Young Investigator Committee

Mission, Objectives & Background

To encourage the active engagement of trainee members and facilitate interactions between trainee and senior members to advance clinical and basic research and activities in the field of islet and pancreas transplantation.

  1. Engage with young investigators and faculty and provide opportunities for professional development.
  2. Create a forum for new research trends and technology emanating from young investigators and pitch curated ideas and concepts to the council to more swiftly meet our research agenda.
  3. Expand scientific and social programs for the IPITA biennial congresses.
  4. Scientific exchange between young and senior investigators to exchange and preserve knowledge and to foster collaborations.

The IPITA YIC was formed in 2014 to encourage the active engagement of trainee members and facilitate interactions between trainee and senior members to advance research and activities in the field of islet and whole pancreas research.

Deliverable Projects
  1. Maintain a tailored program appealing to young investigators during the IPITA biennial Congress.
  2. Maintain a young investigator networking event/reception or social event at IPITA Congresses.
  3. Develop a webinar on professional development/leadership skills.
  4. Build a database of resources for grants, scholarships, courses and training opportunities for trainees in the field.
  5. Maintain and improve the IPITA social media presence.
  6. Provide mentorship to Young
  7. Investigators/Graduate students and create lasting mentor – mentee relationships (matching by research interests). Improve provision of resources for the mentee/mentor to enable and incentivize their role in enabling the next generation of researchers.7. Serve as a sounding board for young investigator IPITA members and represent their interests to the Council. Facilitate communications platforms for the Council and IPITA Members.
  8. Interaction with funding and regulatory agencies to discuss funding priorities for the development of the next generation of beta cell replacement therapies. Encourage funding agencies to feed RFAs and grant info into database (see 4).
  9. Organize virtual Journal Clubs – via social media and moderated by first authors/Young Investigators.
  10. Patient outreach and education at local institutions and during IPITA Congresses – improve knowledge and understanding, whilst ensuring realistic expectations about current and emerging therapies. Fundraising.
  11. Job postings for fellows, junior faculty, graduate students and staff via social media.
Members


Antonio Citro

Italy - Chair
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Shadab Abadpour

Norway
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Caterina Di Bella

Italy
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Daniel Doherty

United Kingdom
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Braulio Alejandro Marfil-Garza

Mexico
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Hussein A Khambalia

United Kingdom - Past Chair
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Hirotake Komatsu

United States
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Adriana Migliorini

Canada
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Swati Mishra

United States
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Paraish Misra

Canada
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Andrea Peloso

Italy
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Karthik Ramanathan

United States
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Hanne Scholz

Norway - Mentor
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Past Members


Takayuki Anazawa

Japan
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Talal M Al-Qaoud

Kuwait
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Julien Branchereau

Kuwait
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Sarah Cross

United Kingdom - Past Chair
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Leticia Labriola

Brazil
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Raphael Meier

Switzerland
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Robert Redfield

United States
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Christian Schuetz

United States
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Anja Steffen

The Netherlands - Past Chair
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Peter Stock

United States
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Nathan Zammit

Australia - Past Co-Chair
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Masaaki Watanabe

Japan
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IPITA CH@T Forum

IPITA Chat is a new email discussion forum for all investigators, clinicians and scientists with an interest in islet and/or pancreas transplantation in clinical and experimental fields. By becoming an active member of the group, knowledge will be expanded for our all benefit. Young investigators as well as senior people in the field are encouraged to participate, either by asking questions or contributing to the discussion.

We hope that IPITA Chat will develop into a lively and educational forum for all.

Social Media

The aims of this group are to encourage and foster communication, and create a community for the next generation of pancreas and islet transplantation researchers.

We hope to actively engage researchers in discussions, for example critical reviews of recently published papers, a forum for protocol questions/lab based issues, a who’s who section to allow junior members of different labs to get to know each other etc.

Mentorship Programme

We hope to establish a programme for trainees that will provide advice and mentoring to help in the development of successful careers in islet and pancreas transplantation research.

Congress Activities
The YIC will collaborate with IPITA meeting organizers to arrange a young investigator networking event/reception or social event, and a specific young investigator scientific session at all future IPITA Congresses.

Funding database

Database of funding resources for young investigators in the field (COMING SOON)

YIC Events

Coming Soon!

Resources

Coming Soon!

Social

Contact

Staff Directory
+1-514-874-1717 x216
sections@tts.org

Address

International Pancreas & Islet Transplant Association
c/o The Transplantation Society
740 Notre-Dame Ouest
Suite 1245
Montréal, QC, H3C 3X6
Canada