Oxford's transplant expert Prof Sir Peter Morris has been appointed President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Sir Peter, who launched the Oxford Transplant Centre in 1975, is the first Oxford University academic to be elected to the post in the college's 200-year history.
Sir Peter became the Nuffield Professor of Surgery in 1974 and oversaw the city's first kidney transplant a year later.
Since then, 1,800 renal transplants have taken place at the transplant centre, which is based at the Churchill, in Headington.
Sir Peter will take up the three-year presidency on Tuesday, July 12.
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