kidney donations in British Columbia: Focus group consultations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>CDTRP Big Gifts for Little Lives Research Innovation Grant <\/td>Michael <\/td>Khoury<\/td>Utilizing Exercise Cardiovascular and Skeletal Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Evaluate Factors Associated with Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>James <\/td>Lan<\/td>Accelerating the Translation of a Novel Luminex Anti-ABO Antibody Detection Technology to Expand the Use of ABO-Incompatible Transplantation in Canada <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant\u202f <\/td>Murdoch <\/td>Leeies<\/td>Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (OTDT) A curriculum in cultural competency for OTDT healthcare teams in Canada <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant\u202f <\/td>Maureen <\/td>Meade<\/td>Guidelines for Sequential Participation of Transplant Recipients into Donor Intervention Trials and Subsequent Transplant Trials<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>Christopher<\/td>Nguan<\/td>Machine learning enabled optimization of perioperative hemodynamics in renal transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>CDTRP SickKids Research Innovation Grant <\/td>Blayne Amir <\/td>Sayed<\/td>Reduction of proinflammatory damage to limit liver ischemia-reperfusion injury <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>Mypinder <\/td>Sekhon<\/td>Characterizing the cerebrovascular physiology of circulatory death during withdrawal of life sustaining therapies in humans <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>CDTRP ATI\/Paladin Research Innovation Grant <\/td>Simon <\/td>Urschel<\/td>Exploring the lived experience of pediatric heart transplantation from patient and family perspectives <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>CDTRP ATI\/Paladin Research Innovation Grant <\/td>Jason <\/td>Weatherald<\/td>Lung Transplantation Research Priority Setting Partnership<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>CDTRP LHSC Research Innovation Grant <\/td>Charles
\nMarat <\/td>		Weijer
\nSlessarev <\/td>		eeding an international collaborative to produce guidelines for the conduct of randomized controlled trials of organ donor interventions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>2022 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Innovation competition<\/th>Funding partner<\/th>First Name<\/th>Last Name<\/th>Project title <\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2022<\/td>CDTRP UHN Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Natasha<\/td>Aleksova<\/td>A living systematic review and rapid recommendations of the effect of COVID-19 vaccination strategies on outcomes in solid organ transplant recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grant <\/td>Kathryn<\/td>Armstrong<\/td>Virtual reality and gameplay as a model for exercise rehabilitation in pediatric solid organ transplant patients. A patient and family led initiative\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022 <\/td>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Suze<\/td>Berkhout<\/td>Temporalities of Cure:\u00a0 A qualitative study of psychosocial support needs and long-term survivorship in liver transplantation\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Marcelo<\/td>Cypel<\/td>Ex-vivo immuno-cloaking of donor lungs to prevent transplant rejection: a proof of concept study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>CDTRP Ontario Health (Trillium Gift of Life Network) Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Istvan<\/td>Mucsi<\/td>Confirming the validity of the PROMIS physical function item bank in kidney transplant candidates and recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>CDTRP UdeM Research Innovation Grant <\/td>Marie-Pascale<\/td>Pomey<\/td>The TRANSPLANT-ACTION CONNECTED Graft program (TAC-Graft program)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Shaifali<\/td>Sandal<\/td>Experiencing graft failure and exploring re-transplantation: a patient perspective\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Sunita<\/td>Singh<\/td>The efficacy, mechanisms and safety of SGLT2i and GLP1RA combination therapy in kidney transplant recipients: The HALLMARK study\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>2021 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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2021<\/td>CDTRP UdeM Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Chantal <\/td>B\u00e9meur<\/td>Optimizing post-liver transplantation outcomes: targeting the muscle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021 <\/td>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Amine<\/td>Benmassaoud<\/td>Does a 4-week prehabilitation program improve frailty in patients with cirrhosis undergoing liver transplantation? A feasibility trial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Tom <\/td>Blydt-Hansen<\/td>Predictors and Patient Experiences that Enable Access to Care of Post-Traumatic Stress in Pediatric Solid OrganTransplant Recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC \/ CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>Caigan <\/td>Du<\/td>Evaluation of propyl gallate for limitation of cold ischemic injury in organ preservation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>Transplant Research Foundation of BC \/ CDTRP Venture Grant<\/td>David<\/td>Harriman <\/td>Urine Microbiome Profiling in Kidney Transplant Recipients in Health and Disease<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Corinne
\nSteven<\/td>		A. Hoesli
