Associate Editor

Professor Pietro Andreone graduated from the University of Bologna (Italy) School of Medicine and Surgery in 1980 and completed his training in Internal Medicine. In 1989 he was appointed at the Department of Internal Medicine as Assistant Professor and from 2005 he is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine. From 1991 he is the leader of an active research group in the field of Hepatology. His group has had continuous funding from the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research, Ministry of Health and the University-Region Emilia Romagna research programs. His areas of research are the diseases of the liver with special interest in chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver immunology, liver transplantation and liver stem cells. Professor Andreone has published 306 peer reviewed publications with a h-index of 51 (Scopus). He has, or has had, several collaborations with international research groups that led to the publication of numerous scientific papers. He follows, or has followed, more than 13,000 subjects with different liver diseases. He has been the principal investigator in over 130 clinical studies especially in the field of innovative therapies for hepatitis C, hepatitis B, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and autoimmune liver diseases.

chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver immunology, liver transplantation, liver stem cells