Scandiatransplant Research grant

Invitation to apply for Scandiatransplant research grant 2023
Announcement letter with guidelines for application
Research grant application form
Research Grant Report Form
Granted in 2023: Principal investigator: Marie Skougaard: "Unravelling immunological mechanisms of unexplained graft rejection by in silico HLA epitope matching in solidorgan transplantation – a proof-of-concept trial exploring the relevance of HLA epitope matching". Supported with 362.000 DKK Principal investigator: Kathe Meyer: "Care in Organ Donation - relatives' and ICU personnel's perspectives". Supported with 150.000 DKK
Granted in 2022: Principal investigator: Tor Skibsted Clemmensen "Semiautomatic optical coherence tomography evaluation of early cardiac allograft vasculopathy development after heart transplantation: The AutoOCT study". Supported with 16.000 DKK Principal investigator: Jana Ekberg "Long-term follow-up of steroid avoidance in kidney transplant recipients in a randomized controlled trial - SAILOR II study". Supported with 230.000 DKK Principal investigator: Terhi Friman "Solid organ transplantation and cancer; post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) study". Supported with 90.000 DKK Principal investigator: Hans-Christian Pommergaard "Early detection of de novo cancer in liver transplant recipients study". Supported with 200.000 DKK
Granted in 2021: Principal investigator: Lilia Martinez de la Maza "Bile composition and its regulatory pathways as predictors of liver function in liver transplantation". Supported with 150.000 DKK. Principal investigator: Bente Jespersen "EVITA study - Epstein-Barr Virus Infection monitoring in renal transplant recipients. Early identification of increased risk of infection and cancer for individualised immunosuppression". Supported with 201.000 DKK.
Granted in 2020: Principal investigator: Per Brandström "Improved immunosuppressive drug adherence in adolescents by increasing selfmanagement of medication control". Supported with 90.000 DKK. Principal investigator: Pernille Koefoed-Nielsen "Torque Teno virus as a biomarker for immunosuppression in heart transplanted patients". Supported with 89.000 DKK. Principal investigator: Helena Genberg "ABO incompatible living donor kidney transplantations in pediatric patients, a collaborative study from the Nordic Paediatric Renal Transplantation Study Group (NPRTSG)". Supported with 285.000 DKK. Principal investigator: Kristjan Karason "Heart transplantation in inflammatory cardiomyopathy knowledge acquisition (HATTRICK)". Supported with 75.000 DKK. + Feedback of scientific progress
Granted in 2019: Principal investigator: Geir Mjøen "One-year biopsies in low risk kidney transplant patients – a cross sectional multicenter study". Supported with 200.000 DKK. + Feedback of scientific progress and financial balance Principal investigator: Hans Eiskjær "Effect of PCSK9 inhibition on early cardiac allograft vasculopathy in de novo Heart Transplant patients: An OCT sub study to EVOLVD study". Supported with 330.000 DKK. +Feedback of scientific progress and financial balance
Granted in 2018: Principal investigator: Göran Dellgren "Sub-study on donor specific antibodies in the ScanCLAD study". Supported with 370.000 DKK. +Feedback of scientific progress
Granted in 2017: Principal investigator: Bjarne Møller "Epitope-mapping of Anti-HLA cl.I and II Antibodies in Highly Sensitized Patients by Machine Learning". Supported with 148.686 DKK. +Feedback of scientific progress Principal investigator: Silvia Malenicka "Evaluation of vaccination practices in liver transplanted children in the Nordic countries". Supported with 308.743 DKK. +First Feedback of scientific progress +Second feedback of scientific progress +Third feedback of scientific progress +Fourth feedback of scientific progress
Granted in 2016: Principal investigator: Allan Rasmussen "Donor Specific HLA alloantibodies in Liver Transplantation: a prospective blinded multicenter prognostic study". Supported with 220.000 DKK. +Feedback of scientific progress Principal investigator: Hans Eiskjær "Platelets, coagulation and cardiac allograft vasculopathy after heart transplantation". Supported with 150.000 DKK. +Feedback of scientific progress +Report of the project
Granted in 2015: Taina Jaatinen "Comparison of HLA antibody testing methods in highly sensitized patients."Supported with 20.000 €. +Feedback of scientific progress Hans Henrik L. Schultz "Priority for urgency in lung transplantation – Scandiatransplant Urgent Call compared with the Lung Allocation Score." Supported with 20.000 €. +Feedback of scientific progress. Article published in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, August 2018.
Granted in 2014: Kari Nytrøen, Marianne Yardley, Finn Gustafsson and Kristjan Karason "Effect of exercise after heart transplantation – short term and long term." Supported with 40.000 €. +Feedback of scientific progress
Granted in 2013: Principal investigator: Arno Nordin "Liver Transplantation in cancer - a Nordic multicenter population based study." Supported with 20.000 €. +Feedback of scientific progress Principal investigator: Helena Isoniemi "Survival gap and premature death after liver transplantation - A Nordic population-based study." Supported with 20.000 €. +Report of the project
Granted in 2012: Principal investigator Lars Bäckman "Analysis of the true incidence of post-transplant malignancies in renal transplant recipients. Initiation of a Nordic project on post-transplant malignancies". Supported with 20.000 €. +Feedback of scientific progress
Granted in 2011: Principal investigator Aksel Foss "The use of donor livers above 75 years in liver transplantation. A Nordic collaborative study". Supported with 20.000 €. +Report of the project

