Prof. Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo

Alberto received his MD from the University of Barcelona in 1993 and trained in Gastroenterology & Hepatology at Hospital Clinic Barcelona. He conducted post-doctoral research in Transplant Immunology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA), and was a faculty member at the Liver Transplant Unit at the Hospital Clinic Barcelona/IDIBAPS (University of Barcelona), where he directed the Liver Transplant Immunology Lab from 2004 to 2012. He joined King’s College London as Head of the Liver Sciences Department in 2012. His research is focused on understanding the mechanisms responsible for immunological tolerance in transplantation and developing novel immunotherapies in liver diseases.