The 2010 award application deadline has passed.
Information regarding the 2011 program will be posted in late spring.
The AASLD Career Development Award in Liver Transplantation in Memory of the University of Michigan Transplant Team is intended to foster career development for an individual performing clinical and/or translational research in the field of liver transplantation and who has shown commitment to excellence in the field at an early stage of his or her career. The award is designed to support a junior faculty member in the development of liver transplant research so that further funding can be obtained.
The 2009 recipient of the AASLD Career Development Award in Liver Transplantation in Memory of the University of Michigan Transplant Team is Dr. Johnny C. Hong, sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles for his research project entitled Regulated Reperfusion: A Novel Strategy to Mitigate Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in a Swine Model. After starting surgical training at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in the Philippines, Dr. Hong moved to Houston to complete his general surgery residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center. He then relocated to the Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center where he conducted a clinical fellowship in multi-organ transplantation under the mentorship of Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil. To further his research interest and focus on transplant biology and the rational design of novel strategy and techniques to improve the lives of organ recipients and patients with liver disease, Dr. Hong - under the sponsorship of Dr. Ana J. Coito - will be studying one of the critical barriers in the progress of liver transplantation: hepatic ischemia and reperfusion injury.
2008 Career Development Award Recipient
Josh Levitsky, MD
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Project Title: Immune Tolerance Profiles After Conversion From Tacrolimus to Sirolimus in Liver Transplant Recipients
Support of this award by Astellas USA Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
Questions? Contact Denise Seise or Kristin Hutcherson via email at awards@aasld.org.