Editorial Board

Guangwen Cao

gcao@smmu.edu.cn

Chairman, Professor, and PhD Supervisor at Department of Epidemiology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: hepatitis B virus, hepatocellular carcinoma, evolution, prediction, prophylaxis, therapeutic option, predicative biomarker, prognostic biomarkers

Giuliano Ramadori

Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

Research Interests: gene expression, liver cells (hepatocytes, kupffer cells, endothelial cells, stellate cells), pathogenesis, inflammation, cancer development, animal models of liver cancer diagnostic procedures and therapy, COVID-19 diagnostic and treatment, mechanisms of acute-phaseresponse, gastrointestinal cancer diagnostic and endoscopic therapy, systemic cancer therapy, tumor microenviroment analysis, liver diseases diagnostic, therapy, iron metabolism, radiation biology

Masao Omata

Department of Gastroenterology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Research Interests: hepatology, gastroenterology, oncology

Shukui Qin

Clinical Oncology Department, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: gastrointestinal cancers, treatment, liver cancer, primary liver cancer

Jia Fan

Department of Liver Surgery, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, clinical diagnosis, treatment and basic research of liver cancer

Gaojun Teng

Professor of Radiology, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), President of Chinese College of Interventionalists, Nanjing, China.

Research Interests: portal hypertension, interventional oncology, nonvascular, musculoskeletal interventions, molecular and functional imagine

Antonio Bertoletti

Division Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore City, Singapore.

Research Interests: immunopathogenesis, hepatitis C virus infection, SARS-CoV1/2 infections, new immunological based therapies (T cell receptor-redirected T cells), treatment of hepatitis C virus, SARS-CoV-2, hepatocellular carcinoma

Huiguo Ding

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Beijing You An Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: clinical diagnosis, treatment and research of liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension and its complications, early liver cancer diagnosis and screening, ascites, gastrointestinal bleeding, malnutrition, hepatic encephalopathy, pancreatic biliary disease, endoscopic minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment

Guido Gerken

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Essen, Essen, Germany.

Research Interests: internal medicine, gastroenterology, hepatology, clinical virology, clinical immunology, endoscopy, liver transplantation, autoimmunity, infectiology, visceral medicine, acute and terminal liver failure, molecular pathomechanisms of liver failure, fibrosis progression of chronic liver diseases, evaluation of mini-laparoscopy for the diagnosis of chronic liver diseases, crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, autoimmune hepatitis, viral hepatitis and HIV coinfection, hepatocellular carcinoma, establishment of biomarkers in gastroenterology

Nan Li

Department of Hepatic Surgery VI, AnTing District of the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, HBV-DNA, metastasis, transformation, liver transplantation

Lianxin Liu

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Anhui Provincial Clinical Research Center for Hepatobiliary Diseases, Hefei, Anhui, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, surgery, immunotherapy, liver cancer

Amedeo Lonardo

Operating Unit of Metabolic Syndrome, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, Modena, Italy.

Research Interests: metabolic associated fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, endocrine disorders, sex differences in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, metabolic syndrome, liver, hypobetalipoproteinemia, dysmetabolism in hepatitis C virus infection, diabetes in cirrhosis

Chunfeng Qu

National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, HBsAg, hepatitis B virus, prevention

Feng Shen

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, treatment of hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases

Dar-In Tai

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Research Interests: hepatitis B virus, genetic polymorphism, hepatocellular carcinoma family, elastography, liver ultrasound

Claudio Tiribelli

Fondazione Italiana Fegato – Italian Liver Foundation NPO, AREA Science Park, Trieste, Italy.

Research Interests: bilirubin, neonatal jaundice, metabolic liver diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma, stem cells in hepatocellular carcinoma, crigler-najjar syndrome, translational medicine

Georgios Tsoulfas

Surgery, Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Research Interests: hepatobiliary surgery, primary and secondary hepatic malignancies, ischemia/reperfusion injury, solid organ transplantation, medical/surgical education, 3D printing

Kaichun Wu

Emergency Room of Digestive Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: gastrointestinal cancers, treatment, liver cancer, gut

Hongping Xia

School of Basic Medical Sciences & State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine & Key Laboratory of Antibody Technique of National Health Commission & Jiangsu Antibody Drug Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: viral and non-viral hepatocellular carcinoma, target therapy, molecular pathology, noncoding RNAs, immunotherapy

Limin Xia

Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases, Hubei Key Laboratory of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, immunosuppressive microenvironment, myeloid cell, tumor microenvironment, CD8+T cell

Yongbing Xiang

Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: cancer statistics, cancer epidemiology, survival analysis, meta-analysis, cancer prevention

Fu Yang

Department of Medical Genetics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, epigenetics, RNA post-transcriptional modification, tumor energy metabolism, tumor microenvironment, tumor immunity

Xinrong Yang

Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: diagnosis and surgical treatment of liver tumours, liver transplantation, clinical and translational research of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), liver cancer stem cell, circulating tumor cells

Amedeo Amedei

University of Florence, Florence, Italy.

