Manuela Merli is a Full Professor in Gastroenterology at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is a member of many prestigious associations, including the European Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver, the Italian Society of Gastroenterology, the European Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, and the Italian Society for Transplant Organs. Her scientific interests lie mostly in internal medicine, cirrhosis, gastroenterology, surgery, and hepatic encephalopathy. She frequently studies issues relating to endocrinology and internal medicine. Her cirrhosis study combines topics in areas such as liver disease, liver transplantation, transplantation, and ascites.