Dr. Adnan Sharif graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2002 and underwent his medical and nephrology training in Cardiff and Birmingham respectively, while achieving his research degree in the field of post-transplantation diabetes. He took up his Consultant Transplant Nephrologist post at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in 2011 and is Honorary Associate Professor in the Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy at the University of Birmingham. He has an active research focus with >180 peer-reviewed publications and is an invited speaker at national/international meetings. He is currently Chief Investigator on several prospective cohort and randomized clinical trials in nephrology and transplantation. He is on the Board of Trustees for Give A Kidney and the Global Kidney Foundation, and is a long-term member of the National BAME Transplantation Alliance which serves under-served ethnic minority communities. Dr. Sharif has represented Transplant Nephrology on the British Transplantation Society Council for 2020-2023. Finally, he is an executive team member and Co-Director of the UK Organ Donation and Transplant Research Network.