Hannah Lovell, DNP

University Health Transplant Institute

Stratifying Relapse Risk and Optimizing Psychosocial Support in the Era of Early Liver Transplantation for Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis

Rashikh A. Choudhury, MD

University of Colorado Hospital

Evaluating pancreas and islet grafts following donation after circulatory death (DCD) using static cold storage, normothermic regional perfusion, and normothermic machine perfusion: A multicenter trial

Kazunari Sasaki, MD

Stanford University

Value-Based Acceptance and Escalation Policy for DCD Organ Offers Using a Machine-Learning Expiration Calculator and Cost Optimization

Collaborator: Itai Ashlagi, PhD

Joey Lockhart, PhD

Northwestern University

Defining the Impact of HLA-DQ versus HLA-DR on Alloreactive CD4+ T Cell Differentiation

Katherine L. Krupp, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Engineering regulatory B cells to promote graft-specific tolerance following transplant

Nader Abraham, MBBS

Duke University

Active functional assessment of DCD kidneys during 20°C bloodless oxygenated machine perfusion

Alban Longchamp, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Mitigating Ischemia-Reperfusion to Augment the Use of Aged Kidneys (MIRACLE-K)

Carolyn Smullin, MD

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Development of an Oxygenated Hypothermic Machine Perfusion Model to Evaluate Human Intestine Graft Viability

Ana Carolina de Avila, MD

University Health Network

Mitochondrial transplantation for Pulmonary Fibrosis

Wali Rashad Johnson, MD, MPH

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Health-related social needs driving disparities in early kidney transplant outcomes

ASTS gratefully acknowledges Takeda as our funding partner for this award in 2026.

Stefany Barriga, MSN, ACNP-AG, RN

University of California San Francisco

Use of Large Language Models to Review Inpatient Referrals for Patients undergoing Liver Transplant Evaluation under Limited Sobriety Pathway

ASTS gratefully acknowledges Veloxis as our funding partner for this award in 2026.

Nicholas Parrish, MD, PhD

Duke University Medical Center

Variation in human-porcine cellular xenorecognition and its genetic basis

ASTS gratefully acknowledges Veloxis as our funding partner for this award in 2026.

Sergio Duarte, PhD

University of Florida Department of Surgery

ASTS gratefully acknowledges Transmedics as our funding partner for this award in 2026.

Casey Ward, MD

California Pacific Medical Center

ASTS gratefully acknowledges Transmedics as our funding partner for this award in 2026.

Wesley Blashka

Medical College of Wisconsin

Hannah Futeran

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Ibrahim Khalil

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Yuchen Lu

University of Rochester School of Medicine

Alekhya Madisetty

Mayo Clinic Arizona

Oliver Perrine

University of Pennsylvania

Benjamin Wick

University of Texas Medical Branch