Projects about the liver

These research projects focus on the liver, including liver cancer and liver cirrhosis.

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Dhanushan Gnanendran

Project: "Liver's Silent Crisis: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Environmental Hepatology."

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Laura Burke

Project: "Alcohol related LivER disease audiT : ALERT-UK."

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Dr Jemima Finkel

Project: "Bacterial Translocation in Cirrhosis and its Complications."

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Meryl Ong

Project: "The Systemic Pathology of Dyskeratosis Congenita."

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Sonal Patel

Project: "The establishment of a dedicated specialised pathway to optimise the management of patients diagnosed and treated for autoimmune hepatitis...

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Dylan Leon

Project: "Lower psoas muscle density, a proxy of sarcopenia, associates with 30 – day mortality in patients with acute variceal...

Ho Kiu Giselle Ngan

Conducted the first genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in the South Asian population to identify genetic factors associated with non-alcoholic fatty...

Radhika Shah

Looking at the role of matrix metalloproteinases in metabolic syndrome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Rebecca Turley

Improving patient safety and engagement with hepatitis B screening.

Veena Shivukumar

Looking at the safety and feasibility of using Pillcam UGI as an alternative to gastroscopy for varices surveillance.

Dr Charlotte Burford

Looking at modulating intestinal microbiome and stool microbiome in Biliary Atresia paediatric patients.

Dr Nadir Abbas

Developing a digital platform (liverdojo.com) for informational, liver health videos for different languages in the UK.

Laura Kent

Improving patients' quality of life with liver disease.

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Aaminah Mohammed iBSc

Sex-related differences in alcohol-related liver disease.

Dr Grace Hatton

Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in chronic liver disease.

Dr Nicole Cianci

Non-invasive tests for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to determine their success at predicting death rates.

Ms Jaclyn Tan

Bacterial peritonitis in those with cirrhosis and ascites.

Dr Rebecca Jeyaraj

Looking at what causes Non Fatty Liver Disease in children.

Ms Jorlin Liu

Liver cancer.

Kader Torbator

Looking at the link between Psoriasis and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Niraj Doshi

A study looking at Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Trivandrum, India.

William Cambridge

Survival rates after liver transplantation for a rare bile duct cancer.

Ms Elinor Roderick

Autoimmune hepatitis.

Ms Elaine Lawson

Hepatitis C within local prisons.