Professor Constantin Coussios FREng
Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford
Constantin Coussios is the Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford. He received the 2017 Silver Medal of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the translation of novel medical technologies into clinical practice.
In 2008, he co-founded OrganOx Ltd, which developed the world’s first normothermic liver perfusion device for organ preservation (Nature 2018). In 2014, he was the lead academic founder of OxSonics Ltd, which exploits nanobubbles for ultrasound-enhanced oncological drug delivery (Lancet Oncology 2018). In 2016, he co-founded OrthoSon Ltd, to enable minimally invasive intervertebral disc replacement.