Awards & Honors

Satya Das, PhD

Early Career High Impact Oral Presentation at the 7th Asian Cardiovascular Symposium at the  AHA BCVS 2025 (Baltimore, MD)

Riley Leonard, PhD

Oral Presentation at the AHA BCVS 2025 (Baltimore, MD)

David H. Sachs, MD

Columbia University Research Stabilization Grant
“Role of MHC Matching in Transplant Tolerance Induction”
Total Funds: $99,972
Dates: 7/1/25 - 6/30/26 

Joshua Weiner, MD

"Does MHC Class II Sharing Decrease Rejection and Promote Regulatory Tolerance in Intestinal Transplantation?"
Columbia University Research Stabilization Grant
Total Funds: $100,000
Dates: 7/1/25 - 6/30/26

Hideki Masaki, PhD

Huang T, Radley A, Yanagida A, Ren Z, Carlisle F, Tahajjodi S, Kim D, O'Neill P, Clarke J, Lancaster MA, Heckhausen Z, Zhuo J, de Sousa JPA, Hajkova P, von Meyenn F, Imai H, Nakauchi H, Guo G, Smith A, Masaki H. Inhibition of PRC2 enables self-renewal of blastoid-competent naive pluripotent stem cells from chimpanzee. Cell Stem Cell. 2025 Apr 3;32(4):627-639.e8.

Hiro Nakauchi, MD, PhD

Ludwig Foundation grant, Bacharach Foundation grant
“DNA Transistors for Cellular Programming”
NIH  R21GM159202 08/01/2025-07/31/2027

Eckhard Wolf, DVM

Elected Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities 

Asghar Ali, DVM, PhD

“XenExoCor Jump Start Award” from Leducq Network of Excellence XenExoCor group

James Dutton, PhD

Director, Minnesota Center for Organoid Manufacturing 

Yukiko Endo, MD, PhD

“Award of Empowering Women in Research Grant Program” from Daiich-Sankyo Inc.

Riley Leonard, PhD

NIH T32 Trainee August 2024

Hisato Nagano, MD, PhD

“Encouragement Award, Basic Research Division” from Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

“XenExoCor Jump Start Award” from Leducq Network of Excellence XenExoCor group