作者: Stephen A. Locarnini

Arie Zuckerman is chair of the Hepatitis B Foundation UK. He was the Director of?WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Viral Hepatitis from 1974-1989 and 1990-2006. He was also?Principal and Dean of the Royal Free and University College Medical School and Principal and Dean of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. Howard Thomas?is Vice President of British Liver Trust, 1993-present and Hepatitis B Foundation — Trustee, 2005-present. He was also President of British Association for the Study of the Liver 1996-1998. Anna Lok is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of Clinical Hepatology at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Her contributions include:?hepatitis B”s?role in infection, treatment of hepatitis-induced diseases, development?of?cost-effective methods for preventing recurrent hep B infection following liver transplantation, and long-term effects of interferon treatment in patients with hep C. Stephen Locarnini”s research group is composed of: molecular diagnostics, new drug targets in HBV and molecular pathogenesis. Stephen is also the Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Virus Reference and Research at the VIDRL.