Editorial Board Member
Editor-in-Chief
Jose Carlos Fernandez-Checa, PhD
Professor of the Spanish National Research Council at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona (IIBB-CSIC); Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS); CIBEREHD; Barcelona, Spain
Associate Editors
Agustín Albillos, MD, PhD
Interests: cirrhosis, portal hypertension, gut-liver axis, acute-on-chronic liver failure
Professor of Medicine, University of Alcalá. Head, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal. Madrid, Spain
Matias A. Avila, PhD
Interests: cellular and molecular mechanisms of the hepatic response, genetic mechanisms of chronic liver disease, biomarkers
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and director of the Hepatology Program of the Center for Applied Medical Research at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Ina Bergheim, PhD
Interests: nutrition, intestinal barrier, alcohol-related liver disease, NAFLD, bacterial endotoxin, aging
Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Jae Youl Cho, PhD
Interests: inflammation, gastritis, protein methylation, natural product
Professor, Department of Integrative Biotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, 2067 Seobu-ro, Suwon 16419, South Korea
Wen-Xing Ding, PhD
Interests: autophagy, mitochondria, alcohol associated liver disease, alcohol-associated pancreatitis, drug-induced liver injury (DILI), lipid metabolism
Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
Marco Falasca, PhD
Interests: signal transduction, pancreatic cancer, drug development, lipid metabolism, exosomes
Program lead, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Michele Ghidini, MD, PhD
Interests: colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, liver cancer
Medical Oncologist, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano, Milan, Italy
Kenichi Ikejima, MD, PhD
Interests: pathophysiology of alcohol-related liver disease and NAFLD/NASH, liver immunology, sinusoidal cell biology and hepatic fibrogenesis
Professor of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Amedeo Lonardo, MD
Interests: NAFLD, NASH, MAFLD, metabolic syndrome, cirrhosis, liver cancer, sex diferences
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy
Maria Carlota Londoño, MD, PhD
Interests: liver diseases, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, hepatitis C, liver transplantation
Hepatologist, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Associate professor, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Derek A. Mann, PhD
Interests: liver fibrosis, liver cancer, replicative senescence, tissue ageing, inflammation, immunobiology
Professor of Hepatology, Biosciences Institute, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Jose J. G. Marin, PhD
Interests: bile acids, cholestasis, liver and gastrointestinal cancer, chemoresistance and chemosensitization, drug targeting, gene therapy
Professor, Head of Dept. Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Salamanca; Experimental Hepatology and Drug Targeting (HEVEPHARM); Carlos III National Institute of Health, Center for the Study of Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases (CIBERehd); Salamanca Institute for Biomedical Research (IBSAL); Salamanca, Spain
Fabio Marra, MD, PhD
Interests: cellular and molecular mechanisms of hepatic inflammation and fibrogenesis, pathophysiology of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, hepatobiliary neoplasia, non-invasive evaluation of liver fibrosis
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Internal Medicine and Liver Unit, University of Florence, Italy
Maria L. Martinez-Chantar, PhD
Interests: liver care, non-invasive assays for NASH diagnosis, metabolomics
Professor, School of Medicine, University of Deusto; CIC bioGUNE; CIBERehd – Spanish Carlos III Health Institute; Derio, Spain
Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, MD, PhD
Interests: liver fibrosis, fatty liver (MASLD), bile acids metabolism, bilirubin metabolism, obesity related cirrhosis complications
Professor of Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, Mexico
Han Moshage, PhD
Interests: chronic liver diseases, apoptosis, necrosis, lipotoxicity, fatty liver diseases, oxidative stress, signal transduction, fibrosis, inflammation, hepatocytes, Kupffer cells, stellate cells
Professor of Experimental Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Dept. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Natalia Nieto, Pharm.D, PhD
Interests: alcoholic liver disease, fibrosis, NASH
Professor, Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Piero Portincasa, MD, PhD
Interests: lipid metabolism; enterohepatic circulation; liver steatosis; metabolic disorders; microbiota; water transport; electrophysiology; functional ultrasonography; autoinflammatory disorders
Professor of Internal Medicine; Chief of the Division of Internal Medicine; Vice-Director of the Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area; University of Bari “Aldo Moro” and University Hospital Policlinico, Bari, Italy
Matteo Ravaioli, PhD
Interests: liver and kidney transplantation, HPB surgery, organ machine perfusion and transplantation, Immunosuppressive therapy in organ transplantation, liver regeneration and ex-vivo regenerative medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Claudio Tiribelli, MD, PhD
Interests: liver; jaundice; HCC; bilirubin; molecular hepatology
Fondazione Italiana Fegato ONLUS – Italian Liver Foundation NPO, Trieste, Italy
Oren Tirosh, PhD
Interests: oxidative stress and metabolic diseases, NAFLD/NASH, hepatocytes cell death, redox signaling, cholesterol and bile acids biology.
