Junior Editorial Board

Paolo Gallo

Operative Research Unit of Clinical Medicine and Hepatology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo, Roma, Italy.

Research Interests: cirrhosis complications, ascites, sarcopenia, portal hypertension, ultrasound, liver metabolism, hepatocellular carcinoma

Masaaki Hidaka

Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Shimane, Japan.

Research Interests: liver surgery, liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma and minimal invasive surgery

Daniel Wai Hung Ho

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

Research Interests: liver cancer, cancer genomics, bioinformatics

Ming Liu

School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, therapeutic drug, drug resistance

Jianhong Zhong

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Guangxi, China.

Research Interests: hepatobiliary tract cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma

Flavia Feier

Liver Transplantation Department, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

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

Federico Aucejo

Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Research Interests: liver surgery techniques, research outcomes in liver malignancies, hepatocellular carcinoma translational research

Giuseppa Augello

Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation, National Research Council (CNR), Palermo, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, signal transduction, translational research, biomarkers, genetic polymorphism

Giammauro Berardi

General Surgery and Transplantation Unit, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital of Rome, Rome, Italy.

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

Zachary Brown

Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.

Research Interests: immunotherapy, tumor microenvironment, perfusion therapies, perioperative therapies

Andrea Benedetti Cacciaguerra

HPB and Abdominal Transplant Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy.

Research Interests: minimally invasive liver surgery, surgical oncology, hepato-biliary surgery, pancreas surgery, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver transplantation

Andrea Casadei-Gardini

Oncology department, Sal Raffaele hospital, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, translational research, gastrointestinal tumors

Kun-Ming Chan

Department of General Surgery and Organs Transplantation center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Main branch, Taiwan.

Research Interests: Minimal invasive liver surgery, liver and pancreas transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma, stem cells

Weibo Chen

Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: liver cancer metastasis and recurrence, pancreatic cancer metastasis, anticancer therapy resistance

Jonggi Choi

Department of Gastroenterology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

Research Interests: viral hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cirrhosis, autoimmune liver disease

Antonio Cigliano

Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, tumor microenvironment, signal transduction, translational research, cancer metabolism

Davide Cintorino

Department of Pediatrics for the Study of Abdominal Diseases and Abdominal Transplantation, ISMETT (Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione), IRCCS -UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), Palermo, Italy.

Research Interests: minimally invasive liver surgery, liver transplantation, liver resection, hepatocellular carcinoma

Elton Dajti

Gastroenterology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests: liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, portal hypertension, non-invasive tests, rare liver diseases

Bobby V. M. Dasari

Hepatobiliary and Transplant Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.

Research Interests: liver function, liver failure, primary liver cancer, liver metastases

Riccardo De Carlis

Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: liver transplantation, machine perfusion, liver resection, minimally invasive liver surgery, hepatocellular carcinoma

Zeyang Ding

Hepatic Surgery Center and Hubei Key Laboratory of Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Diseases, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Research Interests: precision treatment of hepatobiliary cancer

Daniele Dondossola

Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, General and Liver Transplant Surgery Unit, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: liver transplantation, liver diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma, preclinical science, translational science, machine perfusion, liver metabolism

Yutaka Endo

Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, colorectal liver metastases, liver transplant, liver resection, transplant oncology, machine learning

Alberto Ferrarese

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Verona University Hospital, Verona, Italy.

Research Interests: complications of cirrhosis, acute-on-chronic liver failure, portal hypertension, liver transplantation

Daniela Gabbia

Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Research Interests: chronic liver diseases, MASLD, MASH, fibrosis, HCC, preclinical studies, pharmacokinetics, toxicological studies

Carla Hajj

Radiation Oncology Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.

Research Interests: gastrointestinal malignancies, hepatobiliary malignancies, hematologic malignancies, proton radiation therapy

Xiangyong Hao

Department of General Surgery, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.

Research Interests: liver cancer, anti-tumor drug, biomarker, immunotherapy, clinical transformation, hepatobiliary surgery

Daniel Q. Huang

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National University Health System, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatitis B, liver transplant

Divya Kumar

Department of Biochemistry, JSS Medical College, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, Karnataka, India.

Research Interests: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma, obesity, metabolic syndrome, translational research

Sung Won Lee

Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver fibrosis, viral hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri

Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery, liver transplantation

Chunyang Li

Shandong University, Jinan, China.

Research Interests: tumor Immunity, HBV, CD8+ T Cells, Immune Checkpoints, CAR T Cell Therapy

Rong Liang

Department of Digestive Oncology, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, spatial transcriptomics, single cell transcriptomics, RNA methylation modification, histone modification

Yan Lin

Department of Digestive Oncology, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, spatial transcriptomics, single cell transcriptomics, RNA methylation modification, histone modification

Wenbin Liu

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

Research Interests: hepatitis B virus, cancer, mutation, epidemiology, genetic polymorphism

Ying Liu

Department of Infectious Dieases, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Research Interests: oncolytic virotherapy, hepatocellular carcinoma, viral hepatitis (severe hepatitis), liver cirrhosis

Miriam Longo

General Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: transarterial chemoembolization, b-transarterial chemoembolization, liver ablation (radiofrequency thermal ablation, microwave) for hepatocellular carcinoma, metastatic colorectal cancer, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, cone beam computed tomography

Pierleone Lucatelli

Department of Radiological Oncological and Anatomo-Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: transarterial chemoembolization, b-transarterial chemoembolization, liver ablation (radiofrequency thermal ablation, microwave) for hepatocellular carcinoma, metastatic colorectal cancer, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, cone beam computed tomography

Rashid N.S. Lui

Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: gastrointestinal oncology, hepatocellular carcinoma, viral hepatitis

Ka Wing Ma

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

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, pancreatic cancer, surgical endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, liver transplantation

Alessandro Mantovani

Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

Research Interests: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, ceramides, gender disparity in science

Giovanni Marasco

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

Research Interests: non-invasive tests, liver cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, ultrasound elastography, gut microbiota

Andrea Martini

Azienda Ospedaliera-Università Padova

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cirrhosis, biomarkers, portal hypertension, prognosis, systemic therapies, carcinogenesis, liver fibrosis, screening strategies of liver disease

Fabio Melandro

Department of General and Specialist Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma, donation after circulatory death, machine perfusion, cholangiocarcinoma

Ziyu Meng

NHC Key Laboratory of Hormones and Development, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Metabolic Diseases, Chu Hsien-I Memorial Hospital & Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.

