Centre for Liver and Digestive Disorders, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Biography
Dr. Thomas Bird is an Honorary Consultant Hepatologist based in the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Scotland. His clinical expertise is in liver failure and transplantation, including for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). He also run a basic science research group at the CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow, funded as a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh for studies on liver regeneration in 2011 and have published numerous translational studies on liver stem cells and regeneration.