Rate My Professor Philip O'Connell

Professor Philip O’Connell is Executive Director of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, a position he has held since 2020. He is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney and previously served as Director of Transplantation at the University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital. O’Connell also directs the Centre for Transplant and Renal Research. His qualifications include MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACP, and FAHMS. As a clinician scientist, he leads research in renal research, nephrology, kidney care, the use of genomics for the development of biomarkers of renal allograft dysfunction, biomarker enrichment for clinical trials in renal transplantation, pancreatic islet transplantation, and xenotransplantation. He is the founding Director of the Australian Clinical Islet Transplant Consortium, past president of The Transplantation Society, and a member of the WHO Task Force on Donation and Transplantation. Professor O’Connell’s research is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. He has led WIMR research receiving an MRFF grant on January 31, 2024, and spearheaded new funding for an end-to-end precision medicine research pipeline in Westmead on September 10, 2024.