Dr Ramin Shayan has been appointed the Director of the O’Brien Research Institute at St. Vincent’s Institute for Medical Research, Australia’s only dedicated plastic surgery research institute.

The research conducted at the O’Brien Institute focuses on using stem cells and molecular biology for regenerative surgery and tissue engineering. The disease focus includes tissue engineering for breast reconstruction, lymphoedema, and radiation injury after breast cancer – the diseases that result from cancer treatment – the so called “disease of cancer survivorship”.