Speaker

Manuel Romero-Gomez, MD

Virgen del Rocio University Hospital
Manuel Romero-Gomez, MD

Biography

Prof. Dr. Manuel Romero-Gómez. Director of UCM Digestive Diseases at Virgen del Rocío University Hospital. Full Professor of Medicine at Medical School, University of Seville. Head of SeLiver Group at Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS). PI at Ciberehd group 47/2006 ISCIII and CTS-532 research group in Andalucia. Director of Hepatic, Digestive and Inflammatory Diseases Translational Research Program at IBIS. External expert in Scientific Committee at IRyCIS, FPS, ISCIII, ANR, IHU-3, European Commission and NIH/NIDDK. Subproject leader in FLIP (VII-FP), National Leader in LITMUS (IMI-2) and WP leader in GRIP-on-NASH (IHI-3) European projects and, general coordinator of UNMASK (EPPerMed2024-496) and public-private grants NASH-PI, METABOMASH and CARPA. President of AEEH 2023-2025. Coordinator of Personalised Medicine working group in Covid-19 (2020-2022) in Andalucia, Spain. Fama Prize University of Seville 2024. He has demonstrated his innovative and entrepreneurial skills by developing more than 10 patents, more than 555 peer-reviewed scientific papers in top journals of the field with an H-Index 93 (Scopus, 2025). He is enjoying doing translational and collaborative liver research. He is a Betis supporter and love spending time with his family and biking and running.