Ronald D. Guttmann is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and former Founding Director of the McGill University Centre for Clinical Immunobiology and Transplantation. He is a cofounder, Director, and Executive Vice President of Clinical and International Development, of BioMosaics Inc., a cancer biomarker company. Dr. Guttmann was the Director of the first multidisciplinary Transplant Service in Canada at the Royal Victoria Hospital (1970). Dr. Guttmann is an author of >310 original publications and has been an active consultant in the biomedical and biotechnology industry since 1985. He is a co-founder of and was the first President of the American Society of Transplantation, former Vice-president of The (International) Transplantation Society, President of the XVll World Congress of The Transplantation Society (Montreal 1998). His awards include the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Society of Transplantation (1996), Lifetime Achievement Award of the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India (1996), and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Society of Transplantation (2001).