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Lori West

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Alberta

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Lori West

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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19 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 13 research grants (10 CIHR, 3 NSERC), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Transplantation Increasing Donation Inflammation Solid Organs/Cells Transplant Complications Organ Donation Immune Tolerance Bone Marrow

Latest papers

T-Cell Engager-Mediated HLA Antibody Depletion before Kidney Transplantation.
The New England journal of medicine · 2026
Co-design in action: lessons learned from transplant patient and family engagement in an integrated knowledge translation strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research involvement and engagement · 2026
Deceased Organ Donation and Transplantation in LIMC: A Meeting Report.
Transplantation · 2026

All 40 publications

Latest funding

Overcoming ABO blood group inequity in transplantation: a new diagnostic assay to modernize ABO-incompatible organ transplantation
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$1,071,000
From Bench to Business, Commercial Pathways in Immunology Diagnostics
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$30,000
Equitable pandemic communication strategies to support sexual and gender minority transplant patients
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$40,000

All 16 grants and awards

40 publications.

T-Cell Engager-Mediated HLA Antibody Depletion before Kidney Transplantation.

Schatzl M, Mayer KA, Agis H, Haindl S, Kriks D, Fischer G, Exner M, Hönger G, Veljancic N, Allmer DM, Graf I, Diebold M, Halloran PF, Halpin A, Li C, West L, Kozakowski N, Böhmig GA

The New England journal of medicine2026

DOI: 10.1056/nejmc2603853 PMID: 42526030

Co-design in action: lessons learned from transplant patient and family engagement in an integrated knowledge translation strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cameranesi M, Logan S, de Vries R, Escoto M, Hébert MJ, Kabbani D, Piotrowski C, West L, Gongal P, Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program

Research involvement and engagement2026

DOI: 10.1186/s40900-026-00941-1 PMID: 42493809

Deceased Organ Donation and Transplantation in LIMC: A Meeting Report.

Ahn C, Stock P, Kim YH, Mannon R, Najafizadeh K, Delpierre CB, Punch J, Lkhaakhuu OE, Niño-Murcia A, Danguilan R, West L, Tullius SG, Pamugas G, Lumpaopong A, Ahmed E, Matamoros MA, Min S, Moon IS, Yoon HB, Chapman JR

Transplantation2026

DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000005567 PMID: 41869835

Posttransplant outcomes with prolonged donor heart ischemic time in the pediatric population.

Oliver S, Conway J, Khoury M, Eurich D, Dubois C, Bedard K, Urschel S, Pidborochynski T, West L, Al-Aklabi M, Jonker D, Freed DH

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.12.002 PMID: 41360267

Repeat ABO-B-incompatible living-donor kidney transplantation.

Daoudi I, Heinzel A, Fischer G, Wagner L, Halpin A, West L, Motyka B, Raab L, Reindl-Schwaighofer R, Oberbauer R

Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association2026

DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfaf246 PMID: 41206771

ABO-incompatible heart transplants in children aged 2-9 years: A new paradigm in transplant?

Hollis P, Issitt R, Lava SAG, Laurence C, Simmonds J, Fenton M, Muthialu N, Robertson A, Crook R, West L, Burch M

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2025.08.003 PMID: 40846116

Evaluation of multiplexed liquid glycan Array (LiGA) for serological detection of glycan-binding antibodies.

Reddy R, Carpenter E, Halpin A, Sojitra M, Peng C, Lima GM, Xue X, Yan K, Pearcy J, Ellis M, Motyka B, Lowary TL, West L, Derda R

Glycobiology2025

DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwaf042 PMID: 40796239

The Authors' Perspective on 'Summary of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Consensus Conference on Emerging Understanding of Antibodies and Antibody-mediated Rejection in Heart Transplantation'.

Kobashigawa J, Zuckermann A, Zeevi A, Barten MJ, Chang PP, Colvin M, Coutance G, Dipchand A, Ensminger S, Farrero M, Habal M, Halpin A, Jackson AM, Manla Y, Muthiah K, Potena L, Reed EF, Schlendorf K, Shah P, Tambur A, Urschel S, Webber S, West L, Youn JC, Patel J, Consensus Conference participants

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2025.05.010 PMID: 40716945

Summary of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation consensus conference on emerging understanding of antibodies and antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation.

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2025.02.1690 PMID: 40498433

Rejection and graft vasculopathy secondary to effects of Crohn's disease in a heart-transplanted child.

Oliver S, Conway J, Freed D, Halpin A, Huynh H, Khoury M, Kluthe C, Dijke E, West L, Urschel S

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.04.020 PMID: 40306436

Overcoming ABO blood group inequity in transplantation: a new diagnostic assay to modernize ABO-incompatible organ transplantation

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: West, Lori J

Keywords: Abo Blood Groups; Diagnostic Assay; Multiplex Immunoassay; Organ Transplantation

$1,071,000

From Bench to Business, Commercial Pathways in Immunology Diagnostics

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Halpin, Anne

Keywords: Commercialization; Immunology

$30,000

Equitable pandemic communication strategies to support sexual and gender minority transplant patients

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Gongal, Patricia; Leeies, Murdoch A

Keywords: Equity; Health Communication; Lgbtq2s+; Pandemic; Sexual And Gender Minorities

$40,000

A Knowledge Mobilization Hub for the Canadian Inflammation Research Community

Principal investigatorCIHR2024Tm Gr: Interv. Trial in Inflam. Chronic Conditions - Knowledge Mobilization Hub

Principal investigators: Gongal, Patricia; Levings, Megan K; West, Lori J

Keywords: Knowledge Mobilization

$580,000

A national approach to prioritizing emerging research questions in COVID-19 in transplantation

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Gongal, Patricia

Keywords: Consensus-Building; Covid-19; Economics; Family Wellness; Infectious Disease; Mental Health; National Collaboration; Solid Organ Transplant; Stem Cell Transplant; Transplantation

$20,000

Innovation after a century: Bead-based assay for ABO antibody detection

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Idea to Innovation

Principal investigators: West, Lori LJ

Keywords: ABH glycans; ABO antibodies; ABO histo-blood group; ABO-incompatible transplantation; Clinical assay; Clinical risk assessment/management; Glycoimmunology; Histocompatibility; Kit-based assay; Luminex single-antigen bead assay

$155,000

Variations on a theme: New approaches to examine SARS-CoV-2 variants and their ABO connections

Nominated PICIHR2021Operating Grant: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps and Priorities - Variants

Principal investigators: West, Lori J

Keywords: Abh Glycans; Abo Antibodies; Abo Histo-Blood Group; Covid-19; Glycobiology; Live Virus; Multiplex Bead Antibody Assay; Sars-Cov-2; Sars-Cov-2 Antibodies; Sars-Cov-2 Variant

$482,935

Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program (CDTRP): Maximizing benefits through national infrastructure and sustainability planning

Nominated PICIHR2018Network Grant in Transplantation Research

Principal investigators: West, Lori J; Fowler, Elisabeth A; Levy, Isra; Blydt-Hansen, Tom; Caulfield, Timothy A; Delisle, Jean-Sébastien; Dhanani, Sonny; Fortin, Marie-Chantal; Hébert, Marie-Josée; Levings, Megan K; Meade, Maureen O; Tibbles, Lee Anne; Weiss, Matthew

Keywords: Hematopoietic Cells; Immune Tolerance; Increasing Donation; Inflammation; Long-Term Outcomes; Organ Donation; Organ Repair And Allocation; Solid Organs/Cells; Transplant Complications; Transplantation

$2,400,000

One - Transplant - for - life Canada (TransplantCAN) / Transplantation - pour - la - Vie Canada

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Networks of Centres of Excellence - Letters of Intent

Principal investigators: West, Lori

$25,000

Crowd-sourcing multiple tolerizing cell types to induce robust transplant tolerance in mice: towards a clinically relevant approach

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: West, Lori J

Keywords: Abo Blood Group; Cell And Tissue Imaging; Cell Therapy; Cell Trafficking; Graft-Versus-Host Disease; Heart Transplantation; Immune Regulation And Development; Immune Tolerance; Lymphohematopoietic Cells; Neonate

$100,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Lori West

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

T-Cell Engager-Mediated HLA Antibody Depletion before Kidney Transplantation.

Co-design in action: lessons learned from transplant patient and family engagement in an integrated knowledge translation strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deceased Organ Donation and Transplantation in LIMC: A Meeting Report.

Posttransplant outcomes with prolonged donor heart ischemic time in the pediatric population.

Repeat ABO-B-incompatible living-donor kidney transplantation.

ABO-incompatible heart transplants in children aged 2-9 years: A new paradigm in transplant?

Evaluation of multiplexed liquid glycan Array (LiGA) for serological detection of glycan-binding antibodies.

The Authors' Perspective on 'Summary of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Consensus Conference on Emerging Understanding of Antibodies and Antibody-mediated Rejection in Heart Transplantation'.

Summary of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation consensus conference on emerging understanding of antibodies and antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation.

Rejection and graft vasculopathy secondary to effects of Crohn's disease in a heart-transplanted child.

Innovation after a century: Bead-based assay for ABO antibody detection

One - Transplant - for - life Canada (TransplantCAN) / Transplantation - pour - la - Vie Canada

Frequent collaborators

Anne Halpin

Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze

Bethany Foster

Dima Kabbani

Louise Pilote

Louise Pilote

Atul Humar

Anne Dipchand

Atul Humar

Alice Mui

Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

Ratmir Derda

Michael Stickland

Pierre Boulanger

Daniel Buchman

Zamaneh Kassiri

Darren Freed

Vathany Kulasingam

Timothy Caulfield

Gina Dimitropoulos

Jennifer Stinson