CID seminar: "Cell-based and cell-free therapy in regenerative medicine", 26 Sept

Tuesday 26th September,  12 - 1pm (Lunch from 11.45am), Seminar Room 1, Level 2, TRF Building

CID and CiiiD Seminars present: Prof. William Sievert, 

Program Director, Specialty Medicine, Cancer and Critical Care, Monash Health

Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Monash Health

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University

Director, Clinical Research, Monash Health

Talk title: Cell-based and cell-free therapy in regenerative medicine

Dr. William Sievert is Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Monash Health, and a

Professor in the Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. He was recently appointed as Director of Clinical Research at Monash Health and is a past President of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia. He trained in medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Texas Health Science Centre in Houston, Texas. Professor Sievert directs an active research program in liver disease comprising physician-scientists, clinical research nurses, biomedical scientists and research students. The Clinical Research Unit has been active for many years in international and national studies of antiviral agents for hepatitis B and C, therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma and more recently non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The clinical research programs are integrated with the provision of care for a large population of patients with viral hepatitis and chronic liver disease. Dr. Sievert also directs a basic research laboratory investigating mechanisms of inflammatory liver injury and hepatic fibrogenesis, with a translational focus on the development of antifibrotic agents for advanced liver disease including stem cell-based therapies.