Meet the People Behind Our Mission
At VPS, we’re united by a single mission: to make more organs transplantable and save more lives. Get to know the team bringing our vision to life.
Advancing Organ Transplantation
VPS believes that machine perfusion devices for preserving organs should be simple, portable, and available to every patient who needs one. We envision a world where no viable organ goes unused, and where transplantation is possible regardless of geography, background, or circumstance.
Our mission is to make that vision real by expanding equitable access to organ preservation.
Our Team
We bring together a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and industry advisors dedicated to solving one of transplantation’s most persistent problems: how to preserve organs longer, safer, and more affordably.
Leadership
Core Team
Board Members
Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board
Cardiothoracic, Surgeon, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Surgical director of the heart transplant program at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Cardiothoracic, Surgeon, Naples Italy
Chair of Gordon Conference in Cardiac Preservation
Board of Directors for ESOT
Former President and CEO of UT Medicine SA
Medical Director of the Pediatric ICUs at University Hospital and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital
Founding Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
Senior Vice President of Research and Development, Therapeutics BioAffinity Technologies
Associate VP and Inaugural Director of the Military Health Institute at UT Health San Antonio
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Executive Director at the Center for Device Innovation at Texas Medical Center in Houston
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