\nParaskevas<\/td>		Making every pancreatic islet count \u2013 engineering a vascularized transplantation system to treat type 1 diabetes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Tania
\nNicholas <\/td>		Janaudis-Ferreira
\nBourgeois<\/td>		Virtual home-based pre-habilitation program in lung transplant candidates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>CDTRP UHN Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Ana<\/td>Konvalinka<\/td>Investigating Kidney Tissue Responses to Donor Specific Antibodies in Antibody Mediated Rejection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Michael <\/td>Khoury<\/td>The MedBIKE\u2122: Evaluating a Novel Telemedicine and Video Game-Linked Exercise Platform for Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Amanda <\/td>Vinson <\/td>Identifying Sex-Based Disparities in Referral for Transplant, Activation on the Waitlist and Kidney Transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>CDTRP TGLN Ontario Health Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Charles <\/td>Weijer<\/td>Pilot Study to Explore Ethical Issues and Stakeholder Trust in the Use of Normothermic Regional Perfusion in Organ Donation in Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>CDTRP UHN Research Innovation Grant<\/td>Kirsten <\/td>Wentlandt<\/td>Feasibility of Integrating Patient Reported Outcome Measures and Activity Metrics in a Palliative Care Transplant Program to Improve Function Pre- and Post-Lung Transplant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>2019 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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2019<\/td>Fran\u00e7ois Martin<\/td>Carrier<\/td>Effects of intraoperative hemodynamic management on postoperative outcomes in liver transplantation: a
\nmulticentre prospective observational cohort study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Cecilia
\nShannon
\nBrooke<\/td>		Chaparro
\nWright
\nStewart<\/td>		MINDFUL: Mental health IN aDults with cystic Fibrosis who Undergo Lung transplant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Jennifer<\/td>Conway<\/td>Ex Situ Heart Perfusion for Optimization of Pediatric Donor Organ Utilization: Attitudes and Perceptions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Esm\u00e9<\/td>Dijke<\/td>Into the Unknown: Defining the Optimal Cryopreservation Conditions for Therapeutic Thymic Regulatory T Cells<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Jennifer
\nNazia<\/td>		Flemming
\nSelzner<\/td>		Prevalence and Incidence of liver disease and access to liver transplant and living liver donation in ethno-racial communities (ACCESS-LT)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Lakshman<\/td>Gunaratnam<\/td>Therapeutic use of recombinant AIM to improve renal transplant outcomes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Sasan<\/td>Hosseini-Moghaddam<\/td>Mycobacterial Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients (SOTRs) in Ontario from 2002 to 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Golnaz
\nSiba<\/td>		Karoubi
\nHaykal<\/td>		Repopulation of Long Segment Tracheal Allografts for Transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Caroline<\/td>Lamarche<\/td>BK-specific T-cell immunotherapy; moving towards a clinical trial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Megan<\/td>Levings<\/td>Development and validation of a novel assay to quantify alloantigen specific T cells<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Bruce<\/td>McManus<\/td>Identification of novel cell-specific immunosuppressive therapies from high resolution single-cell RNA sequencing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Vicky<\/td>Ng<\/td>Long-Term Outcomes and Health Status of Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients Off Immunosuppression \u2013
\nReport from a North American Multi Center Registry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Vicky
\nBinita<\/td>		Ng
\nKamath<\/td>		A Novel Ultrasound-based Tool to Assess Muscle Mass in Children With and Without Liver Disease \u2013 A Pilot
\nFeasibility Study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Ian<\/td>Rogers<\/td>Building Matched Organs using Patient-derived Stem Cells<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Dmitry<\/td>Rozenberg<\/td>Feasibility of a Home-Based Exercise Program in Liver and Lung Transplant Recipients for Management of Post-Transplant Metabolic Syndrome: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Scott<\/td>Tebbutt<\/td>Investigating regulatory T cell gene signature in blood during acute cardiac transplant rejection.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Suzanne<\/td>Vercauteren<\/td>Evaluating the Heterogeneity of T Cell Phenotypes in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients: Associations with Patient and Transplant Factors, and Alloimmune Activity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Darren<\/td>Yuen<\/td>Nanobubbles: a new way to non-invasively measure donor kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>2018 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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2018<\/td>Samantha J<\/td>Anthony<\/td>inSight: Creation of an Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measure Platform in Pediatric Transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Mamatha<\/td>Bhat<\/td>Development and Validation of a Practical Web-based Risk Calculator for Post-Transplant Diabetes using Machine learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Tom<\/td>Blydt-Hansen<\/td>Investigating serum immunometabolomic profiles associated with pediatric kidney and heart transplant alloimmune outcomes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Emmanuelle<\/td>Brochiero<\/td>From the donor to the recipient: Identification of novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets associated with primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Michael<\/td>Chass\u00e9<\/td>Early detection of potential organ donors using machine learning algorithms compared to traditional epidemiological approaches: Phase 1 of the COMPASS Network<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Bethany<\/td>Foster<\/td>Associations between Sex Hormone Levels and Immune Profiles among Kidney Transplant Recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Anne<\/td>Halpin<\/td>Knowing the unknown: adding an HLA-specific memory B cell assay to the toolbox.