About Us

Joren C. Madsen graduated from Brown University in 1977 and received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1982. From 1982 to 1990, Dr. Madsen trained as a surgical intern and resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Between 1985 and 1988, he studied transplantation immunology in the Department of Surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford under Sir Professor Peter J. Morris and Professor Kathryn Wood. This led to a D. Phil. (Ph.D. equivalent) in Immunology from Balliol College Oxford University.  In 1993, Dr. Madsen completed a three-year fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston's Children's Hospital. He then joined the Division of Cardiac Surgery at MGH to practice adult and pediatric cardiac surgery with an emphasis in cardiac transplantation. At that time, he also joined the Transplantation Biology Research Center and in 1996 was made Senior Investigator and Director of the Cardiothoracic Transplantation Laboratory. In 1999, Dr. Madsen was made an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Surgical Director of the Cardiac Transplantation at the Massachusetts General Hospital.Dr. Madsen's research interests include the transplantation tolerance, chronic rejection, xenotransplantation and stem cell biology. In 2002, he received the Fujisawa Basic Science Award from the American Society of Transplantation for his contributions to the field.