About

Professor Jean-Francois Dufour received his degree in mathematics and MD degree from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After training in internal medicine in Switzerland, he joined the laboratory of Professor I. Arias at Tufts University in Boston. He returned to the clinic to complete a gastroenterology fellowship with Professor M. Kaplan at the New England Medical Center. Then, Professor Dufour established his own laboratory at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where he was clinic director and head for Hepatology for 10 years.Professor Dufour is a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (fellow), the American Gastroenterology Association (fellow), the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). He is a founding member of the International Liver Cancer Association. He was twice member of governing board of EASL as scientific committee member and then as educational councillor. He was member of the United European Gastroenterology educational committee. Professor Dufour has a large clinical experience and a broad understanding of basic and translational research, its bottleneck and the challenges in disseminating and exploiting knowledge. Professor Dufour has served as principal investigator on numerous clinical studies, focusing on NASH and hepatocellular carcinoma.