Women in Transplantation (WIT), a Special Initiative of The Transplantation Society, is delighted to announce our WIT Research Fellowship in Gender and Sex award winner for 2025, as well as our WIT Research Grant for Projects on Gender and Sex in Transplantation (LMIC) winner.

This is the fifth year that we are able to offer these fellowships, which 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.

This initiative was made possible with support from Sanofi.

  • 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

Mentor

  • Dr. Jessica Harding
    Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
    Atlanta, USA

WIT also wishes to take this opportunity to announce the winner of the Women in Transplantation Research Grant for faculty working in low or middle income (LMIC) countries. This is the third year which we have been able to fund this grant, which we hope will continue to really make a difference to transplantation in LMIC and to research capacity in these countries.

  • 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

Mentors

  • Dr. Bethany Foster
    McGill University
    Montreal, Canada
  • Dr. Vivek Kute
    Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center - Institute of Transplantation Sciences
    Ahmedabad, India

Women in Transplantation is delighted to announce the winner of our inaugural WIT Research Award for Projects in Gender and Sex and SOT amongst Indigenous Populations.

This is the first year that we are able to offer this grant, which will fund research that improves our understanding of the intersection between sex and/or gender and race and/or ethnicity (specifically for Indigenous populations) in the field of solid organ transplantation. It will aim to contribute to improving the equity, advocacy, and health in solid organ transplantation amongst Indigenous peoples globally.

  • Dr. Johanna Birrell
    University of Sydney
    Australia

    Project Title:
    Transplant Inequities: Knowledge and Access

Mentor

  • Prof. Angela Webster
    University of Sydney
    Australia

We look forward to collaborating with these teams, and to learning from the findings of their exciting research projects.