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Dr. Paulo Martins is an Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Massachusetts. Since 2013, Dr. Martins has been working as a transplant Surgeon at the University of Massachusetts and principal investigator at a transplant laboratory in the same institution. During his career he has obtained several research awards and grants and in 2015, he was indicted fellow of the American Society of Transplantation and 2017 fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has worked on experimental surgery since medical school and has focused his research on ischemia reperfusion injury and donor/graft modulation using small and large animal transplant models. Dr. Martins has trained microsurgeons and supervised several graduate students, residents, PhD students in the hospital and in his laboratory. He is an editorial board member of 3 scientific journals, ad-hoc reviewer of 10 medical journals, committee member of several organizations and member of 6 scientific/professional associations. Dr. Pedro Baptista is originally from Portugal, where he graduated from the School of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon. He completed his doctoral dissertation at the Gulbenkian Ph.D. Program in Biomedicine. He is currently a Group Leader at the Health Research Institute of Aragon in Zaragoza, Spain and the founder of the Organ Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at this institution. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical and Aerospace Engineering at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. He is one of the founders and the Deputy Chairman of the European Association for the Study of the Liver Consortium for Regenerative Hepatology and currently the Deputy Secretary General and an elected Board Governor of the European Society for Artificial Organs. His current research focuses on creating bioengineered livers that can finally make the long-term transplantation of these lab-grown organs a reality.Dr. Pedro Baptista is originally from Portugal, where he graduated from the School of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon. He completed his doctoral dissertation at the Gulbenkian Ph.D. Program in Biomedicine. He is currently a Group Leader at the Health Research Institute of Aragon in Zaragoza, Spain and the founder of the Organ Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at this institution. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical and Aerospace Engineering at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. He is one of the founders and the Deputy Chairman of the European Association for the Study of the Liver Consortium for Regenerative Hepatology and currently the Deputy Secretary General and an elected Board Governor of the European Society for Artificial Organs. His current research focuses on creating bioengineered livers that can finally make the long-term transplantation of these lab-grown organs a reality.