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Tania
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\nMarie-Chantal<\/td>		Janaudis-Ferreira
\nFortin<\/td>		Acceptability and feasibility of the Kidney Transplant Physical Activity and Social Club (KEeP ACTIVe Club)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Deepali<\/td>Kumar<\/td>Ex-vivo Delivery of Rituximab to Prevent PTLD in EBV mismatch Lung Transplant Recipients: A Pilot Trial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Mingyao<\/td>Liu<\/td>Cystic fibrosis and donor specific injuries in human lung transplants: a comprehensive bioinformatics and systems biology approach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Diana<\/td>Mager<\/td>Biology of skeletal muscle and sarcopenia in children with ESLD awaiting LTx<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Maureen<\/td>Meade<\/td>Research Consent in Donation Trials: A Grounded Theory Pilot Study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Allan<\/td>Murray<\/td>Apelin receptor signaling and lymphocyte function in allograft rejection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Markus<\/td>Selzner<\/td>Indocyanine Green (ICG) Fluorescence imaging during Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion (NEVLP) in swine model of Donation after Cardio-circulatory Death (DCD)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Shaifali<\/td>Sandal<\/td>Health delivery systems, Health professionals and barriers to living donor kidney transplantation across Canada: a comparative and mixed methods study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Jason<\/td>Shahin<\/td>Is the process of end of life care different for DCD donors vs. non-donors? An exploration of observational data on the process of withdrawal of life sustaining therapies in the intensive care unit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>James<\/td>Shapiro<\/td>Gene correction in human induced pluripotent stem cells from type-1 diabetic patients by CRISPR\/Cas9 genome editing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Karina
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\nCatherine<\/td>		Top
\nSadarangani
\nBurton<\/td>		Optimizing varicella immunization in children and youth with solid organ transplants to prevent disease and improve long-term health<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2017<\/td>Sunita<\/td>Mathur<\/td>Exploring user-centred design features for e-health applications to support physical activity behaviors in solid organ transplant recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Marie-Jos\u00e9e<\/td>H\u00e9bert<\/td>Shedding light on Apoptotic exosome like vesicles induced by photopheresis in treatment of
\nchronic graft-versus-host-disease.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Gonzalo<\/td>Sapisochin<\/td>Relationship between 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography\/magnetic resonance imaging patterns and circulating tumor DNA to predict hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Sonny<\/td>Dhanani<\/td>Exploration of the Impact of Donor Hemodynamics during Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death on Patient and Graft Outcomes in Kidney Recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Alp<\/td>Sener<\/td>The effect of a mitochondria targeting H2S donor molecules in euthermic (21\u00b0C) organ preservation using existing organ preservation solutions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Kevin<\/td>Wen<\/td>Phased Implementation for Feasibility and Evaluation of an Adherence Monitoring, Feedback, and Individualized Intervention System for Improving Immunosuppression Medication Adherence in Kidney Transplant Recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Puneeta<\/td>Tandon<\/td>A personalized online pre-habilitation program to improve health outcomes in patients awaiting liver transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Benjamin<\/td>Adam<\/td>The molecular phenotype of polyomarivus nephropathy and its distinction from T-cell mediated rejection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Steven<\/td>Greenway<\/td>Mechanism of Microbiome-Mediated Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Mycophenolate Mofetil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Aldo<\/td>Montano-Loza<\/td>A prospective, longitudinal evaluation of skeletal muscle for prognosis of patients with cirrhosis evaluated for liver transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Tereza<\/td>Martinu<\/td>Targeting the renin-angiotensin system to monitor and treat fibrosis in chronic lung allograft dysfunction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>2016 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Innovation Competition<\/th>First Name<\/th>Last