CARBONE MARCO

Professor Carbone (MD, PhD) is an Associate Professor of Hepatology at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Honorary Consultant Hepatologist at the Niguarda Liver Transplant Centre, Milan. He qualified in Medicine in Rome, Italy and trained in hepatology in Italy and in the UK.
His research interest mainly relates to study disease mechanisms in autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases. He runs a research programme in autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases that encompasses joint modelling of molecular, histological and radiological data, and their conversion into meaningful outputs that can inform mechanistic understanding, health care decisions, and the design of innovative clinical trials. He is a steering committee member of the Global PBC study group, Vice-Chair of the PBC Foundation Medical Advisory Board and Council member of the Global Liver Institute. He founded and co-chairs the Italian Registry of PBC and PSC. He serves on the panel of the national guidelines for PBC and PSC. He is the recipient of the Rising Star in Gastroenterology award by the United European Gastroenterology (UEG) and the Europena Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Sheila Sherlock Fellowship. He is Associate Editor of Digestive and Liver Disease, serves on the editorial board of Hepatology, and co-authored more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals (h-index 31).