Professor of Nutritional Sciences. Head, Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition. The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Rehovot, Israel.
Ralf Weiskirchen, MD, PhD
Interests: fibrosis, cytokines, chemokines, liver disease, gastrointestinal disease, biomarkers, pathogenesis
Professor, Institut für Molekulare Pathobiochemie, Experimentelle Gentherapie und Klinische Chemie, RWTH Universitätsklinikum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
William Ka Kei Wu, PhD
Interests: gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, probiotics, H. pylori, NAFLD, genomics, autophagy
Associate Professor (Non-clinical), State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China.
Editorial Board Members
Gitana Maria Aceto, PhD
Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cirrhosis, hepatitis, gastroenterology, metabolic syndrome, liver diseases and immunology
Department of Sciences, Unit of Experimental Pathology, G. d’Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
María Arechederra, PhD
Interests: liver cancer, HCC/CCA, molecular mechanisms of liver carcinogenesis, genetics and epigenetics, DNA methylation, liquid biopsy biomarkers
Researcher, Hepatology Program, Center for Applied Medical Research (Cima), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Carmen Berasain, PhD
Interests: cellular and molecular mechanisms of hepatocarcinogenesis, gene expression regulation, liquid biopsy strategies
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and sub-director of the Hepatology Program of the CIMA at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Jean Francois D. Cadranel, PhD
Interests: cirrhosis, infection in cirrhotics, NASH, liver biopsy, epidemiology, viral hepatitis
Professor, Head of the Hepatogastroenterology, Nutrition, and Alcoholology Department, GHPSO, Boulevard Laennec, France
Ali Canbay, MD, PhD
Interests: liver diseases, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, biliary tract diseases, liver transplantation, gastrointestinal diseases, Hepatitis B, MASLD, cholagiocarcinoma, viral hepatitis
Professor of Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Jian-Guo Chen, MD
Interests: cancer and disease surveillance, epidemiology, etiology, prevention, screening and early diagnosis
Research Fellow and Professor, Qidong Liver Cancer Institute, Jiangsu, China
Robert Eferl, PhD
Interests: colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer metastasis, intestinal barrier function, cytokine signaling
Professor, Center for Cancer Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Giampiero Francica, MD
Interests: Hepatocellular carcinoma, radiology, hepatology, liver cancer, gastroenterology, ultrasound imaging, cirrhosis
Chief of the Diagnostic and Interventional Unit of Pineta Grande Hospital, Castel Volturno, Italy
Carmen Garcia-Ruiz, PhD
Interests: mitochondria, lipid metabolism, oxidative stress, cell death, gender differences in NASH driven HCC
Professor of the Spanish National Research Council at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona (IIBB-CSIC); Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS); Research Center Network of Hepatic and Digestive Diseases (CIBERehd-ISCIII); Barcelona, Spain
Luis E. Gomez-Quiroz, PhD
Interests: biology and pathobiology of liver and pancreas diseases, liver cancers, signal transduction and redox biology
Professor and principal investigator at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City.
Claus Hellerbrand, MD
Interests: molecular mechanisms of chronic liver disease including liver cancer and hepatic metastasis
Professor for Biochemistry and Molecular Pathobiology, Institute of Biochemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Francesco Izzo, MD, PhD
Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver diseases, laparoscopic surgery, cancer immunology, surgical oncology tumors, colorectal surgery, cancer diagnostics
Professor of Division of Abdominal Surgical Oncology, Hepatobiliary Unit, Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e la cura dei Tumori “Fondazione G. Pascale”-IRCCS-Via Mariano Semmola, Naples, Italy
Hartmut W. Jaeschke, MD, PhD
Interests: acetaminophen; drug hepatotoxicity; apoptosis; ferroptosis, pyroptosis
Professor of Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, United States
Abdo Romanos Jurjus, PhD
Interests: Colorectal cancer, probiotics, cell biology, cancer biology, immunohistochemistry
Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Anastasios Koulaouzidis, MD, DM, PhD
Interests: capsule endoscopy, colonoscopy, endoscopy, colorectal cancer, microscopic colitis
Professor, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark
Cosmas Rinaldi A. Lesmana, MD, PhD
Interests: liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, biliary cancer, gallstone, endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography, endoscopic ultrasound
Associate Professor in Medicine – Internist – Senior Consultant Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hepatobiliary Division, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, Medical Faculty Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Zhaoguo Liu, PhD
Interests: digestive diseases, colon cancer, liver fibrosis, active ingredient of TCM, molecular mechanisms
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Nantong University, China
Jochen Mattner, MD
Interests: immune-mediated, inflammatory and infectious diseases, extracellular vesicles, (immune-) metabolism, intestinal microbiota, host-microbe interactions, mucosal vaccination
Professor for Molecular Microbiology and Infection Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen (UKER), Erlangen, Germany
Vincenzo Giorgio Mirante, MD
Interests: colonoscopy; endoscopes; gastrointestinal diseases; EUS; esophageal diseases, gastric cancer
Chief of Gastroenterologia A, Ospedale Borgo Trento, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Verona, Verona, Italy
Anna Moles, PhD
Interests: liver fibrosis, extracellular matrix remodeling, proteolytic networks and biological signaling pathways during chronic liver disease
Research Scientist of the Spanish National Research Council at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona (IIBB-CSIC); Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS); CIBEREHD; Barcelona, Spain.
Maria J. Monte, PhD
Interests: bile acids, cholestasis, liver metabolism
Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Salamanca; Experimental Hepatology and Drug Targeting (HEVEPHARM); Carlos III National Institute of Health, Center for the Study of Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases (CIBERehd); Salamanca Institute for Biomedical Research (IBSAL); Salamanca, Spain.
Chiara Raggi, PhD
Interests: hepatobiliary tumor, cholangiocarcinoma, cancer stem cells, tumor associated macrophages, tumor metabolism
Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Xizhong Shen, PhD
Interests: NAFLD, HCC, gut microbiota, liver fibrosis
Professor, Fudan University. Head, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Raquel Soares, PhD
Interests: Metabolic deregulation in obesity, diabetes and cancer, Inflammation and angiogenesis imbalance
Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Researcher at i3S, Institute of Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Portugal
Pavel Strnad, PhD
Interests: metabolic liver disease, liver cirrhosis and complications, keratins and iron metabolism
Professor of Medicine, University Hospital Aachen. Head, Research Laboratory in Translational Gastroenterology. Aachen, Germany
Gianni Testino, MD
Interests: alcohol related liver disease; alcohol use disorder; hepatocellular carcinoma; liver transplantation; healthy lifestyle
Chief Unit of Addiction and Hepatology ASL3 c/o San Martino Polyclinic Hospital; Chief Department for Healthy Lifestyles and Community Programs, ASL3, Genova, Italy
Thierry Tordjmann, MD, PhD
Interests: regulation of liver regeneration and fibrogenesis, bile acid signaling, bile acid homeostasis, purinergic signaling, cholestasis, in vivo murine models in liver pathophysiology
Research director at INSERM U1193, University of Paris Saclay, Orsay, France. Team leader (Biliary Homeostasis and liver repair)
Wengong Wang, MD, PhD
Interests: Aging, NAFLD, vascular inflammation and atherosclerosis, lipid metabolism
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
Zeneng Wang, PhD
Interests: gut microbiome, gut microbiota derived metabolites, nutrient, inflammation, metabolomics
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Staff Scientist, Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA