Charité Experimental Liver Berlin

Charité Experimental Surgery and Regenerative Medicine | Sauer et al.

Liver Surgery Sauer Transplantation
Igor M. Sauer documents the scientific work of his group Experimental Surgery and Regenerative Medicine at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany. Igor Maximilian Sauer is a transplant surgeon at the Department of General Visceral and Transplantation Surgery Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (head: Prof. P. Neuhaus). Beside his clinical work he is directing research in the field of Experimental Surgery and Regenerative Medicine. His research group has focused on cell based therapies and extracorporeal liver support devices for more than a decade. He developed and improved extracorporeal liver support systems based on detoxification techniques and primary human hepatocytes tracking technology for transplanted hepatocytes as well as procedures for decellularization and recellularization of liver tissue. His unit has extensive experience in liver cell culture techniques and provides expertise in large scale human hepatocyte isolation and bioreactor culture. Igor Sauer has a special interest in artificial organs and is a patentee in the field. He is author of more than 90 publications in international peer reviewed journals and book chapters in the field of artificial organs cell culture liver support devices and transplantation. Dr. Sauer is governor of the European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO) head of the Working Group Liver Support of the ESAO. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Department of General Visceral and Transplantation Surgery under the direction of P. Neuhaus MD. Prior to this he was a general surgery resident at the Clinic for Visceral and Transplantation Surgery at the Hanover Medical School (former Director: R. Pichlmayr MD). He began researching in his chosen field under EM Bücherl MD with the development of an implantable total artificial heart. Igor Sauer is a graduate of the Charité Medical School.