Name<\/th>Grant Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2016<\/td>Lakshman<\/td>Gunaratnam<\/td>Kidney Injury Molecule-1 (KIM-1) gene polymorphisms and risk of delayed graft function after deceased donor kidney transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Andrzej<\/td>Chruscinski<\/td>Non-HLA Antibodies in Heart Transplantation: Profiling with Antigen Microarrays<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Steven<\/td>Paraskevas<\/td>Circulating extracellular vesicles as markers of beta-cell stress and injury after islet transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Jennifer<\/td>Reed<\/td>Cardiovascular Prehabilitation in Patients Awaiting Heart Transplantation - Addressing Clinical Needs (PREHAB HTx Study)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Sharon<\/td>Chih<\/td>Biomarker Discovery for Validation in Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: BIOCAV pilot study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Jayan<\/td>Nagendran<\/td>Molecular quantification of tissue injury and repair pre, during, and post ex-vivo perfusion of swine lung transplants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Faisal<\/td>Khan<\/td>Gene Variants Influencing Complement-Dependent Cytotoxicity (CDC) and Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity (ADSS) as Predictors of Antibody Mediated Rejection (AMR) after Kidney Transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Simon<\/td>Urschel<\/td>Aerobic capacity, muscle strength, and muscle endurance after pediatric transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Constantine <\/td>Karvellas<\/td>Prognostic impact of Liver Fatty Acid Binding Protein in Acute Liver Failure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Istvan<\/td>Mucsi<\/td>Psychosocial and Ethno-Cultural Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation- Qualitative Study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Mamatha<\/td>Bhat<\/td>Characterization of the Intestinal Microbiome and its Role in Diabetes after Transplantation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>H\u00e9lo\u00efse<\/td>Cardinal<\/td>Accepting or refusing a kidney from a deceased donor: can mathematical optimization and machine learning help shared decisionmaking to make the right choice for each individual patient?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Emmanuelle<\/td>Brochiero<\/td>Identification of novel markers and therapeutic targets associated with ischemia\/reperfusion injury and primary graft dysfunction in lung transplants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois<\/td>Cailhier<\/td>Deciphering the monocyte and immune activation in brain dead donors: A role for MFG-E8?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Samantha<\/td>Anthony<\/td>MEASURING WHAT MATTERS: Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes into Clinical Practice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>2015 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Innovation competition<\/th>First Name<\/th>Last Name<\/th>Grant title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2015<\/td>Simon<\/td>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dufresne<\/td>A comprehensive model to predict the risk of invasive aspergillosis after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>Todd<\/td>Lowary<\/td>\u201cEvaluation of a glyconanotechnology tool for personalized ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>Banus<\/td>Sis<\/td>A 34-gene signature diagnostic test to determine the individualized likelihood of antibody-mediated rejection and kidney transplant failure using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded biopsy samples: a multicenter external validation study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>Lori<\/td>West<\/td>Characterization of Donor Specific Immune Reactivity in Pediatric Heart Transplant: Impact of Thymectomy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>Markus<\/td>Selzner<\/td>Rocuronium and Midazolam Metabolomics for the Assessment of Liver Grafts during Subnormothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>Jos\u00e9e<\/td>Bouchard<\/td>Brain-dead donor management goals, donor biomarkers and the development of delayed graft function in kidney transplant patients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>2014 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Innovation competition<\/th>First Name<\/th>Last Name<\/th>Grant Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2014<\/td>Joseph<\/td>Kim<\/td>\u201cURINARY MARKERS OF INTRA-RENAL RAS ACTIVITY IN RENAL ALLOGRAFT RECIPIENTS\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>Jean-S\u00e9bastien<\/td>Delisle<\/td>\u201cOptimizing autologous anti-EBV T-cell lines from seronegative patients for adoptive immunotherapy; a pre-clinical study\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>Nowell<\/td>Fine<\/td>Detection of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
\nUsing Myocardial Contrast Perfusion Imaging: A Multicenter Study in Adult and Pediatric
\nTransplant Recipients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>Giada<\/td>Sebastiani<\/td>Non-invasive diagnosis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in liver transplant recipients: a prospective, longitudinal study employing serum citokeratin 18 and transient elastography<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10557","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10557"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33615,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10557\/revisions\/33615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}