Maria Kaisar

Maria Kaisar obtained her DPhil in Transplantation Science from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Benedikt Kessler and Professor Rutger Ploeg.

Her interests lie in basic and translational research to better understand the biological mechanisms that lead to donor organ injury or repair. Her collaborative work, within NHS Blood and Transplant and the University of Oxford, focuses on the development of novel diagnostics of donor organ quality to better assess deceased donors and donor organs prior to transplantation.

Maria holds the role of the Translational Research Coordinator and is a member of the National Management Team and the Steering Committee of the Consortium of Quality in Organ Donation (QUOD). She is a Board Member of the Basic Science Committee of the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT) and a member of The Transplantation Society (TTS) Educational Committee.

Professor Sue Francis, Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham 

Professor David Long, Professor in Paediatric Nephrology, University College London 

Dr Edward Sharples, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Helen Weavers, Associate Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Bristol 

Dr Katie Mylonas, Kidney Research UK (KRUK) Senior Research Fellow (with the Thompson Family Charitable Trust) and Principal Investigator, University of Edinburgh 

Professor Valeria Mas, Professor of Surgery, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and a cellular and molecular transplant immunologist, University of Maryland, USA 

Professor Rikke Norregaard, Professor of Translational Nephrology, University of Aarhus, Denmark