Department of Surgery

With an emphasis on 'bench to bedside' clinical research, discover how our small, expert team are flourishing and shaping real advances in medical treatment.

We have a limited number of opportunities for research based postgraduate degrees in:  

If you want to work with us, whether as a student, visitor or collaborator, please contact the Principal Investigator who works in the area that interests you.

Our research themes

Our principal research interests are: 

  • transplantation
  • stem cell medicine
  • surgical oncology
  • orthopaedic surgery  

Wider research interests linked to the department include ear, nose and throat surgery, ophthalmic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery and vascular surgery.  

Research into other surgical fields is also ongoing at the University under the management of other departments, for example neurosurgery under the Department of Neurosciences. 

Our principle investigators:

  • Mr Paul Gibbs - Transplantation: pg244@cam.ac.uk
  • Dr Sarah Hosgood - Transplantation - preservation techniques and ischaemia reperfusion (I/R) injury in kidney transplantation: sh744@cam.ac.uk
  • Dr Vasilis Kosmoliaptsis - Transplantation - kidney, pancreas and liver transplantation: vk256@cam.ac.uk
  • Professor Mike Nicholson - Transplantation and endocrine surgery, live donor nephrectomy and renal transplantation: mln31@cam.ac.uk
  • Mr Gavin Pettigrew - Transplantation and transplant rejection: gjp25@cam.ac.uk
  • Professor Kourosh Saeb-Parsy - Transplantation - Transplanted regenerative cellular therapies, translational research, clinical outcomes and ischaemia-reperfusion injury: ks10014@cam.ac.uk
  • Dr Vincent Gnanapragasam - Urology - Prostate Cancer: vjg29@cam.ac.uk
  • Professor Grant Stewart - Surgical oncology - kidney cancer, renal cell cancer, translational research, biomarker development, clinical trials, window-of-opportunity trials, neoadjuvant trials, adjuvant trials, screening, device trials: gds35@cam.ac.uk
  • Dr Mark Birch - Trauma and Orthopaedics - bone and cartilage biology; mesenchymal stem cells; cell-biomaterial interactions; nano/microscale biomaterial fabrication: mab218@cam.ac.uk
  • Mr Wasim Khan - Trauma and Orthopaedics - Knee, trauma, orthopaedics, cartilage, meniscus, stem cells, chondrocytes, chondrogenesis, tissue engineering: wk280@cam.ac.uk
  • Professor Andrew McCaskie - Trauma and Orthopaedics - tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: awm41@cam.ac.uk
  • Mr Stephen McDonnell - Trauma and Orthopaedics - osteoarthritis, traumatology, knee, orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine, arthroscopy, hip, articular cartilage, chondrocytes, knee injury: sm2089@cam.ac.uk

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Department of Surgery 
School of Clinical Medicine

University of Cambridge
Level E9 Addenbrookes Hospital
Hills Road 
Cambridge 
CB2 0QQ

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Email patohodsurgery@medschl.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions.