A Transplant Journey
Professor Gabriel Oniscu, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 10.30am to 11.30am
Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, OX3 7DQ, and also online via Microsoft Teams
We are pleased to announce that Professor Gabriel Oniscu, Professor of Transplantation Surgery and Head of the Transplant Division at the Karolinksa Institute in Stockholm, has been shortlisted for the position of Chair of Transplantation in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences. Professor Oniscu will be visiting the Department on Wednesday 11 December and will be giving a lecture at 10:30am in the Richard Doll Lecture Theatre. All are welcome to attend and the meeting will also be run as a hybrid.
Biography
Gabriel Oniscu is Professor of Transplantation Surgery and Head of Transplant Division at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He completed his surgical and transplant training in Edinburgh, Birmingham and Kings College London and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians in Glasgow. He is the past Director of the Edinburgh Transplant Centre and former Transplant Advisor to the Chief Medical Officer in Scotland.
His clinical focus is multi-organ transplantation and living donation. Gabriel has been one of the pioneers in the field of novel organ perfusion and preservation technologies and has made a significant contribution to the development of Normothermic Regional Perfusion in DCD donation.
He has a particular research interest in the role of technology in transplantation, organ perfusion and reconditioning and has set up the Karolinska Organ Perfusion and Translational Research Centre. Professor Oniscu has received more than €6 million in research funding and is the recipient of an NRS Career Research Fellowship, an MRC confidence in concept award for technological developments relating to normothermic perfusion and an MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnership grant to investigate therapy delivery during ex situ organ perfusion.
He published 148 papers, 20 book chapters, edited two books and gave more than 100 invited lectures at international conferences. Professor Oniscu is the President of the European Society for Organ Transplantation.
All members of the University and NHS clinical staff are welcome.
Please email Louise King if you would like to attend online.