Prof Tom Bird

Biography

Prof Tom Bird is the Clinical Group Leader at the CRUK Scotland Institute and a Consultant Hepatologist at the University of Edinburgh.

Notable achievements and awards: 

  • 2019 received UEG Rising Star Award, 2019  
  • 2019 awarded Francis Avery Jones Medal by the British Society of Gastroenterology 
  • 2015 named Young Gastroenterologist of the Year 

Research interests: 

  • Liver injury, regeneration and cancer 
  • Mouse models of hepatocellular cancer 
  • Early detection