John J. Fung, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of the UChicago Medicine Transplantation Institute.  Prior to that, he served as Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Health System Center for Transplantation, as well as the former Director of the Thomas Starzl Transplant Institute at the University of Pittsburgh.  With 40 years of involvement in abdominal and cellular transplantation, he is also an accomplished immunologist. 

He is a member of numerous scientific and surgical societies and served as President of the International Liver Transplantation Society from 1997-1999.  He is currently President of the Transplantation Society.  He has published over 1,400 articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of multiple medical journals.  His principal research interests are in transplantation immunology, immunosuppressive therapies, and liver related immunology.  In addition, he has received numerous prestigious lay and professional awards.  His research interests are in transplant immunology, liver immunity, immnosuppression, and outcomes analysis.