Professor Nagy Habib ChM FRCS
Liver Surgery Section,
Department of Cancer Surgery Division of Surgery,
Oncology, Reproductive Biology & Anaesthetics,
Imperial College London,
1st Floor B Block,
Hammersmith Campus,
Du Cane Road,
London W12 0NN, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)20 8383 8574
Fax: +44 (0)20 8383 3212
e-mail: nagy.habib@imperial.ac.uk
Professor Habib received his medical education and training in Cairo, Egypt. Following his period of higher surgical training in the UK (Hammersmith, London), where he specialised in hepatic surgery (transplantation), he was appointed Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant. It was here that he expanded his research interests in the molecular biological role in the development of liver pathologies, with especial reference to the liver, and also to the relative importance of haematological/immunological influences in general pathogenesis.
He was appointed Professor of Hepato-biliary Surgery at the Hammersmith Hospital in 1999. As a result of incorporating a dedicated applied academic Haematology unit within the Department of Surgery at the Hammersmith, the first indications of a pre-cursor to the commonly accepted basic stem cell were identified and the concept of the omnicyte was established and subsequently confirmed. His interest in stem cells, and their potential for therapy, can be reflected in an interview he gave recently to the BBC.
Professor Habib currently holds 5 patents in his name, has written four books, contributed eighteen chapters within three others and has published over 300 papers in scientific journals. Click to view and download Prof. Habib's abbreviated or full CV
Professor Myrtle Y Gordon
Director of OmniCyte
Professor of Experimental Haematology
Division of Investigative Science
Imperial College
e-mail:Myrtle.Gordon@imperial.ac.uk
Professor Gordon has been an academic Haematologist for her entire career. She was part of Professor Mel Greaves' Leukaemia Research Fund unit within the Institute of Cancer Research (Cancer UK) for a number of years before transferring to the Hammersmith Hospital to take up the Chair of Experimental Haematology, allied to Professor Habib's department of Academic Surgery (q.v.). Professor Gordon has been key to identifying the omnicyte as a biological entity and for establishing a core unit of expertise that is able to fully exploit the potentials of stem cell therapy.