Dr. Luca Fabris

Biography

Luca Fabris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) at Yale School of Medicine. He earned his MD from the University of Padua, Italy in 1987, and completed his PhD at the University of Milan in 1997. Dr. Fabris has extensive research experience, having developed his research program at the University of Birmingham, UK from 1995 to 1996. In 2005, he was nominated Assistant Professor at the University of Padua's School of Medicine, and subsequently promoted to Associate Professor of Gastroenterology in 2016. Dr. Fabris has been serving as an Adjunct Faculty at Yale since 2012, focusing on genetic biliary diseases and cancer, emphasizing gender-specific differences in liver diseases. He received the title of Fellow from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in 2024. In addition to his teaching and research roles, he is also an Associate Editor for Biochimica et Biophysica Acta and serves on various editorial boards, demonstrating his active engagement in the scholarly community. His research primarily encompasses the pathophysiology of chronic liver diseases, particularly those of inflammatory and neoplastic origin, with a focus on translational studies that bridge the gap between laboratory and clinical research.

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