Transplant research funded by philanthropic donors
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![Dr. Dawn Belt Davis](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_small_167x200_/public/2022-11/701.jpg?itok=wYsViMuU)
![Dr. Sarah Panzer](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_small_167x200_/public/2022-11/2345.jpg?itok=RZyzuokP)
![Dr. Tripti Singh](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_small_167x200_/public/2022-11/5063.jpg?itok=s7nGr0Ry)
![Dr. Sandesh Parajuli](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_small_167x200_/public/2022-11/4956.jpg?itok=TW29LKYf)
Several Department of Medicine faculty members have been selected for Hope, Meet Gratitude Research Awards, which provide $23,000 over 1 year. The awards were funded through the generosity of philanthropic donors to the UW Health transplant program.
Pictured at top right in the order listed below:
- Dawn Belt Davis, MD, PhD, associate professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, will lead a project entitled, "Cholecystokinin receptor agonism as a novel therapy to improve cell survival in human islet transplant."
- Sarah Panzer, MD, assistant professor, Nephrology, will lead a project entitled, "B cell survival cytokines in transplant glomerulopathy."
- Tripti Singh, MD, assistant professor (CHS), and Sandesh Parajuli, MD, assistant professor (CHS), both of Nephrology, will co-lead a project entitled, "Predicting delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients using non-invasive urine biomarker test."
Additional Hope, Meet Gratitude transplant research awards were made to David Al-Adra, MD, PhD and Joshua Mezrich, MD of the Department of Surgery.
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