News & Events: ASTS Research Grants

Yvonne Kelly, MD has been awarded the prestigious Jon Fryer Resident Scientist Scholarship by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) for 2019-2020. The award was presented at the 2019 American Transplant Congress earlier this month in Boston, Massachusetts. The scholarship is supported by the ASTS Foundation in order to foster innovation and research in the fields of transplantation and transplant immunobiology.   Dr. Kelly is a fourth year general surgery resident at UCSF currently in her first of two professional development years. She is completing her research fellowship in [...]

James M. Gardner, M.D., Ph.D. and Nicole Conkling, M.D. have been awarded prestigious research grants by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) for its 2017 funding cycle.  Dr. Gardner, who just completed his Chief Residency in General Surgery at UCSF and is a rising fellow in the Division of Transplant Surgery, was the only transplant fellow in the country to receive the prestigious ASTS-Astellas Fellowship. The award will fund Dr. Gardner's research, which he pursued throughout his residency with the support of Department of Surgery funding, during his clinical fellowship [...]