Prof. Dr. Han Moshage

Prof. Han Moshage (1959) is a professor of Experimental Hepatology and Gastroenterology. He studied chemistry at the Radboud University of Nijmegen and graduated in 1983 with specialization in Biochemistry. After receiving his Ph.D. at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in 1987, he continued his career as a post-doctoral fellow at the Alcohol Research and Treatment Center of the VA Medical Center/Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, USA. From 1990–1993, he was a staff scientist at the Dept. of Hepatology, University Hospital Leuven in Belgium. Since 1993, he has been at the Dept. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the University of Groningen. In 2005, he was appointed full professor of Experimental Hepatology and Gastroenterology. Moshage’s research focuses on the mechanisms and manipulation of cell death, inflammation, and fibrogenesis in (chronic) inflammatory liver diseases, with a special emphasis on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), and the elucidation of signal transduction pathways involved in lipotoxicity as well as mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum stress.