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2026-2028 WIT Research Grants for Research in Gender and Sex in Transplantation

Dr. Germaine Wong

WIT Chair | TTS Councilor

Request for Applications Now Open!
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2026

On behalf of the entire Women in Transplantation Executive, I’m very excited to announce WIT funding opportunities for 2026. This will be the sixth year that we are offering research fellowships in sex and gender in solid organ transplantation.
These fellowships will support the next generation of scientists, furthering our understanding of the importance of sex and gender in transplantation. This is a growing field of interest and the more we learn the closer we are to applying these findings to clinical care to benefit patients and donors.
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We are delighted to announce that we will continue to offer a grant to faculty working in low or middle income countries. This grant will allow transplant professionals working in low and middle income countries to work with an experienced mentor from among the WIT membership to address an important question within their own unique context. We hope that this award will spur exciting international collaborations and build more research capacity in lower resource settings.

For the second year, we are delighted to announce that we will run the WIT Research Grant for Projects in Gender and Sex and SOT amongst Indigenous Populations.

Requests for Applications for all grants are now open and are being considered. Please note that we will accept only one mentee application per mentor, and only one application from any single administering institution (defined either by the hospital network or the university or academic institution. This will apply across all grants

If you have any further questions and for information on how to apply, please contact Katie Tait (WIT Manager) at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request more information.

We welcome all applications and look forward to an exciting competition!


Women in Transplantation: History of Reproductive Medicine

See Dr. Catherine Racowsky’s presentation "Women in Transplantation: History of Reproductive Medicine: From the first IVF baby to OvarReimplantation to Uterus Transplantation", delivered for WIT at the ISUTx Congress in Antalya, Turkey in October 2025.

Announcement of 2025-2027 WIT Indigenous Research Grant Winner

  • Dr. Johanna Birrell
    Emory University of Sydney
    Australia
    Project Title:
    Transplant Inequities: Knowledge and Access

Announcement of 2025-2027 WIT Fellowship and LMIC Research Grant Winners

  • Dr. Annika Gompers
    Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
    Atlanta, USA
    Project Title:
    Examining Multilevel Determinants of Intersectional Gender and Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplant Access in the United States

  • Dr. Khushboo Saxena
    Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center - Institute of Transplantation Sciences
    Ahmedabad, India
    Project Title:
    Developing and Testing Digital Tools to Expand Access to Kidney Transplantation: A Gender-Focused Approach

Announcement of 2024 WIT Award Winners

Women in Transplantation (WIT), a Special Initiative of The Transplantation Society, is delighted to announce our WIT Award winners for 2024!
After much consideration from a pool of outstanding nominations, WIT is honoured to recognize Dr. Curie Ahn as our Woman Leader in Transplantation, 2024.
Curie Ahn, Korea
MD, PhD, Nephrology
National Medical Center
This year we are thrilled to be able to award two separate awards to two outstanding women – Dr. Wenshi Jiang and Dr. Katayoun Najafizadeh – who are our Unsung Hero(ine)s for 2024.
Wenshi Jiang, People's Republic of China
Senior Consultant
Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University
Katayoun Najafizadeh, Iran
Iranian Society of Organ Donation

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