Nora Atallah and Professor Fadi Issa received a Mentee-Mentor Award, and Oliver McCallion, Sarah Short, Amy Cross and Helen Stark each won a Young Investigator Award.
TTS-FOCIS Basic and Translational Sciences Mentee-Mentor Award
Congratulations to DPhil student Nora Atallah and her supervisor Professor Issa who received the TTS-FOCIS Basic and Translational Sciences Mentee-Mentor Award. This award recognises the excellence of Nora's abstract titled 'Molecular and spatial profiling of GMP-Grade Tregs in kidney transplantation.'
The award celebrate the contributions of basic and translational science to the field of transplantation by recognising 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.
Young Investigator Award
The Young Investigator Awards are given to recipients who have submitted abstracts to the International Congress of The Transplantation Society and received the highest scores from an international panel of reviewers.
Congratulations to the award winners:
Oliver McCallion (pictured third from the left) 'Spatial transcriptomics of kidney biopsies following adoptive regulatory T cell transfer reveals a marginal zone B cell signature and novel intra-graft immune interactions' |
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Sarah Short (pictured third from the left) 'Spatial analysis of vascularised composite allografts reveals distinct transcriptional pathways and immune niche dynamics associated with rejection' |
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Amy Cross (pictured second from the left) 'Combination therapy of low dose regulatory T cells and low dose IL-2 for transplant tolerance' |
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Helen Stark (pictured far left) 'Using spatial proteomics to explore the alloresponse in abdominal wall and small bowel biopsies' |
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Further details about the conference and awards are available on the TTS 2024 website.