Massimo Pinzani#
| Membership Number: | 6293 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ucl.uk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1398-1541 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012, July - present Professor of Medicine University College London (UCL) and Sheila Sherlock Chair of Hepatology, Director UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom
- 2000 - 2012 Professor of Internal Medicine (2000 - 2010) and Gastroenterology (2010 - 2012), Department of Medicine, University of Florence School of Medicine, Florence, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Role of the hepatic stroma in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma
- Cell and molecular mechanism of hepatic and intestinal fibrogenesis
- Development of biomarkers and technologies for the non-invasive evaluation of disease progression in chronic liver diseases
- Regenerative Hepatology and tissue engineering
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Gold Medal of the Italian Society on Internal Medicine (SIMI)
- Since 2011 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) (by nomination)
- Since 2014 Fellow of the American Association for the Study of the Liver (FAASLD) (by nomination)
- Since 2017 Life Honorary Member, Italian Society of Nephrology (Societa’ Italiana di Nefrologia)
- Since 2022 Fellow of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland (by nomination)
- October 2010 Charles H. Brown, MD, Memorial Lecture, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
- April 2012 Jean Pierre Benhamou Lecture, International Liver Congress EASL, Barcelona, Spain
- March 2014 Gerald Klatskin, MD, Annual Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- June 2014 Sheila Sherlock Lecture, British Society of Gastroenterology 2014, Birmingham, UK
- October 2017 Hans Popper Lecture and Award, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- 2023 AJS McFadzean Distinguished Lecture and Professorship, University of Hong Kong
