Stuart J. Forbes, MB CHB, FRCP(Ed), PhD

Biography

Stuart J Forbes is Professor of Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Director of the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR), and a Consultant Hepatologist at the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit.
After training in medicine at Edinburgh and completing a PhD at Imperial College, he worked as a hepatologist in London before returning to Edinburgh in 2006. His translation research program focuses on liver regeneration, investigating how it fails in liver disease and cancer. He has developing macrophage cell therapy for liver disease has founded Resolution Therapeutics, that is developing macrophage cell therapies to treat inflammatory organ disease.