Scandiatransplant Research Grant

• Invitation to apply for Scandiatransplant research grant 2026 The application deadline of February 1st 2026 has passed.

• Announcement letter with guidelines for application

• Research grant application form

• Research grant report form

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:

• 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 + Final Report
• 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 + Final Report
• 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 €. + Final 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 €. + Final report of the project