Research Interests: Immunity, microbiome, cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, autoimmunity

Francesco Ardito

Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: minimally invasive liver surgery, liver resection for malignant and benign hepatobiliary disease, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, liver metastases

Eliza Wright Beal

Departments of Surgery and Oncology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.

Research Interests: surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma, treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, cirrhosis, minimally invasive hepatectomy, systemic cancer therapy, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Stefano Bellentani

Presidente, Lifestyle Medical Clinic SAGL, Via Della Pace 3, Locarno, Switzerland.

Research Interests: metabolic associated fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, endocrine disorders, sex differences, metabolic syndrome, liver, hypobetalipoproteinemia, dysmetabolism in hepatitis C virus

Andrea Belli

Department of Abdominal Oncology, HPB Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Institute - G. Pascale - IRCCS, Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: liver resection, minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma

Stephen Lam Chan

State Key Laboratory of Translational Oncology, Sir YK Pao Centre for Cancer, Hong Kong Cancer Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: Clinical and translational researches on hepato-pancreatobiliary cancers and neuroendocrine tumours

Lei Chen

The International Cooperation Laboratory on Signal Transduction, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: heterogeneity of tumor microenvironment in liver cancer, the potential mechanism of driver gene associated tumor microenvironment remodeling, early diagnosis and precaution of liver cancer

Shuqun Cheng

Shanghai Oriental Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital,Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver transplantation, surgical treatment, prognosis, recurrence

Kenneth Siu Ho Chok

Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, Hongkong, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver transplantation, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Evangelos Cholongitas

First Department of Internal Medicine, "Laiko" General Hospital of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Research Interests: cirrhosis, liver transplantation, NAFLD, hepatocellular carcinoma

Paolo De Simone

Liver transplantation program, University of Pisa Medical School Hospital, Pisa, Italy.

Research Interests: liver transplant, liver surgery, liver malignancy, hepatocellular carcinoma, donor surgery

Renumathy Dhanasekaran

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

Research Interests: liver cancer, HCC, tumor progression, cancer immunology, macrophages

Marcello Di Martino

Department of Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, A.O.R.N. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver metastasis, liver cirrhosis, liver imaging, liver resection

Jin Ding

Clinical Cancer Institute, Center for Translational Medicine, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.

Research Interests: liver cancer stem cell, targeted drug resistance, differentiation therapy

Matteo Donadon

Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University Maggiore Hospital della Carità, Novara, Italy.

Research Interests: surgical oncology of hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases, surgical techniques, mininvasive approaches, surgical outcomes measures, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, systemic treatments, translational research

Jean-François Dufour

Centre for Digestive Diseases, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Research Interests: MASLD, MASH, hepatocellular carcinoma

Jiangao Fan

Department of Gastroenterology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: fatty liver, non-alcoholic liver disease, metabolic syndrome, obesity, type 2 diabetes, hepatocellular carcinoma

Lynn G. Feun

Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, biomarkers, clinical trials, immunotherapy

Richard S. Finn

Division of Hematology/Oncology, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Research Interests: molecular therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma, systemic therapy, therapeutic strategies

Alessandro Granito

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests: autoimmune liver diseases, autoimmune hepatitis, autoimmune cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, cancer immunotherapy, cancer immunotherapy related adverse events

Guohong Han

Department of Oncology, Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi , China.

Research Interests: portal hypertension, hepatobiliary and pancreatic tumors, interventional oncology, immunotherapy

Ho Seong Han

Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

Research Interests: hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgery, hepatocellular carcinoma, pancreas cancer, biliary tract cancer

Michael A. Heneghan

Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, UK.

Research Interests: autoimmune hepatitis, liver transplant, acute liver failure, primary biliary cholangitis

Jinlin Hou

Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: clinical management of viral hepatitis, molecular virology, immunology of hepatitis B virus (HBV), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infection

Roberto Iezzi

Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Oncological Radiotherapy and Hematology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: interventional oncology, hepatobiliary locoregional treatments, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, colorectal metastases, ablation, chemoembolization, radioembolization, technical innovation

David K. Imagawa

Department of Surgery, Irvine Medical Center, University of California, Orange, CA, USA.

Research Interests: bile duct cancer, liver cancer, treatment of bile duct injuries, chemoembolization, hemostatic agents

Jeong Won Jang

Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatitis B, HBV carcinogenesis, biomarkers, prevention and management

Deke Jiang

State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Viral Hepatitis Research, Institutes of Liver Diseases Research of Guangdong Province, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology Unit, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

Research Interests: genetic epidemiology, epigenetics, pharmacogenomics, molecular mechanism, chronic hepatitis B, hepatocellular carcinoma

Thomas Kietzmann

Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Biocenter Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

Research Interests: hypoxia, reactive oxygen species (ROS) Cancer, liver metabolism and zonation, cell signaling and transcriptional regulation, hemostasis and fibrinolysis, obesity and diabetes, insulin signaling, protein structure and stability

Terence Kin Wah Lee

Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: cancer stem cells, gut microbiota, therapeutic resistance, cancer immunology, hepatocellular carcinoma

Tingbo Liang

Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Research Interests: hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, organ transplantation, tumor immunity, hepatocellular carcinoma

Xiaohong Liang

Shandong University, Jinan, China.