Granted in 2023:

Principal investigator: Marie Skougaard: "Unravelling immunological mechanisms of unexplained graft rejection by in silico HLA epitope matching in solidorgan transplantation – a proof-of-concept trial exploring the relevance of HLA epitope matching". Supported with 362.000 DKK
Principal investigator: Kathe Meyer: "Care in Organ Donation - relatives' and ICU personnel's perspectives". Supported with 150.000 DKK

Granted in 2022:

Principal investigator: Tor Skibsted Clemmensen "Semiautomatic optical coherence tomography evaluation of early cardiac allograft vasculopathy development after heart transplantation: The AutoOCT study". Supported with 16.000 DKK
Principal investigator: Jana Ekberg "Long-term follow-up of steroid avoidance in kidney transplant recipients in a randomized controlled trial - SAILOR II study". Supported with 230.000 DKK
Principal investigator: Terhi Friman "Solid organ transplantation and cancer; post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) study". Supported with 90.000 DKK
Principal investigator: Hans-Christian Pommergaard "Early detection of de novo cancer in liver transplant recipients study". Supported with 200.000 DKK

Granted in 2021:

Principal investigator: Lilia Martinez de la Maza "Bile composition and its regulatory pathways as predictors of liver function in liver transplantation". Supported with 150.000 DKK.
Principal investigator: Bente Jespersen "EVITA study - Epstein-Barr Virus Infection monitoring in renal transplant recipients. Early identification of increased risk of infection and cancer for individualised immunosuppression". Supported with 201.000 DKK.

Granted in 2020:

Principal investigator: Per Brandström "Improved immunosuppressive drug adherence in adolescents by increasing selfmanagement of medication control". Supported with 90.000 DKK.
Principal investigator: Pernille Koefoed-Nielsen "Torque Teno virus as a biomarker for immunosuppression in heart transplanted patients". Supported with 89.000 DKK.
Principal investigator: Helena Genberg "ABO incompatible living donor kidney transplantations in pediatric patients, a collaborative study from the Nordic Paediatric Renal Transplantation Study Group (NPRTSG)". Supported with 285.000 DKK.
Principal investigator: Kristjan Karason "Heart transplantation in inflammatory cardiomyopathy knowledge acquisition (HATTRICK)". Supported with 75.000 DKK. + Feedback of scientific progress

Granted in 2019:

Granted in 2018: