Professor Margaret Bassendine
Professor of Hepatology

Introduction

I am a clinician scientist who has held a chair of Hepatology since 1994 and practiced as a consultant hepatologist [clinical lead in viral hepatitis] since 1986. I was instrumental in setting up the Newcastle liver transplant unit which opened in 1993 and was it’s medical director for the first 3 years; the unit has now performed >600 transplants. Over the last decade the focus of my research group has been viral hepatitis, in particular hepatitis C virus infection, supported by grant funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council

Qualifications

1968 B.Sc. Physiology Hons (IIi)
1971 MB, BS.
1974 MRCP(UK)
1989 FRCP & FRCP(E)
2003 D.Sc.(Med). University College, London University

Memberships

Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
British Society of Gastroenterology
British Association for the Study of the Liver
British Transplantation Society
European Association for the Study of the Liver
International Association for the Study of the Liver
American Association for the Study of the Liver

Esteem Indicators

1. Sheila Sherlock Lecturer, British Society of Gastroenterology (2009)
2. Appointed to Department of Health, Advisory Group on Hepatitis (2005, reappointed 2008)
3. Medicines Commissioner (1998-2001)

Funding

1. MRC: 3 year Experimental Medicine grant for £835,000 to study hepatitis C/ host lipid interaction (awarded 2006, commenced May 2007)
2. The Wellcome Trust: 3 year Project grant for £271,000 to study structure of hepatitis C virus (co-investigator with Dr G Toms, Dr D Neely and Dr S Nielsen) (July 2005- Sept 2008)

Postgraduate Teaching

Organiser of Falk Forum “The Changing Face of Hepatology” (Newcastle 2007)