Peter Friend
Vice President and Professor of Transplantation, University of Oxford
Peter Friend was appointed Vice President and Trustee of RCS England in 2023. He was appointed in 1999 to the Chair of Transplantation at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Green Templeton College, and consultant in Transplant and Hepatobiliary surgery at Oxford University Hospitals. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2020).
He trained at the University of Cambridge and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and carried out junior hospital posts in London and East Anglia. After specialist training, he worked as Visiting Assistant Professor of Surgery, Indiana University, USA, returning to the UK as Lecturer in Surgery, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine at Magdalene College.
In Oxford in 1999, as well clinical activities, he established a translational research group focusing on organ preservation/reconditioning and novel immunosuppressive strategies. He is author of more than 300 papers on clinical and scientific aspects of transplantation and general surgery. As Director of the Oxford Transplant Centre, he introduced new clinical programmes including pancreatic and intestinal transplantation. Previous appointments include President of the British Transplantation Society, Thames Valley Training Programme Director (General Surgery) and Council member (Europe) of the Transplantation Society.
In 2008 he co-founded OrganOx Ltd, a spin-out company from the University of Oxford, established to translate University research in the area of normothermic organ perfusion into clinical practice.