Announcing the TTS - Dr. Sanjeev Kanoria Liver Transplant Award

The Transplantation Society is proud to launch a new biennial, $10,000 award—made possible by a $250,000 endowment from the Dr. Sanjeev & Sangita Kanoria Foundation—honouring excellence in liver transplantation. The first award will be presented at TTS 2026 in Sydney, Australia, this will be one of the most significant awards in liver transplantation globally, recognizing transformative contributions to science, innovation, and patient care. Nominations will open in November, stayed tuned for details.

Our sincere thanks to Dr. Sanjeev and Sangita Kanoria for their visionary support.

Pictured from left to right: John Fung, Sangita and Sanjeev Kanoria, Nadey Hakim

WTC2025 - Great Science, Great Experience

With over 5,000 participants from 70 countries, WTC 2025 was a great success—blending outstanding science with ample opportunities to network with colleagues from around the world. We’ll publish a more detailed report in an upcoming issue; in the meantime, please enjoy these photos of TTS leadership at the congress.

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TTS2026 Call for Ideas & Session Proposals - Deadline August 28

Be part of shaping the future of transplantation at the 31st International Congress of The Transplantation Society (TTS 2026) in Sydney, Australia, September 20–23, 2026!

Under the theme Innovation through Collaboration, we’re inviting the global transplantation community to submit ideas that will make this a truly exceptional event. Whether it’s a full session proposal, a topic suggestion (with or without speakers), an innovative session format, a networking concept, or a fresh idea to enhance the attendee experience, your input matters. The Scientific Program Committee will review all submissions to complement the core program and ensure diverse, impactful, and forward-thinking content.

Deadline: August 28, 2025.

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JUST RELEASED - Transplantation Direct Journal - August 2025 Issue

The August issue of Transplantation Direct touches many areas of transplantation, and is ready for viewing. Starting with pancreas transplantation, we have organ preservation articles on hypothermic machine perfusion (MP) of pancreas transplants, as well as ischemia-reperfusion injury biomolecular signature research in a porcine model. In liver transplantation, we have reports on the effect of waitlist low performance status (KPS) mitigation on outcomes in the US, and on how lactate clearance patterns after liver normothermic MP predict biliary complications after DCD. In lung transplantation, important recommendations are made to optimize lung utilization in donors over 65 years old. On the topic of kidney transplantation, patient immunosuppression adherence is analyzed in subgroups from the KTx 360° substudy, highlighting a “catch-up effect" for a specific patient subset. For our VCA readership, we have a global report on outcomes of nonvascular rectus fascia transplantation. For details on these articles and others, please visit our open access Transplantation Direct website.

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Kidney Transplantation

Longitudinal Course and Baseline Predictors of Trajectories of Clinician-assessed Adherence to Immunosuppressant Medication in Patients after Kidney Transplantation: A KTx360° Substudy
Martina de Zwaan, Mariel Nöhre, Felix Klewitz, Maximilian Bauer-Hohmann, Charlotte Kuczyk, Yesim Erim, Lena Schiffer, Deborah Meier, Julia K. Wolff, Uwe Tegtbur, Lars Pape, Mario Schiffer

Organ Donation and Procurement

Is 2 h of Hypothermic Machine Perfusion for Pancreas Preservation Effective in Improving Graft Reperfusion?
Benoit Mesnard, Christophe Masset, Etohan Ogbemudia, Sarah Bruneau, Mohamed Elzawahry, Stéphanie Le Bas-Bernardet, David Minault, Jeremy Hervouet, Diego Cantarovich, Jérôme Rigaud, Lionel Badet, Peter Friend, Rutger Ploeg, Gilles Blancho, James Hunter, Thomas Prudhomme, Julien Branchereau

Lung Transplantation

Optimal Utilization of Donors Aged ≥65 Y in Lung Transplantation to Increase Donor Availability While Maintaining Comparable Posttransplant Outcomes
Marniker A. Wijesinha, Maksim Korotun, Michael L. Terrin, Craig J. Fryman, Manish R. Mohanka, Si M. Pham, Aldo T. Iacono

Liver Transplantation

Longitudinal Assessment of Performance Status in US Liver Transplantation: National Trends and Survival Implications
Tomohiro Tanaka, Emily K. Roberts, Jonathan Platt, David Axelrod
Dynamic Lactate Clearance Patterns During Normothermic Machine Perfusion Predict Posttransplant Biliary Complications in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation
Ayato Obana, Miho Akabane, Hannah Chi, Nolan Ladd, Andrew Nguyen, Lin Abigail Tan, Rithin Punjala, Kejal Shah, Matthew Hamilton, Ashley Limkemann, Navdeep Singh, Musab Alebrahim, Khalid Mumtaz, Austin Schenk, Sylvester Black, Kenneth Washburn

Hand and Composite Tissue Allotransplantation

Long-term Outcome After Nonvascularized Rectus Fascia Transplantation in Solid Organ Transplantation: A Global Multicenter IIRTA Survey
Nele Van De Winkel, Ewout Muylle, Emilio Canovai, Irum Amin, Andrew Butler, Rodrigo Vianna, Gennaro Selvaggi, Pablo Farinelli, Gabriel Gondolesi, Carmelo Loinaz, Iago Justo, Hector Vilca-Melendez, Ulrika Skogsberg Dahlgren, Gustaf Herlenius, Alireza Shamsaeefar, Hamed Nikoupour, Antoine Dubois, Marc Miserez, André D’Hoore, Robert Venick, Jacques Pirenne, Laurens J. Ceulemans

Letter to the Editor

Commentary on: The Impact of Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HOPE) on Immune Responses and Sterile Inflammation in a Preclinical Model of Pancreatic Transplantation by Mesnard B et al. Transplantation Direct 2025; 11:e1743; doi: 10.1097/TXD.0000000000001743
Arnau Panisello-Rosello, Carlos Palmeira, Teresa Carbonell, Joan Rosello-Catafau

Pancreas and Islet Transplantation

Establishing and Validating a Biomolecular Signature of Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in a Porcine Pancreas Allotransplantation Model
Samrat Ray, Sujani Ganesh, Laura Martinez-Arenas, Catherine Parmentier, Masataka Kawamura, Bhranavi Arulratnam, Christian Hobeika, Emmanuel Nogueira, Francisco Calderon Novoa, Markus Selzner, Trevor W. Reichman

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ITS 2025 - Abstracts Deadline Has Been Extended to August 19th, 2025.

Join us for the 2025 International Transplantation Science meeting (ITS 2025) and connect with the leading global transplantation community!

On behalf of AST, ESOT and TTS, we wish to extend to you a warm welcome to the 2025 International Transplant Science meeting in San Diego, California USA.

Abstract Deadline: August 19
Early-bird Registration Deadline: August 31

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Summary Report of the CTS-TIREX Expert Meeting 2024 “Innovative Approaches to Immunogenetics and Organ Transplantation”

Recent advancements in genetic modification of pig and human organs and immunosuppressive cell therapies started to evoke the hope that organ shortage and immunological rejection as the main challenges of organ transplantation could soon be overcome.

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Exploring Caregiver Support as a Potential Mediator of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Reduced Likelihood of Liver Transplant Waitlisting

Individuals from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods may be at risk of inequitable access to the liver transplant (LT) waitlisting (WL), but mechanisms mediating this relationship are not well understood. We assessed whether area deprivation index (ADI), a measure of neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation, was associated with LT WL and assessed whether caregiver support, a potentially modifiable factor, mediated this relationship.