ISHLT/Enduring Hearts Pediatric Heart Transplantation Innovation Challenge Grant
Forecasted
ISHLT/Enduring Hearts Pediatric Heart Transplantation Innovation Challenge Grant supports researchers advancing pediatric heart transplant care to improve survival, graft health, and long-term outcomes.
Funder: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: One award of up to $30,000 USD for one year
Summary: Supports innovative research to improve survival, graft health, and long-term outcomes for children and adolescents undergoing heart transplantation.
Key Information: Finalists must present in person at the ISHLT Annual Meeting; a research team member may present for an unavailable applicant.
Description
The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), in partnership with Enduring Hearts, supports research to improve outcomes for pediatric heart transplant patients. The program particularly values innovative, early-phase proposals with potential for rapid translation. Key interests include newer diagnostic tools, monitoring technologies, early immunologic breakthroughs that maintain healthier grafts, and technologies that improve survival to transplantation.
Research priorities include reducing or eliminating rejection and cardiac allograft vasculopathy through innovative management before or after transplantation. The grant also supports strategies and technologies that improve longevity for children and adolescents awaiting transplantation or immediately afterward, as well as approaches that extend recipients’ longevity through adolescence and the transition to adult care.
