Biography
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Prof. Friend trained under Prof. Roy Calne at Cambridge and then lead that program as the Clinical Director for more than a decade. In 1999, he took reigns of the University of Oxford program, where he was Chair of Transplantation and the Director, Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford University Hospitals. With over 350 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, his Google Scholar h-index is 84 and over 26,000 citations, his contributions to clinical transplantation and translational science are unrivaled. He has received continuous government and industry funding for more than 30 years. He has held leadership positions in a number of transplant and surgical societies, including President of the British Transplant Society, vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons (England) and advisor to NHS Blood & Transplant. He co-founded the spin-out company, OrganOx, from the University of Oxford in 2008, in order to commercialize the isolated organ perfusion technology, which he had developed in the research laboratory over the previous 15 years. He was a director and the Chief Medical Officer of the company until its acquisition by the Terumo Corporation in 2025.
