Moderated by: Valeria Mas & Wojciech Polak
The Rising Star Award is granted to the best and brightest combinations of youth and wisdom working in the clinical and basic science of liver transplantation research today.
Mentor: Jeroen de Jonge
Award Recipient: Stefan H. Luijmes – Unraveling the Molecular Responses of Mature and Progenitor-Type Cholangioctyes to Ischemia and Reoxygenation Using an Organoid Model
Mentor: Qi Ling
Award Recipient: Xuewen Yi – Halting Early Allograft Injury and Rejection with Anti-CCL2 Conjugated Platelets Therapy
Mentor: Hideki Ohdan
Award Recipient: Masahiro Ohira – Maintenance of Liver-Resident NK Cell Function: A Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Post-Transplantation Recurrence and Immunological Surveillance
Mentor: Yuan Liu
Award Recipient: Wanglon Xiao – CX3CR1+CD4+ Cytotoxic T Cells Target Cholangioctye Self-Antigens to Drive Autoimmunity in Biliary Atresia
Valeria Mas
Wojciech Polak
Masahiro Ohira