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Peter Friend

Chief Medical Officer at OrganOx

Peter is OrganOx Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, and has worked with Constantin and the OrganOx team for more than 20 years on the development of OrganOx's normothermic organ perfusion technology. Peter leads OrganOx's pre-clinical and clinical programmes of OrganOx's patented normothermic organ perfusion technology.

Peter is Professor of Transplantation at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Transplant Centre, where he is responsible for the kidney, small bowel and pancreatic transplant programmes. Earlier in his career Peter was Clinical Director of the Transplant Centre at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, one of the UK’s leading liver transplant centres and visiting Assistant Professor of Surgery at Indiana University Medical Centre, USA, where he established their liver transplant programme.

Peter's research interests lie primarily in novel applications of normothermic organ perfusion, ranging from its use for extracorporeal support to preservation and repair prior to transplantation. He has published over 25 papers on the topic of normothermic perfusion, the basis of the OrganOx technology, as well as in the areas of clinical transplantation, immunosuppression, monoclonal antibodies, xenotransplantation, liver perfusion and aspects of general surgery.


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