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Professor Paolo De Coppi is the Nuffield Chair of Paediatric Surgery and NIHR Professor of Paediatric Surgery at University College London. He also serves as Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Head of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. He earned his MD with honours in 1997 and his PhD from the University of Padua in Italy, where he later held an honorary assistant professorship in paediatric surgery. His career includes appointments as Honorary Professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven since 2013 and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine since 2009.

Professor De Coppi’s research focuses on stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine for the treatment of congenital malformations in children. He contributed to the first cell-based tissue-engineered tracheal replacement performed in a child in 2010. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in journals including The Lancet, Nature Biotechnology and PNAS. In 2024 he was named to the TIME100 Health List. He coordinates the EU Horizon 2020 INTENS consortium on stem cell research for short bowel syndrome and serves as Senior Associate Editor of Stem Cells Translational Medicine, with editorial roles on several other journals.