Speakers

Pankaj is a post cct transplant fellow and a research fellow at King’s College London and Institute of Child Health, UCL having completed his PhD in overcoming immunological and surgical barriers in complex transplantation. His scientific interests are in machine perfusion of human organs for therapeutic manipulation, regeneration and repair and complex paediatric transplantation. He is active in public engagement in science and education especially for under-represented groups. He has been the British Science Association’s Charles Darwin Award Lecturer and has received The Royal College of Surgeons of England Lister Medal and Prize and The Royal Society of Medicine Norman Tanner Medal. He has made appearances for BBC and film and BBC World Service Radio and set up the UK's first Children's Transplant Choir with BBC Children in Need. He was also medical director and advisor to the Netflix Series The Crown and even acted in several episodes! He has made several short films and works closely with The Science Museum and The Hunterian Museum. In 2023, Pankaj was awarded the prestigious Hunterian Professorship by The Royal College of Surgeons of England as well as the King’s Health Partners Bulkley Barry Cooper Professorship Lecture. He was elected a Fellow of The Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, having been awarded their Combined Royal Colleges Medal for advances in imaging sciences