Scandiatransplant Research Grant

Granted in 2025

Principal Investigator: Are Martin Holm. “Personalising Immunosuppression after Lung Transplantation: Insights from a Nordic randomised controlled multicentre Study”. Supported with 170.000 DKK.
Principal Investigator: Marie Skougaard. “Donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) for monitoring and early, non-invasive detection of allograft rejection in heart transplant patients”. Supported with 170.000 DKK.
Principal Investigator: Gabriel Oniscu. “A Scandinavian multicentre study of machine perfusion technology to mitigate the impact of out of hours liver transplantation on patient outcomes, staff well being and service delivery.” Supported with 170.000 DKK.

Granted in 2024:

Principal investigator: Vera Nilsén: "Outcome of split-liver transplantation with extended right grafts in the Nordic countries – a donor-matched analysis". Supported with 100.630 DKK
Principal investigator: Susanne Dam Poulsen: "Prediction of progression from urinary tract infection to bloodstream infection in kidney transplant recipients". Supported with 260.000 DKK

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:

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:

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:

Granted in 2016:

Granted in 2015:

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:

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 €. + Final report of the project