Research Interests: liver immmune regulation

Yinying Lu

Department of Hepatology, The Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, immunotherapy, liver tumor

Chunhong Ma

School of Basic Medical Science, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China.

Research Interests: immune regulation, liver diseases, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, immunology

Jose J. G. Marin

Laboratory of Experimental Hepatology and Drug Targeting (HEVEPHARM), Institute for Biomedical Investigation of Salamanca (IBSAL), Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; National Center for the Study of Liver and Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD), Carlos III National Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain.

Research Interests: liver cancer, chemoresistance characterization and sensitization, drug targeting, gene therapy strategies

Gabriele Missale

Unit of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, tumor immune microenvironment, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, immuneresponse, T cell, NK cell

Necati Örmeci

Department of Gastroenterology, Istanbul Health and Technology University, Istanbul, Türkiye.

Research Interests: hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, hepatitis D virus, hepatocellular carcinoma, hydatid cyst, portal hypertension

Valérie Paradis

Pathology Department, Hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP, Clichy, France.

Research Interests: liver tumors, tumor heterogeneity, molecular imaging, preneoplastic liver lesions

Tao Peng

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, biomarkers, hepatitis B virus, liver surgery

Lunxiu Qin

Hepatobiliary Surgery Center, Department of General Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: liver cancer, hepatobiliary surgery, tumor microenvironment, cancer metastasis, molecular targeted therapy, immunotherapy, cancer biology, surgical techniques, early cancer diagnosis, translational medicine

Wenxin Qin

State Key Laboratory of Systems Medicine for Cancer, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: molecular mechanism of hepatocarcinogenesis, novel strategies for diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

Matteo Ravaioli

General Surgery and Transplant Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests: liver and kidney transplantation, liver resection, hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, ex-vivo perfusion and regenerative medicine, liver oncology

Lorenza Rimassa

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, biliary tract cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, liver cancer, new drugs, targeted agents, immunotherapy, biomarkers

Andrea Ruzzenente

Division of General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, Dentistry, Gynecology and Pediatrics, GB Rossi University Hospital, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

Research Interests: minimally invasive liver surgery, robotic liver surgery, cholangiocarcinoma

Fuat H. Saner

Organ Transplant Center of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Research Interests: liver cancer, acute and chronic liver failure, liver transplantation

Robert Schierwagen

Universitätsklinikum Münster, Munster, Germany.

Research Interests: advanced chronic liver diseases and the transition to malignancy, gut-liver axis, hepatocellular carcinoma, circulating biomarkers

Vishalkumar G. Shelat

Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore City, Singapore.

Research Interests: hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery, liver resection, hepatocellular carcinoma, robotic hepatobiliary, pancreatic surgery

Ni Tang

Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases (Ministry of Education), Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, O-GlcNAcylation, cancer metabolism, hepatitis B Virus, tumor microenvironment

Pierluigi Toniutto

Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.

Research Interests: liver cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, portal hypertension, viral hepatitis, liver transplantation

Roberto Ivan Troisi

Division of HPB, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University, Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, robotic donor hepatectomy, liver transplantation, living donor liver transplant

Hong Tu

Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma carcinogenesis, hepatocellular carcinoma prediction, hepatocellular carcinoma prevention, tumor marker of hepatocellular carcinoma

Erica Villa

Division of Gastroenterology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatitis C virus, cirrhosis, direct-acting antiviral therapy, genotype, hepatitis B virus, platelets, portal hypertension, coagulation

Alessandro Vitale

Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG), University of Padova, Second General Surgical Unit, Padova Teaching Hospital, Padua, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cancer, hepatobiliary surgery, liver transplantation, MASLD

Cun Wang

State Key Laboratory of Systems Medicine for Cancer, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: exploring novel therapeutic strategies for liver cancer, functional genetic screening

Carmen Chak-Lui Wong

State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: tumor microenvironment, immunology, metabolism, immunotherapy, precision medicine, hepatocellular carcinoma

Rongqian Wu

Research Institute of Advanced Surgical Technology and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, fatty liver disease, liver transplantation, ischemia reperfusion injury

Bangde Xiang

The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Research Interests: surveillance, prognostic biomarkers, adjuvant therapy, recurrence after hepatectomy

Xiao Xu

Institute of Translational Medicine of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China.

Research Interests: transplant oncology, regenerative medicine

Dengfu Yao

Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: early diagnosis and pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatocarcinogenesis, biomarkers

Jianhua Yin

Department of Epidemiology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: hepatitis B virus, hepatocellular carcinoma, evolution, prediction, prophylaxis, therapeutic option, biomarker

Hongmei Zeng

National Cancer Centre, Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: liver cancer epidemiology, cancer burden analysis, population prevention strategies, screening & early detection, cancer registry big data