Dr. Steven Paraskevas
Advisors - Scientific Advisory Board
Management
Sernova Corp
Canada
Biography
Dr Paraskevas earned a BA in Biology at Harvard University in 1988, and obtained his MD and completed General Surgery residency at McGill. During that time, he also studied mechanisms of cell death in transplanted human islets, completing a PhD in Experimental Surgery at McGill in 2003. Based on this work, he earned the Scientific Trainee Award of the Canadian Diabetes Association in 1997. After residency, he completed a two-year fellowship in abdominal solid-organ transplantation at the University of Minnesota, where he was also involved in the clinical islet transplant program under Dr Bernhard Hering. He returned to McGill in 2002 and is currently Associate Professor in Surgery and member of the multi-organ transplant program. His current research focuses on methods to improve islet survival of human islets, paralleling the focus of Sernova's proprietary technologies. He is a Councillor-at-large of the Canadian Society of Transplantation and Chair of the Cell Transplant Committee of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Research Interest
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