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Biography: Professor Peter Butler

June 10, 2019 By Muholan Kanapathy

Invited speaker at the National Plastic Surgery Research Forum Meeting July 2019

Professor Peter Butler is Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and director of the Wolfson Centre for Reconstructive Surgery. He is interested in complex reconstructive problems. One of his main research interests is in the treatment of fibrotic conditions which parallels a large clinical patient practice with various difficult fibrotic conditions. He has developed stem cell based therapeutic solutions for the treatment of patients with fibrosis secondary to Scleroderma, Post Cancer Radiotherapy, Lichen Sclerosis, Graft Versus Host Disease and Burn Injury. His other research interest is in the development and application of Tissue Engineering, 3D Bioprinting and Nanotechnology as well as Facial Allotransplantation.

After medical qualification he pursued his research interests as a fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School working with Andrew Lee and David Sachs at MGH as well as Charles and Jay Vacanti at Harvard and Bob Langer in MIT.  He completed his clinical training in London and New York and on his appointment at the Royal Free Hospital and University College Hospitals in 1999 set up an active research group at the UCL Royal Free campus. He developed and directs the MSc programme in Burns Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

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