Caner Süsal graduated from Heidelberg University School of Medicine in 1986. He continued his career in the field of transplantation immunology at the same institution after his graduation until September 2021. He became an Associate Professor of Immunology in 1999 and a Professor in 2005. He was appointed as an Academic Director in 2012.

Dr. Süsal received many scientific awards, including the 2023 TÜBA International Academy Award from the Turkish Academy of Sciences,  the Hans Grosse-Wilde Award of the German Immunogenetics Society, and held several leadership positions in the fields of organ transplantation and transplantation immunology. He served on the executive boards of various national and international societies, including Eurotransplant, was the President of the German Society for Immunogenetics, and coordinated the Collaborative Transplant Study, in which more than 400 transplant centers from 42 countries have participated. He is the current President of the Turkish Society for Transplantation Immunology and Immunogenetics.

Dr. Süsal authored or co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed articles and published in high-ranked journals, such as Nature Med, N Engl J Med, BMJ, J Clin Invest, Blood, J Immunol, Am J Transplant, and Nat Rev Nephrol. His research interests cover all aspects of organ transplantation and transplantation immunology, including genetic modification of cell transplants, transplantation of highly immunized patients, induction of unresponsiveness to allografts, pre- and post-transplant risk estimation, matching of organ donor/recipient pairs at epitope level, and identification of biomarkers that reflect the balance between the effector and regulatory components of the alloimmune response.

Currently, Dr Süsal is lecturing as a Professor of Immunology at Heidelberg University School of Medicine. In September 2021, he was appointed as TIREX ERA Chair Holder at Koç University.