Research

Chaired by Dr Colin Rees

Matthew Banks
Pradeep Bhandari
Elizabeth Bird-Lieberman
Matthew Brookes
Nick Church
Sunil Dolwani
James East
Neil Hawkes
Bu Hayee
Jonno Hoare
Marietta Iacucci
Matt Rutter
Venkataraman Subramanian
Fiona Veira
Andy Veitch
Ana Wilson
Eleanor Wood

Chaired by Dr Ian Rowe

Ashwin Dhanda
Will Alazawi
Bill Griffiths
Patrick Kennedy
Palak Trivedi
Shahid Khan
Will Bernal
Ben Hudson
Aileen Marshall
Dhiraj Tripathi
Rajiv Jalan

BASL Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

The British Association for Study of the Liver (BASL) has set up a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), which are linked to the NIHR’s CRG topic areas and to the BSG/BASL Liver Research Development Group. The SIGs aim to promote and encourage collaborative research and clinical trials in liver disease.

Find out more in the “About” section of the BASL website. If you wish to join a SIG, please email Samantha@basl.org.uk.

Chaired by Dr Helen Steed

Christopher Black
Matthew Brookes
Maura Corsetti
Giles Major
Alex di Mambro
Adam Farmer
Lesley Houghton – Co-opted
Jimmy Limdi
Miranda Lomer – Co-opted
Mairi McLean – Co-opted
Helen Steed
Julian Walters
Kevin Whelan – Co-opted

Chaired by Dr Charlie Lees

Ailsa Hart
Tariq Iqbal
Nick Kennedy
James Lindsay
Mike McFarlane (Trainee Rep)
Miles Parkes
Tim Raine
Sreedhar Subramanian
Anjan Dhar
Christine Norton – Co-opted
Shaji Sebastian – Co-opted

Chaired by Dr Vikram Mitra

Andy Hopper
John Leeds
Matthew Huggett
Bharat Paranandi
Andrew Hart
Sharan Shetty
Simon Everett
Nadeem Tehami

Read more about the Pancreas Clinical Research Group here.

The Gut Microbiota for Health Expert Panel represents a group of multi-disciplinary members (including primary and secondary care clinicians, microbiologists, dietitians and research scientists) with expertise and interest in the gut microbiota and its role in health and disease. The Group is under the auspices of the British Society of Gastroenterology Research Committee.

The group was formed in 2013 and now includes over 50 members who meet twice a year, arrange meetings and workshops on key topics related to the microbiota and publish articles in high impact journals, as well as writing articles to enhance understanding with the public.

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The AI Task Force is a group of BSG members who have a specialist interest in the rapidly developing area of artificial intelligence as it applies to gastrointestinal medicine.  The Group is under the auspices of the Research Committee.

The group was formed in 2021 and includes over 30 members who meet four times a year. The focus is to identify the key needs of gastroenterologists and their patients in service delivery, research, and teaching. The group has formed special interest groups (SIGs) in each of these areas, as well as SIGs for natural language processing (NLP) and disease-specific areas including inflammatory bowel disease. The quarterly plenary meetings ensure that all the groups continue to work together for the common good.

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The NIHR Clinical Research Network is part of the National Institute for Health Research. We provide researchers with the practical support they need to make clinical studies happen in the NHS, so that more research takes place across England, and more patients can take part. This practical support includes: reducing the “red-tape” around setting up a study; enhancing NHS resources by funding the people and facilities needed to carry out research “on the ground”; helping researchers to identify suitable NHS sites, and recruit patients to take part in research studies; advising researchers on how to make their study “work” in the NHS environment. (www.nihr.ac.uk)

The network supports clinical research infrastructure throughout England, which is working towards increased access for patients to new and better treatments in the NHS. We support all therapeutic areas including Hepatology and Gastroenterology.   If you want to find out more about our Hepatology and Gastroenterology Specialties then further information can be found in the profiles below.  If you want to link with someone locally, then check out our local leads.

Gastroenterology Specialty profile

Hepatology Specialty profile

NIHR CRN INCLUDE Guidance

The INCLUDE guidance has been designed to be used in conjunction with research, particularly in the early stages of setting-up. The guidance aims to get research teams thinking about ways of making health research more inclusive and to ensure under-served cohorts are more fairly represented in health research. Click on the link below to find out more.

NIHR CRN INCLUDE Guidance