CCTI Investigators Receive Prestigious 2025 Research Awards

Congratulations to CCTI Principal Investigators for achieving the following 2025 research awards to date:

• Dr. Jianing Fu, Department of Medicine 2024 Bridge Fund, "Mechanisms of T cell tolerance following human intestinal transplantation" 
• Dr. Arnold Han, NIH R01, "T helper cells and stem cells in colon homeostasis and tumor initiation"
• Dr. Markus Mapara, Columbia Transplant Initiative Matching Award, "Development of Chimeric Antigen Receptor-expressing Phagocytes for the treatment of AL-Amyloidosis"
• Dr. Markus Mapara, International Myeloma Society and Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation Translational Research Award, "The development of CAR-phagocytes targeting amyloid fibrils for AL Amyloidosis therapy"  
• Dr. Megan Sykes, Dr. David Sachs, and Dr. Pawel Muranski, ARPA-H award, "ImPLANT: Immunoshielded Printed Liver Assist NeoOrgan for Transplant"
• Dr. Megan Sykes and Dr. Remi Creusot, NIH UG3 "Understanding thymic epithelial and hematopoietic stem cell-intrinsic immune abnormalities driving T1D in optimized HIS mouse models"
• Dr. Megan Sykes, Sponsored Research Agreement, "Studying a Xenokidney in a Brain-Dead Human for an Extended Period"
• Dr. Emmanuel Zorn, NIH R01, "Functional significance of plasma cell infiltrates of human cardiac allograft vasculopathy"
• Dr. Remi Creusot, Mathers Foundation Grant "Non-ablative autologous hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell transplantation"