Rolando Rebolledo

• Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering

• Organ preservation for transplantation
• Ex vivo hepatic perfusion
• Ischemia-reperfusion damage

Dr. Rebolledo is a surgeon from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, specialized in digestive surgery. D. program at the University of Chile, focusing on liver surgery, liver transplantation, surgical challenges and the study of cancer. He was then part of the Abel Tasman Talent PhD exchange program at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where his interest in organ enhancement for transplantation would emerge. After his return to Chile, he worked as a digestive surgeon at the Hospital Sótero del Río and as an academic at the IIBM. In the latter, he opened his own line of research, leading a Fondecyt project on the perfusion of organs for transplants in poor conditions, as a mechanism to improve their preservation. His study is focused on the creation of an ex vivo perfusion machine, mainly in cases of liver transplants, and on the development, together with other academics, of substances that allow the oxygenation of an organ without the need for red blood cells.