Carl-Gustav Groth Xeno Paper Prize

IXA members are eligible for the Carl-Gustav Groth Xeno Prize, jointly sponsored by the IXA and Wiley, of $7,000 awarded annually to the best paper published in the IXA’s official journal, Xenotransplantation. Submit your paper now for a chance to win!


2018 Winner:
GalT‐KO pig lungs are highly susceptible to acute vascular rejection in baboons, which may be mitigated by transgenic expression of hCD 47 on porcine blood vessels.
Kazuhiko Yamada, Hironosuke Watanabe, Hisashi Sahara, Shunichiro Nomura, Tatsu Tanabe, Dilrukshi K. Ekanayake‐Alper, Lennan K. Boyd, Nathan J. Louras, Arsenoi Asfour, Makenzie A. Danton, Siu‐Hong Ho, Scott J. Arn, Robert J. Hawley, Akira Shimizu, Takeshi Nagayasu, David Ayares, Marc I. Lorber, Megan Sykes, David H. Sachs.
Volume 25, Issue 5

2017 Winner:
Testing of microencapsulated porcine hepatocytes in a new model of fulminant liver failure in baboons.
Zurab Machaidze, Heidi Yeh, Lingling Wei, Christian Schuetz, Michele Carvello, Antonino Sgroi, Rex N. Smith, Henk‐Jan Schuurman, David H. Sachs, Philippe Morel, James F. Markmann, Léo H. Bühler.
Volume 24, Issue 3

2016 Winner:
Platelet sequestration and activation during GalTKO.hCD46 pig lung perfusion by human blood is primarily mediated by GPIb, GPIIb/IIIa, and von Willebrand Factor.
Lars Burdorf, Andrea Riner, Elana Rybak, Isabelle I. Salles, Simon F. De Meyer, Aakash Shah, Kevin J. Quinn, Donald Harris, Tianshu Zhang, Dawn Parsell, Franchesca Ali, Evan Schwartz, Elizabeth Kang, Xiangfei Cheng, Evelyn Sievert, Yuming Zhao, Gheorghe Braileanu, Carol J. Phelps, David L. Ayares, Hans Deckmyn, Richard N. Pierson III, Agnes M. Azimzadeh.
Volume 23, Issue 3


2015 Winner:
Reduced Human Platelet Uptake by Pig Livers Deficient in the Asialoglycoprotein Receptor-1 Protein
Paris, Leela; Estrada L. Jose; Li, Ping; et al.
Volume 22, Issue 3


2014 Winner:
Cloning and expression of porcine β1,4 N-acetylgalactosaminyl transferase encoding a new xenoreactive antigen
Byrne, Guerard W.; Du, Zeiji; Stalboerger, Paul; et al.
Volume 21, Issue 6


2013 Winner:
Blocking porcine sialoadhesin improves extracorporeal porcine liver xenoperfusion with human blood
Waldman, Joshua P.; Vogel, Thomas; Burlak, Christopher; et al.
Volume 20, Issue 4


2012 Winner:
Identification of human preformed antibody targets in GTKO pigs
Burlak, Christopher; Wang, Zheng-Yu; Chihara, Ray K.; et al.
Volume 19, Issue 2

IN MEMORIAM: CARL-GUSTAV GROTH

Carl-Gustav Groth, MD, PhD, a preeminent transplant surgeon with a career of nearly 50 years in the field of organ transplantation, has died after an extended illness. Dr. Groth was Editor-in-Chief of Xenotransplantation from 2007 to 2011. Read more about this pioneer.