Jude Oben
Consultant hepatologist
Biography
Dr Jude Oben is a leading consultant hepatologist based at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and holds an additional consultant appointment in gastroenterology. He was previously a consultant hepatologist at the Royal Free Hospital and a Wellcome Trust intermediate fellow and senior lecturer. Most recently, Jude has been an associate professor in the institute for liver and digestive health at the University College London.
Jude has a PhD in pharmacology from University College London. He studied medicine at Oxford with a period at Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA, with a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, USA.
He is involved in all the most prominent current clinical trials in obesity related liver disease (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, NAFLD).
Education and training
Medical training
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Oxford University – BM, BCh
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Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA, Research Fellow – immunology
- University College London – PhD in pharmacology
Postgraduate medical training
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Hammersmith Hospital (Imperial College) – cardiology and internal medicine
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Imperial/St Mary's – ophthalmology – eye surgery
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St Thomas' Hospital – critical care and neurology
Specialist medical registrar training: gastroenterology and hepatology
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North east London rotation
- John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, two years postdoctoral fellowship – hepatology
Research interests
- University College London, institute for liver and digestive health: neuroscience and hepatology – stellate cells and hepatic fibrosis plus mechanisms of obesity-related liver disease (ORLD) including trans-generational transmission of ORLD. Supervised to completion five post-doctoral fellows, three PhDs, one MD and eight intercalated BSc projects
- King's College London, department of women and children's health, school of life course sciences - mechanisms of ORLD including trans-generational transmission of ORLD
Awards
Funding
- Wellcome Trust intermediate fellowship
- Medical Research Council – industrial collaborative award in science and engineering European Union – European Union – Fp7 – carbalive award – co-investigator
- Intercept pharmaceuticals
- University College London grand challenge scheme – innate immune mechanisms in developmental programming of obesity induced liver disease
- Fiorina Elliot award bursary: developmental programming in the pathogenesis of fatty pancreas disease
- Royal Geographic Society expedition bursary
- St Thomas' Charity – intra-gastric balloon and renal disease
Pharmaceutical industry advisory board service
- Bristol-Myer Squibb pharmaceuticals, cycle pharmaceuticals, gilead pharmaceuticals, intercept pharmaceuticals, Janssen pharmaceuticals, norgine pharmaceuticals
Other professional activities (reviewer)
- Alimentary pharmacology and therapeutics
- American journal of pathology
- Clinical liver disease
- Gut
- Hepatology
- Journal of hepatology
- Liver International
Awards
- currently an honorary associate professor in hepatology at University College London
Last updated: June 2020