Christian Larsen, M.D., D. Phil

Dr. Larsen is the Director of the Emory Transplant Center and is the Carlos & Marguerite Mason Professor of Surgery at Emory University. He is an active clinical transplant surgeon performing kidney and pancreas transplants. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Emory University and his D. Phil (PhD).at the University of Oxford in England. His work as a scientific investigator at Emory has focused on the biology of transplant rejection and the development of strategies to promote transplant acceptance without long-term immunosuppression (transplantation tolerance). In collaboration with Dr. Thomas Pearson, he leads an active pre-clinical transplant research program at the Yerkes Primate Research Center. The Mason Trust, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and industry have supported these studies. In March of 2003, Dr. Larsen and team performed the first islet transplant in Georgia. The team successfully performed fifteen transplant procedures in eight patients by mid-2005. Along with Emory's talented gastrointestinal surgeons the islet transplant team has also developed an autologous islet transplant program to benefit patients with debilitating chronic pancreatitis.

Emory Transplant Center

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