Welcome to our very first podcast, brought to you by the Young Professionals in Transplantation (YPT). In this first series of podcasts, we will interview transplant professionals across Europe to bring their experiences directly to you, tackling important issues around career development in the field of transplantation. The podcasts are deliberately short, enabling you to listen on-the-go, wherever you are!

In this first podcast, we start with a tribute to Dr Sevda Hassan, Chair of YPT, who sadly passed away just before this podcast launched. She had listened to the recording a few days before she passed and was excited by the upcoming series. Sevda inspired us all to be better and will leave a huge void in the European Transplant community. 

The guest of this podcast is Dr Nina Pilat, who is well known to many of you at ESOT and is an Associate Professor at the University of Vienna. Dr Pilat has successfully applied to several research grants based on her work into Treg-induced transplantation tolerance and is the Chair of the Basic Science Committee of ESOT.

Dr Pilat talks about her experience of grant writing over the years with great advice for young researchers. Based on Dr Pilat's personal experiences, the podcast discusses the general principles of successful grant writing and how to handle rejection.

 If you are looking for inspiration, this is a must listen to all budding transplant professionals.