Jordi Gracia-Sancho, PhD, FAASLD

Jordi Gracia-Sancho MSc PhD FAASLD is the Chief of the Liver Research Unit at the Southern Catalonia Biomedical Research Institute (IRBCatSud) – Hospital Joan 23 de Tarragona, Associate Researcher at the Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine – University of Bern, & Director of the Spanish Research Consortium on Liver & Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD), National Institute of Health, Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.Jordi's research focuses on liver vascular pathobiology with special interest in the role of sinusoidal cells, and their interactions, in acute and chronic liver diseases, and in aging. He (co-)authored more than 175 peer-reviewed original papers and reviews, and currently serves as Editor in Chief of npj Gut and Liver, a Nature portfolio journal. In addition, he is invited professor in different universities within Spain and Europe and co-leads diverse educational initiatives including the LiverSeminars Program (www.liverseminars.eu), the 2018 EASL-Basic School of Hepatology, the 2020 APASL-Symposium on Regression of Portal Hypertension, the 2020 AASLD-Symposium on Senescence and Liver Diseases, the 2021 EASL-Symposium on Sinusoidal Cells in Liver Diseases, the 2023 & 2024 AMH-Irwin Arias Symposium and the 2025 AASLD Basic Science Symposium.Prof Gracia has been invited speaker in different national and international conferences, including the annual meetings of the European, American and Asia-Pacific associations of Hepatology. He has been member of the Governing Board and the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Association for the Study of the Liver (AEEH) the Basic Research Committee and the Steering Committee of the Portal Hypertension Special Interest Group of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). He is now member of the Baveno Cooperation-EASL Consortium Steering Committee. In 2016 he received the Emerging Leader Award from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). He served as Scientific Secretary and President of the International Society for Hepatic Sinusoidal Research (ISHSR, www.ishsr.net).