Our team

Professor Fallowfield is a clinician scientist and Principal Investigator in the Centre for Inflammation Research (at the University of Edinburgh’s new Institute for Regeneration & Repair) and an Honorary Consultant Hepatologist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. During medical training in Southampton, he undertook a PhD on the reversibility of liver fibrosis as an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow. He relocated to Edinburgh in 2008 as an Academy of Medical Sciences/Health Foundation Clinician Scientist Fellow. In 2014 he was awarded an NHS Research Scotland Senior Clinical Fellowship and was promoted to Personal Chair in 2018. Professor Fallowfield’s research interests span basic science to clinical trials and focus particularly on the development of new diagnostic tests and treatments for chronic liver disease and its complications. He is the clinical lead for SteatoSITE. 

Professor Kendall is Principal Investigator in the Centre for Inflammation Research at the University of Edinburgh and an NHS Lothian Consultant Liver Pathologist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. His research interests are steatotic liver disease, liver fibrogenesis, and primary liver cancer but he also provides histopathological support for other preclinical, translational, and clinical studies. He is the pathology and ethics lead for SteatoSITE. 

He is pathology representative on committees of European and national liver organisations including CCA-UK and the European Network for the Study of Cholangiocarcinoma. Prof Kendall graduated from Southampton University and trained in Southampton and Edinburgh.