Research Interests: metabolic regulation mechanism of liver diseases, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), viral hepatitis B and C, hepatocellular carcinoma

Marica Meroni

General Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma, genetics, preclinical models of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, crispR/cas9

Mauro Montalbano

Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.

Research Interests: pathological pathways, hepatocellular carcinoma, neurodegenerative diseases, molecular and cellular mechanism, glioblastoma pathogenesis

Cristina Mosconi

Department of Radiology, IRCCS, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, University Hospital of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocarcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, liver metastastis, radioembolization, chemoembolization, embolization, interventional radiology, imaging

Heechul Nam

Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Nariman Nezami

Georgetown University School of Medicine, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA.

Research Interests: interventional oncology, interventional immunology, cell delivery, percutaneous ablation, trans arterial embolization, radioembolization, and chemoembolization, primary and metastatic liver cancer.

Cheng Han Ng

Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

Research Interests: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, metabolic associated fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, liver transplant

Damiano Patrono

General Surgery 2U-Liver Transplant Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città Della Salute e Della Scienza Di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

Research Interests: liver transplantation, liver preservation, machine perfusion, normothermic regional perfusion, donation after circulatory death, liver allograft steatosis, transplant oncology, minimally invasive liver surgery

Filippo Pelizzaro

Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Padova University Hospital, Padova, Italy.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cirrhosis, biomarkers, prognosis, systemic therapies

Chiara Raggi

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.

Research Interests: cholangiocarcinoma, cancer stem cells, macrophages, oxidative phosphorilation

Francesca Ratti

Hepatobiliary Surgery Division, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: laparoscopic surgery, techniques for liver hypertrophy, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver failure

Fabrizio Romano

Surgery University of Milan Bicocca, Chief Hepatobiliary Unit IRCCS San Gerardo, Monza, Italy.

Research Interests: minimally invasive liver surgery, liver resection, hepatocellular Carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, recurrence

Gianluca Rompianesi

Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery and Kidney Transplantation, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy.

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

Keisaku Sato

Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

Research Interests: ductular reaction, liver fibrosis, cholangiocarcinoma, bioinformatics

Gabriel T Schnickel

Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.

Research Interests: liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma, immunotherapy

Matteo Serenari

General Surgery and Transplant Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests: minimally invasive liver surgery, liver transplant, liver resection, recurrence, hepatocellular carcinoma

Sarah Shalaby

Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy.

Research Interests: portal hypertension, portal vein thrombosis, de novo neoplasms after liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma

Hua Su

Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Zhongshan-Xuhui Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: tumor metabolism, tumor microenvironment, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, collagen, macropinocytosis, autophagy

Hua Tian

State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, carcinogenesis, molecular biology, signal transductions, targeting therapy

Man Tong

School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: liver cancer, drug resistance, cancer metabolism, tumor microenvironment

Francesco Tovoli

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

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocellular carcinoma, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune hepatitis, celiac disease

Diamantis I. Tsilimigras

Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, colorectal liver metastases, surgery, surgical oncology, hepato-pancreatico-biliary, machine learning

Xiangkun Wang

Departments of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, prognostic survival, biomarker, mechanical exploration, clinical transformation

Zhuanchang Wu

Shandong University, Jinan, China.

Research Interests: HBV infection and replication, HBV and liver cancer, HBV and immunity

Zhijia Xia

Institute of lmmunological lnnovation and Translation, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China; Department of General, Visceral, and Transplant Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, immune cells, exhausted T (Tex) cells, sphingolipid metabolism

Jiazhou Ye

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, spatial transcriptomics, single cell transcriptomics, RNA methylation modification, histone modification

Terry Cheuk-Fung Yip

Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: chronic hepatitis B, liver diseases, cirrhosis, biostatistics, epidemiology

Alberto Zanetto

Department of Surgery, Oncology, and Gastroenterology, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy.

Research Interests: cirrhosis, liver transplantation, coagulation, platelets, hepatocellular carcinoma, portal hypertension

Xiangyu Zhai

Shandong Province Engineering Research Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Malignant Tumors & Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Second Hospital of Shangdong University, Jinan, Shandong, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, Immune cells, RNA methylation modification

Xiuping Zhang

Faculty of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, the First Center of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital, Institute of Hepatobiliary Surgery of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: liver Cancer, macro or microvascular invasion, robotic HPB surgery, spatial multi-omics, nanomedicine

Haijian Zhang

Research Center of Clinical Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, and Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, epigenetics, tumor immunotherapy efficacy

Wenjie Zheng

Research Center of Clinical Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong, China.

Research Interests: liver cancer, gene therapy, therapy resistance, organoid model, ubiquitination

Binyan Zhong

The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.

Research Interests: interventional therapies for liver cancer, transarterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma, systemic therapies for liver cancer

Ioannis A. Ziogas

Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.

Research Interests: Pediatric liver transplantation, hepatobiliary surgery, minimally invasive liver surgery, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatoblastoma, cholangiocarcinoma, meta-analysis