Stuart Forbes
Director, Institute for Regeneration and Repair and Centre for Regenerative Medicine
- Centre for Regenerative Medicine
- Institute for Regeneration and Repair
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Institute for Regeneration and Repair
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh BioQuarter
5 Little France Drive - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UU
Background
- Director Centre for Regenerative Medicine
- Director UKRMP The Engineered Cell Environment Hub
- Professor of Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine
- Consultant Hepatologist Scottish Liver Transplant Unit
Current PhD students supervised
Niya Aleksieva
Jennifer Ann Cartwright
Hannah Esser
Research summary
Liver stem cells and regeneration
Our research concentrates on understanding how the liver regenerates in chronic disease and how this process becomes deranged in the development of liver cancer.
Aims and areas of interest
By understanding what controls liver regeneration in chronic injury our group aims to be able to promote healthy liver regeneration and reduce the formation of liver cirrhosis and cancer. There are 3 linked programs of research:
- Basic biology of the hepatic progenitor cell niche.
- Cell therapy for liver regeneration.
- The Liver Cancer niche in cholangiocarcinoma
- Prof John Iredale, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh
- Dr Luke Boulter, MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh
- Prof Owen Sansom, The Beatson Insitute, Glasgow
- Prof Tania Roskams, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Dr Ken Simpson, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh
- Dr Tim Kendall, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh