Winston Wicomb

Biography

Winston Wicomb is the director of all animal studies and serves as chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at IDRI. He is also the manager of the vivarium staff. Winston is a biochemist with over 20 years of experience in biochemistry and transplantation research in the fields of heart, liver, and kidney preservation. Winston also served on the team that flew the first human heart for transplantation using continuous hypothermic perfusion. To date, he has over 60 publications on his work in heart, kidney and liver preservation. Prior to joining IDRI, Winston supervised the laboratories of the late Christian Barnard in South Africa, and Dr. G. Collins at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Winston has served as the lead biochemist involved in chemical processing of porcine and bovine tissues for clinical transplantation. He has a broad knowledge of animal care, and chaired three IACUC committees since the early 1990s.. Winston received his Ph.D. in Medical Biochemistry from Cape Town University in South Africa.

Research Interest

Transplantation research in the fields of heart, liver, and kidney preservation