Biography
Professor Igor Konstantinov graduated from the Military Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia in 1992. After completion his clinical training in Cardiothoracic Surgery in the world’s leading institutions, that included the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA and Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, IK obtained PhD (2004) in molecular biology from the University of Toronto for his thesis titled “Gene Expression in Cardiac Surgery: Impact of Ischaemia and Re-perfusion”. Prof Konstantinov held an academic appointment of Associate (2007-2008) and Adjunct (2008-2011) Professor of Surgery, University of Western Australia. Since 2008, Prof Konstantinov is Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Professor, University of Melbourne, and Senior Research Fellow of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Since 2015, he is Director of the National Paediatric Heart Transplantation Transcriptome Bank.
