Mr. Pankaj Chandak

Pankaj is a higher London Deanery transplant trainee, currently at the Royal London Hospital and also post doctoral research fellow at the School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, KCL and Centre for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell/Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Child Health, UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. His scientific interests are machine perfusion of human organs for therapeutic intervention, regeneration and repair and complex paediatric transplantation. He is also active in public engagement in science. His research led to the first use of 3D printing for paediatric transplantation and also the first reported human model of antibody mediated rejection using warm machine perfusion published in Lancet's Ebiomedicine. He has been invited speaker to several societies including The Royal Society and The Royal Institution and has received several awards including The British Science Association Charles Darwin Award Lecture, The RCSEng Lister Medal and Prize, RCSEng Arnott Lecture and Medal and the RSM Norman Tanner Medal as well as the Cutler's Medal for innovation. He has made appearances for BBC film and World Service Radio and set up the UK's first Children's Transplant Choir with BBC Children in Need. He was Medical Director of the Netflix Series The Crown and has even acted in several episodes and has made several short films for the Science Museum, The Hunterian Museum as well as BBC NHS 75th Anniversary. In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England as well as the KCL Bulkley Barry Cooper Professorship Lecture. He was elected a Fellow of The Linnean Society (FLS) and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) having been awarded the Combined Royal Colleges RPS Medal for advances in medical imaging research from the all the U.K. Royal Colleges.