Speaker: Professor Peter Friend, Professor of Transplantation, Director, Oxford Transplant Centre, England

Improved clinical success has increased the demand for transplantation, and this necessitates the transplantation of organs from increasingly sub-optimal donors. However static cold storage – the standard of care in clinical transplantation for the last 50 years – is effective in ‘ideal’ donor organs, but not for the ‘marginal’ organs that are now an important part of clinical practice. On the other hand, Normothermic perfusion avoids prolonged cooling of the organ, minimises exposure to hypoxia, and allows functional assessment of organ viability before committing a patient to surgery. Clinical results in liver, lung and heart transplantation suggest that this approach may enable more patients to receive transplants without compromising the outcome.

Registration & breakfast at 7.10am, talk begins at 7.40am.