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Winston Wicomb, PhD, LATG
Senior Scientist / Animal Facility Manager
Winston Wicomb is a Senior Scientist and the Animal Facility
Manager at IDRI. Winston is a biochemist with over twenty
years of experience in biochemistry and transplantation
research in the fields of heart, liver, and kidney
preservation. To date, he has over sixty publications on his
work in heart preservation. Prior to joinging IDRI,
Winston supervised the laboratories of the late Christian
Barnard in South Africa, and Dr. G. Collins at the California
Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Winston has served as the lead biochemist
involved in chemical processing of porcine and bovine
tissues for clinical transplantation. He has a broad
knowledge of animal care, has chaired IACUC committees
since the early 1990s, and also serves as the chair of IDRI's
IACUC committee.
Winston received his PhD in Medical Biochemistry from
Cape Town University in South Africa.
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