Dr Maria Kaisar obtained her DPhil in Transplantation Science from Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford. She is a senior researcher at University of Oxford and NHS Blood and Transplant leading research to identify novel markers to better assess donor organs and the biological mechanisms of organ injury and repair. Dr Kaisar is currently the Chair of Basic Science in the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) and the Councillor for Transplant Science at the British Transplant Society (BTS). She has received funding from Kidney Research UK to develop markers on Assessing Donor Kidneys and Monitoring Transplant Recipients (ADMIRE) using multi-omics and computational approaches to develop better tools of donor organ assessment.