Research Projects

The Foundation funds research within its own purpose-built research centre, the Institute of Hepatology in central London.

Research in the Institute is organised around major research projects within the common overall theme of Liver Cell Injury and Repair. We currently have projects underway in the following areas:

Gut-Liver Axis and Microbiome in Advanced Chronic Liver Disease

Gut-Liver Axis
The pathobiology of cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), with an emphasis on alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD)

The pathobiology of cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic
Chronic Viral Hepatitis

Chronic Viral Hepatitis
The epigenetic mechanisms of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

The epigenetic mechanisms of NAFLD
Liver Engineering and Regeneration

Liver Engineering and Regeneration
Metabonomics and Proteomics

Metabonomic and Proteomic Studies
Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD) & Susceptibility to Infection

Alcoholic Liver Disease & Infection
Alcohol and Drug-induced Hepatoxicity

Alcohol and the Liver
Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Liver Transplantation and Surgical Liver Resection

Liver Transplantation

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