Dr. Alp Sener earned his Biology degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. Upon concluding his undergraduate studies, he obtained his PhD in renal physiology in 1999, followed by his MD in 2002 from the University of Calgary. Subsequently, Dr. Sener completed his Urology residency at Western University and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2007. Dr. Sener spent two years at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore as the American Society of Transplant Surgeons/Novartis Fellow in Transplantation. While in Maryland, he was trained in kidney and pancreas transplantation and completed a research fellowship in transplant immunology. Dr. Sener joined the Departments of Surgery and Microbiology & Immunology in 2009 and was the first surgeon to receive the Schulich Clinician Scientist award from Western University.

Dr. Sener has been the recipient of local, national and international research contribution awards including the Western University Dean’s Award of Excellence, the Canadian Society of Transplantation Research Excellence Award and the Vanguard Award from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. He has received over $16M in total grant funding as PI and Co-PI and has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts. Dr. Sener is the Keith and Leanne Lavergne Chairman of Urology at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Chief of Urology at London Health Sciences Center and St. Joseph’s Health Care London and is the past Director of the Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Fellowship program at Western University.

In addition to a general urology and kidney/pancreas transplant directed clinical practice, Dr. Sener maintains an active basic sciences and translational research laboratory focusing on the innate and adaptive immune responses in graft rejection as well as in developing novel methods of mitigating organ injury associated with transplantation and is the pioneer of the use of hydrogen sulphide therapy in modulating organ ischemia reperfusion injury. Dr. Sener holds the inaugural Andrew Lazarovits Chair in Immunobiology and Transplantation at Western University.  He is the founder of the Canadian Association of Chairs of Surgical Research and is heavily involved in promoting research and education through his active leadership roles on several committees in both urology and transplant organizations at the national and international levels.