Newcastle Fibrosis Research Group

The Newcastle Fibrosis Research Group is a top-level multi-disciplinary research group of Newcastle University highly experienced in the underlying mechanisms of fibrosis in liver, lung, kidney, heart, skin and joints.

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As part of a higher education institution, engaging ourselves with society is a key priority. Fibrotic diseases involve complex mechanisms which we think should be understandable by everyone. Teaching and wide diffusion knowledge about Fibrosis is one of our leading missions.

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News & Events

A new NFRG review by Fiona Oakley published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Interrogating mechanisms of liver fibrosis with omics

A new NFRG review by Daniel Geh, Jack Leslie and Derek Mann published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Neutrophils as potential therapeutic targets in hepatocellular carcinoma

A new book chapter in the Encyclopaedia of Respiratory Medicine By Will Reilly, Rachel Burgoyne and Lee Borthwick

The Role of Epithelial Damage in the Pulmonary Immune Response

A new Review by Rachel Burgoyne and Lee Borthwick in MDPI

The Role of Epithelial Damage in the Pulmonary Immune Response

New NFRG publication lead by Maria Garcia published in Hepatology

An mTORC1-Plin3 pathway is essential to activate lipophagy and protects against hepatosteatosis

Letizia Marchetti Best Flash Talk at BIRA Inaugural Conference

"Possible systemic roles of hepatic NFkB1 in inflammageing" presented in the obesity, metabolism and ageing session

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