Prof. Claudio Tiribelli

Claudio Tiribelli graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Padua and specialized in Gastroenterology at the University of Trieste. From 1989 to 2008 he was Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and from 2009 to 2016 he was Full Professor of Gastroenterology. As an expert hepatologist, he is known above all for his studies on bilirubin and in particular on kernicterus, a neurological damage induced by bilirubin. He is worldwide expert in wide spectrum of liver-related diseases, from fatty liver, liver fibrosis, to liver cancer. He is the creator and still Scientific Director of the Italian Liver Foundation – NPO, based at AREA Science Park in Basovizza, a reality of international excellence in translational hepatological research