2024 AWARD RECIPIENTS

• CST Lifetime Achievement Award - Dr. Atul Humar
• CST Excellence in Leadership Award - Dr. Joseph Kim
• CST Research Excellence Award - Not awarded in 2024
• CST Education and Teaching Excellence Award - Dr. Shahid Husain
• CST Clinician Recognition Award - Dr. Nazia Selzner
• Dr. Joel D. Cooper Lung Transplantation Award - Not awarded in 2024

• CST-T3 Competition
  
  • Top Finalist - Joanna Dionne
  • Second and Third Finalists - Lea Harper and Kathryn Haubrich

• CST Pediatric Group - Pediatric Transplant Trainee Research
  • Best Pediatric Transplant Abstract, Clinical Science - Camille Laroche
  • Best Pediatric Transplant Abstract, Basic Science - Tate Erickson

• CST Research Training Awards
  
  • Sumiha Karunagaran
  • David Sebben
  • Robert Wright
• Top Abstract Awards
  
  • Matthanja Bieze
  • Francisco Calderon Novoa
  • Vanessa Silva e Silva
• CST-CDTRP Top Lay Summaries
  
  • Sarjana Alam
  • Olivia Ganescu
  • Seychelle Yohanna
• Clinical and Translational Research Awards in Transplant Infectious Diseases
  
  • Not awarded in 2024
• NAHP Top Abstract Award
  
  • Not awarded in 2024

• TTS-CST International Transplantation Science Mentee-Mentor Award
  • Mentee: Tate Erickson, Mentor: Lori West
    • ABO-incompatible transplantation following enzymatic A-antigen removal in a mouse model: A-antigen re-expression and prevention of early antibody-mediated rejection
  • Mentee: Kieran Manion, Mentor: Ana Konvalinka
    • Graft protein shows a distinct signature in donor-specific antibody positive kidney transplant recipients with antibody-mediated rejection

Congratulations!

CST Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Atul Humar

Awarded to a well established transplant physician surgeon or scientist for their internationally recognized work in the field of transplantation and participation in the development of transplantation activities in Canada.

Dr. Joel D. Cooper Lung Transplantation Award

To recognize a lung transplant professional who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of lung transplantation in Canada either through innovation, outstanding clinical care, or scientific achievement.

CST Research Excellence Award

In recognition of research achievement and excellence in the field of transplantation.

CST Education and Teaching Excellence Award 

Ms. Shahid Husain

In recognition of exemplary commitment to the CST mission through excellence in teaching and educational program development, as part of the care of Canadian organ transplant patients.

CST Excellence in Leadership Award

Dr. Joseph Kim

To recognize demonstrated exemplary commitment to the CST mission through excellence in leadership benefiting Canadian organ transplant patients.

CST Clinician Recognition Award

Dr. Nazia Selzner

To recognize demonstrated exemplary commitment to the CST mission through excellence in front-line clinical innovation and program development, humanitarianism, and/or education as part of the direct care of Canadian organ transplant patients.

CST-T3 Competition

Joanna Dionne

Title: ALERT: Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Evaluation and Research Taskforce

Lea Harper

Title: Smoking after lung transplantation: A provincial prospective interventional study and quality improvement initiative

Kathryn Haubrich

Title: Transplant Text Messaging Service: Improving health knowledge and confidence in youth and young adult transplant recipients

CST Pediatric Group, Pediatric Transplant Trainee Research

Best Pediatric Transplant Abstract, Clinical Science 

Camille Laroche

Title: Urinary IL-6 : One Step Closer to Resistant Rejection Identification

Best Pediatric Transplant Abstract, Basic Science 

Tate Erickson

Title: ABO-incompatible heart transplantation following enzymatic A-antigen removal in a mouse model: A-antigen re-expression and prevention of early antibody-mediated rejection

CST Research Training Awards

Sumiha Karunagaran

Title: Recipient B cell-dependent pathways driving chronic lung allograft rejection

David Sebben

Title: Mechanisms of Club Cell Apoptosis in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction

Robert Wright

Title: Regulatory T cell immunoengineering to promote transplantation tolerance

Top Abstract Awards

Matthanja Bieze

Title: Intraoperative hypotension during critical phases of liver transplantation influences acute kidney injury: a retrospective cohort study

Francisco Calderon Novoa

Title: Ex vivo delivery of autologous regulatory T cells during normothermic machine perfusion in porcine kidney transplantation

Vanessa Silva e Silva

Title: Compassion Fatigue, Moral Distress, and Burnout Among Organ Donation Coordinators in Canada: Results from a National Mixed-Methods Study

CST-CDTRP Top Lay Summaries

Sarjana Alam

Title: Defining optimal cryopreservation conditions to develop an improved regulatory T cell cryopreservation protocol for tolerogenic cell therapy in transplantation

Olivia Ganescu

Title: Liver transplantation outcomes within the practice of medical assistance in dying (MAiD): a retrospective cohort study

Seychelle Yohanna

Title: Consensus Conference to Define a High-Quality Living Kidney Donor Evaluation

Clinical and Translational Research Awards in Transplant Infectious Diseases

Not awarded for 2024 

NAHP Top Abstract Award 

Not awarded for 2024