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Sir Peter Morris

Sir Peter Morris is Nuffield Professor of Surgery Emeritus, and former Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Director of the Oxford Transplant Centre, University of Oxford.

He is now president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and is also Chairman of the Council of the institute of Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

His professional scientific career has revolved around transplantation and transplantation biology, with a major interest in the immune response to histocompatibility antigens and its suppression.

He is former President of the International Transplantation Society and the British Transplantation Society, and has received a number of prizes for his work includingthe Lister Medal.

He is the editor of Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, which is now in its 5th edition, and the widely acclaimed Oxford Textbook of Surgery, which is in its 2nd edition.

In addition to his work in transplantation, in the earlier part of his career, he made many contributions to knowledge of the association between HLA disease, as well as playing a major part in the early anthropological studies of HLA around the Pacific rim.In 1996 he received a knighthood from the Quen for services to medicine.

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