About Us
Scientific Advisors
Our Scientific Advisors include renowned global academic and clinical leaders in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and pancreas, including cholangiopathies and cancers.
Massimo Pinzani co-founded Engitix in 2016 and serves on the Board of Directors. He is Professor of Medicine and Director of the UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health (ILDH), and the Sheila Sherlock Chair of Hepatology at UCL, London. He is a clinical and translational hepatologist, renowned globally as an academic leader in liver fibrosis and HCC.
Mario Strazzabosco is Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) at the Yale Medical School and the Director and Clinical Program Leader of the Smilow Liver Cancer Program and the Deputy Director of the Yale Liver Center, New Haven, USA. He is internationally recognised as an expert in advanced hepatology and liver cancer.
Doug Thorburn is Professor of Medicine at the UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health London, UK. He is Clinical Director for the Liver Transplantation, HPB, Hepatology, Endoscopy and Gastroenterology services at the Royal Free Hospital with a research focus in autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases.
Giuseppe Fusai is a Professor of Surgery at UCL and a consultant hepatic pancreatic biliary surgeon and President of the Italian Medical Society of Great Britain. His primary clinical and academic interest is in oncological surgery and treatment modalities for patients with advanced disease.
Tu Vinh Luong is Consultant Liver, HPB and GI Histopathologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, London. She is a member of the UCL-RFH Biobank Ethical Review Committee (B-ERC-RFH). Special research interests include liver fibrosis, steatosis and HCC.
Melissa Palmer is an internationally renowned hepatologist and experienced biopharmaceutical executive, currently she is Chief Medical Officer at Gannex Pharma. Previously Dr Palmer was Head of Liver Disease Development at Takeda. She has also held senior leadership positions at Shire Pharmaceuticals and Kadmon Corporation. Before joining the industry, she worked for ~25 years as a hepatologist.
Emmanuel Tsochatzis is Professor and Consultant Hepatologist at the UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital in London. He leads the specialist multidisciplinary service in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and his research interests include NAFLD, cirrhosis and portal hypertension and non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis.
Antonio Di Sabatino is Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Pavia and Director of the Internal Medicine Division of the San Matteo Hospital Foundation, Pavia, Italy. His primary research interests lie in the field of translational medicine and include gut fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease and immune-mediated/neoplastic gastrointestinal disorders.
Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau is the Executive Medical Director of the Sarah Cannon Research Institute UK (SCRI UK) and Clinical Lead for the Hospital Corporation of America International Cancer Service Line. Since founding the SCRI UK in 2010, he has built a portfolio of over 180 early-stage cancer clinical trials. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.