About
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Daniel Candinas has been director of the University Clinic for Visceral Surgery and Medicine at Inselspital Bern since 2011, where he heads the transplantation center and the Bern Liver Center; from 2016 to 2021 he also served as vice-rector for research at the University of Bern. He studied medicine at the University of Zurich (1981-1987) and earned his doctorate in 1991 with a thesis on quality control in elective surgery; he obtained his specialist certification in general surgery in 1994 and completed his habilitation in general and transplant surgery in Zurich in 1997. His clinical training included a fellowship in the liver unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (1993-1994) and a fellowship and instructor position at Harvard Medical School (1994-1996), before he took on senior roles in Zurich and Birmingham. His research focuses on transplantation immunology, hepatic surgery, and cellular mechanisms of organ rejection, including the role of sex mismatch as a risk factor for chronic rejection of liver allografts and hypoxia-inducible signaling pathways.