Mohammed Eslam

Prof

MBBS/MSc/PhD

Mohammed.eslam@sydney.edu.au

The Storr Liver Centre

Functional Genomics Group

Mohammed Eslam

Biography

Professor Mohammed Eslam is a professor and Deputy Director of Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney. He heads the fatty liver and genomics group at Storr liver centre. He is director of operation of the Metabolic (Dysfunction) Associated Fatty Liver Disease Consortium (MAIDEN).

He has more than 170 publications, 5 book chapters and 2 patents. His work has been cited >17,000 times and papers he led on the fatty liver are cited >1000% more than expected for the field (FWCI 10.31). He recently led the international consensus for redefining of fatty liver disease, one of the most conceptual advances in the field of hepatology in the last decade.

He heads the International Liver Disease Genetics Consortium (13 countries and >35 institutions) which continues to expand. He is on the Editorial Board of Hepatology, Liver International, Clinical and Experimental Medicine, HBSN, JCTH and World journal of Hepatology. He served as Guest Editor for the 2022 Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism special issue on MAFLD and as a co-editor for the Hepatitis book (Elsevier).

He received multiple awards including 7-successive time winner of The Westmead Institute Scientific Excellence (WISE) Award. He is regularly invited to talk, including at premier meetings in APASL, EASL, AASLD, CDDW, APDW, and AMG,..etc.

Research interests

Liver fibrosis, Fatty liver, Genetics, Epigenetics, Chronic liver disease

Current grants

NHMRC 2022-2026 Investigator Grant
NHMRC 2021-2024 Ideas Grant
Cancer institute 2022-2026 The APRICA program- accelerated translational research in primary liver cancer

Awards and recognition

2022: Outstanding Contribution Award (Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition (HBSN) winner in 2021
2016-2022: 7 successive times winner of The Westmead Institute Scientific Excellence (WISE) Award for the best publication of the year
2015: Best presentation in the postgraduate seminar, University of Sydney.
2012: The Egyptian Government prize of the best published paper in this year.
2012: International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), University of Sydney
2012: EASL travel award to attend the EASL clinical school of hepatology, Bologna, Italy.
2011: A competitive award to attend the Erasmus Bioinformatics programme, Erasmus MC University, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2010: A competitive Egyptian government fellowship award to study insulin resistance and hepatitis C virus in Spain.
2009: The Ideal Physician prize, Egyptian Medical Syndicate.