Madita Buch

“I am a trainee transplant surgeon at the Surgical Department of Professor Schneeberger at the Medical University of Innsbruck. I am honoured to receive the support of ESOT through this highly respected grant. The fellowship will give me the unique opportunity to join the Forbes Group of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. The Forbes Group has already identified a biosignature that occurs exclusively in livers that develop biliary complications after liver transplantation. With the help of the ESOT grant, we want to verify this signature and, in further steps, test a prototype that will assess the viability of the bile duct system. Our goal is to provide this assessment during organ procurement as a point-of-care-test and, therefore, help surgeons to an informed decision, thereby improving the selection process and reducing biliary complication rates. I am very grateful for all the support that I have received from Innsbruck and Edinburgh, who made this fellowship possible. Thank you.”