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Rolf Barth is a Professor at the University of Chicago and serves as the Director of Liver Transplantation and Associate Director of the University of Chicago Medicine Transplant Institute. His clinical practice focuses on kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation, with specific accomplishments in living donor kidney and liver transplantation. Barth pioneered minimally invasive surgery techniques for living kidney donation and has performed over 500 ‘scarless’ single-port laparoscopic donor nephrectomies. His research interests are both clinical and basic and include novel immunosuppressive therapies, immunologic tolerance, and the use of genetically engineered animal organs in human transplantation (xenotransplantation). Barth leads an active lab investigating transplant tolerance through pre-clinical models and aims to advance the clinical field of reconstructive transplantation.
Department of Philosophy