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AbdAllah Daar

Dr. Daar is Professor of Public Health Sciences and of Surgery at the University of Toronto , where he is also Director of the Program in Applied Ethics and Biotechnology, co-Director of the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health and Director of Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine.

After medical school in London , England , he went to the University of Oxford where he did postgraduate clinical training in surgery and also in internal medicine, a doctorate in transplant immunology/immunogenetics, and a fellowship in transplantation. He was a clinical lecturer in Oxford for several years before going to the Middle East to help start two medical schools. He took up the foundation Chair of Surgery in Oman in 1988, where he also headed the research labs.

He has published/co-authored four books (on tumour markers; surgical radiology; ethical, legal and social issues in organ transplantation; and most recently, bioindustry ethics) and has over 250 publications in immunology, immunogenetics, transplantation, surgery, and bioethics. He wrote (with J-F Mattei) the WHO Draft Guiding Principles on Medical Genetics and Biotechnology. He has been an expert advisor to WHO and OECD, and is currently chair of the External Review Committee of the WHO/World Bank/UNDP/UNICEF Special Program on Tropical Diseases Research and Training.

He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and is on the Ethics Committee of the (International) Transplantation Society and of the Human Genome Organization. He holds the official world record for performing the youngest cadaveric donor kidney transplant. Dr. Daar is a member of the Canadian Bioethics Advisory Committee's Expert Working Party on Human Genetic Materials, Intellectual Property and the Health Sector; and Health Canada's Expert Advisory Committee on Cells, Tissues and Organ Regulation.

In 1999 he was awarded the Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 2005 he was awarded the Anthony Miller Prize for Research Excellence at the University of Toronto and also the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics of Science. He has been a Visiting Scholar in Bioethics at Stanford University and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Editorial boards include Kidney Forum, Clinical Transplantation Proceedings, Globalization and Health, and Genomics, Society and Policy.

His current research interests are in ways of avoiding knowledge divides and in the exploration of how genomics and other biotechnologies can be used effectively to ameliorate global health inequities.

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