Head of section: Per Pfeffer

The department is involved in multiple studies, single center and multi center studies, such as the CENTRAL-study, the AEB-study and OSAKA-study. The trainees participate both as study investigators and as co-investigators.

The department has a teaching function for medical students, as well as visiting undergraduates from other universities.

Our section collaborates closely with The Institute for Surgical Research, which is both a university institute at the University in Oslo as well as a department at Rikshospitalet.
Members of the research staff at the Section of Transplant Surgery are leading the following research groups at the Institute for Surgical Research (NB - the links below go to web pages under the Institute for Surgical Research web site):

• Cell transplantation: lead by Aksel Foss, MD, PhD, MHA
• Experimental microsurgery and Transplantation Group: lead by Pål-Dag Line, Chairman, MD, PhD, Head of Clinic, Division of Surgery
• Research Group for Transplantation and Malignancy: lead by Aksel Foss, MD, PhD, MHA