David K.c. Cooper MD, PhD

David Cooper studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School in London (now merged with King’s College London). He subsequently trained in general and cardiothoracic surgery in Cambridge and London, interrupting this training to carry out research for the PhD degree. He was present at the first heart transplant in the UK in 1968, and a member of the team that initiated the heart transplant program at Papworth Hospital in 1979. Between 1972 and 1980, he was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

The Royal College of Surgeons of England appointed him to a Hunterian Professorship (1983), Arris and Gale Lectureship (1988), Amott Lectureship (2002), and awarded him the 1997 Jacksonian Prize and Medal.Between 1994-7, he was Honorary Secretary/Treasurer of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. He was the Founding Honorary Secretary of the International Xenotransplantation Association IXA) in 1997, its President in 1999-2001, and the Editor-in-Chief of Xenotransplantation from 2001-7. In 2009, he was elected to Honorary Membership of the IXA.