Jill Davis
Director of the Cryopreservation
University Hospitals NHS
UK
Biography
Jill Davies graduated from Coventry University in 1987 with a degree in Applied Biology. After university she worked for cardiothoracic surgeons Mr Donald Ross & Sir Magdi Yacoub at the National Heart Hospital in London and that she opened the heart valve bank at the Oxford University Hospital in Oxford, England in 1990. The Oxford bank supplies cardiovascular tissue, corneas for transplant and research and brains & spinal cords for research. It is now also an Oxford Research Center Bio bank.She is also an executive member of the BATB, member of AATB, SLTB, Society for Cryobiology.
Research Interest
Cryobiology, Biobanking