Stuart Forbes


Stuart Forbes (SF) is Professor of Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit. Stuart’s research focuses on how the chronically damaged liver regenerates and how these mechanisms process becomes deranged in liver and bile duct cancer (Group Website: http://www.crm.ed.ac.uk/research/group/liver-stem-cells-regeneration). SF is Director of the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh (http://www.crm.ed.ac.uk/) which houses 230+ scientists and clinicians. SF is Director of the UK wide UKRMP Hub for engineering and exploiting the stem cell niche (http://www.ukrmp.org.uk/hubs/niche/) which aims to exploit the biology of stem cell niches for translational benefit. SF is a consultant Hepatologist at the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and has clinical interests in liver failure, cancer and transplantation and is running first in human trials of macrophage cell therapy for liver cirrhosis.