Fellow

Peter Friend, Professor of Transplantation at the University of Oxford, has transformed the field of transplantation through ground-breaking research, innovation, commercialization and clinical translation of improvements in organ perfusion. He led the research from conception, proof-of-principle, to provision of high-level evidence through the first randomized trial comparing normothermic machine perfusion to conventional cold storage in liver transplantation. The technology he patented is now in clinical use in every liver transplant centre in the UK and 11 countries across 4 continents. Professor Friend has fundamentally altered the perceived frontiers of organ preservation to maximise organ utilisation and improve patient benefit worldwide.