Dr Marcelo Cypel

MD, MSc, FACS, FRCSC

  • Surgical Director , Ajmera Transplant Centre , University Health Network
  • Senior-Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute
  • Surgical Director , ECLS Program, University Health Network
  • Professor of Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, University of Toronto
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Bio

Marcelo Cypel is a Staff Thoracic Surgeon at University Health Network (UHN) and Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is the Surgical Director of the Ajmera Transplant Center and the director of the ECLS program at UHN. He received his MD in 1999 and completed his general surgery and thoracic surgery residency program in 2004. In 2005 he started his post-doctoral research fellowship at the Latner Thoracic Surgery Laboratory. During this time, he developed a new method of lung preservation and donor lung repair called Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP). This method is now used clinically in Toronto and in many other centers and has significantly increased the number of transplantable lungs.

Dr. Cypel currently holds the prestigious Canada Research Chair in Lung Transplantation from the Government of Canada, and he is the principal investigator in very innovative clinical trials, such as the use of uncontrolled donation after cardio-circulatory death for lung transplantation and in vivo lung perfusion with chemotherapy to treat patients with lung metastases. His main clinical interests are in minimal invasive thoracic surgery for lung cancer, treatment of pulmonary metastases, artificial lung devices and lung transplantation.