John Neoptolemos#
| Membership Number: | 5094 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/chirurgische-klinik-zentrum/allgemein-viszeral-und-transplantationschirurgie |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6201-7399 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 Professor of Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg
- 2009 Director, Cancer Research UK Liverpool Centre, England
- 2007 Scientific Director NIHR Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit, England
- 2007 Deputy Director of the CRUK and NIHR Liverpool Experimental Cancer Centre, England
- 1996 Director of the Liverpool Clinical and then Cancer Research UK Trials Unit, University of Liverpool, England
- 1996 Professor of Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery, then School of Cancer Studies, University of Liverpool, England
- 1994 Professor of Surgery, University of Birmingham, England
- 1987 Senior Lecturer, then Reader, Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham
- 1977 Surgical trainee, Senior House Officer, Registrar and Senior Registrar, University of Leicester, England
- 1976 House Surgeon, Guy's Hospital, London, England
Fields of Scholarship
- Clinical and translational research in acute pancreatitis
- Clinical and translational research in pancreatic cancer
- Genetics of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
- Clinical and translational research in chronic pancreatitis
- Pancreatic surgery
- Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, adjuvant, neoadjuvant, chemotherapy, necrosectomy, pancreatectomy, PRSS1, SPINK1, hENT1, endoscopic sphincterotomy.
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Henry Lynch Award for Inherited Pancreas Diseases
- 2017 Ruth Brufsky Award for Pancreas Cancer Research
- 2015 Honorary Professor of Nanjing Medical University
- 2014 Honorary Professor of the First School of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing Medical University
- 2014 Honorary Fellow of the Hungary Society of Surgery
- 2013 Health Services Journal National Award Winner to the Pancreas Unit (Acute Services Sector)
- 2013 European Pancreas Club, Life Time Achievement Award
- 2012 Honorary Fellow of the Germany Society of Surgery
- 2012 Freedom of the City of Liverpool as Director Cancer Research UK Liverpool Centre
- 2011 National Institutes of Health (NIHR) Senior Investigator
- 2007 Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2005 Hirschberg Award for Pancreatic Cancer, American Pancreatic Association
- 1991 Honorary membership of South African Gastroenterology Society
- 1988 Moynihan Travelling Fellowship, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
- 1987 Rodney Smith Prize, Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- 1987 Hunterian Professor of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England
