Curie Ahn, M.D., Ph.D
Prof. Emeritus, Seoul National University
Prof. Division of Nephrology, National Medical Center
Secretary-General, Asian Society of Transplantation
President, Raphael Nanum Foundation, Raphael International
Director, KOTRY (the Korean Organ Transplantation Registry)
Councilor, The Transplantation Society
Past president, Vitallink
Member, WHO Task Force Team
Member, Women in Transplantation
Seoul, Korea
Dr. Curie Ahn, MD, Ph.D., is a nephrologist based in Seoul, Korea. She currently serves as a Councilor of The Transplantation Society and
is the Secretary General of the Asian Society of Transplantation. She has previously served as a Councilor with WIT, DICG, WHO Task Force Team,
and IXA, and she is presently a member of the ISN-TTS Sister Program.
Her main interests in transplantation include enhancing deceased donor organ transplantation in Asia and promoting evidence-based clinical research through organ transplant registries. To increase organ transplantation capacity in Asia,
she founded the NGO VitalLink in 2009 and has been actively involved in medical capacity-building programs for living and deceased kidney transplantation in many Asian countries over the past 15 years.
As the former Chair of the Korean Society of Transplantation, she founded the international congress, Asian Transplantation Week,
to promote organ transplantation in Asia. Additionally, she leads the Raphael Nanum Foundation, an NGO dedicated to medical volunteerism.
Dr. Ahn founded the Korean Organ Transplantation Registry (KOTRY) and the Asian Transplantation Registry (ASTREG),
online databases for Korea and Asia. As a nephrologist, she established national cohorts for CKD (KNOW-CKD) and ADPKD, and she has been a pioneer in xenotransplantation research in Korea for over 20 years.
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