Todd Astor

Dr. Todd Astor is a physician, scientist, and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the fields of organ failure and transplantation. For the past 12 years he has served as the Medical Director of the Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and recently founded a start-up biomedical company, Biomembretics, Inc. Prior to coming to MGH, Dr. Astor started a novel lung and heart-lung transplant center with a focus on the transplantation of patients with advanced congenital cardiopulmonary disease at the Nationwide Children's Hospital/ Ohio State University Medical Center. He is internationally recognized for his direction of a number of pioneering clinical and research endeavors, including heart-lung transplantation on the youngest recipient worldwide, the first pediatric domino heart transplantation in the United States, the first uses of combined lung-kidney transplantation and ambulatory ECMO in New England, and a unique approach to diagnosing complications in the lung allografts of infant lung transplant recipients. His interests have focused on the development of innovative therapeutic approaches to treating/ preventing organ failure and allograft rejection. He has been recognized as a leader in the development of regional and national policies governing organ transplantation, previously serving as the Chairman of the Ohio solid Organ Transplant Consortium and Massachusetts Lung Transplant Consortium, and as the New England representative on both the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Thoracic Transplantation Committee and UNOS Lung Review Board. He recently received an M.B.A. degree from M.I.T. and has been utilizing this training to combine disruptive diagnostic and therapeutic technologies with creative systems of healthcare delivery to forge more collaborative pathways between academia and the life sciences industries.