WELCOME TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVER
Nominations for the BASL Distinguished Service Award 2025 are open.
Read more on how to nominate on the Awards page of the website.
Nominators & nominees must be BASL members & based in the UK
Nominations close 9am 31st July 2025.
BASL ANNUAL MEETING
7th-10th October 2025
BASL ANNUAL MEETING 2025 - Tues 7th - Fri 10th October
Including: BLTG Transplant Meeting 7th & 8th (am) October
BLNA Nurse meeting 8th (pm) and 9th October
Venue: International Convention Centre, Belfast
Registration Open! Early Bird Rates until 8th August.
Applications for travel busaries open for nurses, pharmacists, AHP's read more on the BLNA webpage > HERE
Visit the Conference website for full details > HERE
BASL AND BASL SUB-GROUPS
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The British Association for the Study of the Liver is a multi-disciplinary society with around 900 members composed of interested individuals from clinical medicine, clinical and basic research and allied professions. |
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British Liver Nurses' Association is a professional nursing organisation aiming to develop knowledge and understanding of liver disease, in order to improve the quality of patient care. |
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The British Viral Hepatitis Group aims to improve the management and study of patients with chronic viral liver disease, bringing together UK hepatologists, gastroenterologists, infectious disease physicians, virologists and interested epidemiologists. |
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The BLTG (British Liver Transplant Group) was launched in 2014 to represent the professional interests of liver transplantation in the UK and promote strategic and academic development. The BLTG will foster close relationships with BTS (British Transplant Society) and LICAGE (Liver Intensive Care Group of Europe) and will build on the role of the UK and Ireland Annual Meeting by delivering structure and authority to the group. |
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Is a professional pharmacy organisation aiming to develop knowledge and understanding of liver disorders including viral hepatitis, in order to improve the quality of patient care, through medicines optimisation, collaborative and multi-disciplinary working and promoting patient-focused research. |
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British Association for Allied Health Professionals in Liver is a professional group for AHP’s specialising or working with patients with liver conditions. Bringing together specialist hepatology AHP’s from across the four Nations. Their aim is to promote excellence through the provision of AHP care to all patients with liver disorders. |
News
BASL Committee and BLTG Committee Elections 2025 - Voting Now Open
Read moreBASL members are entitled to vote in elections for members of the BASL Committee and BLTG Committee.
Following the recent round of nominations for roles on the BASL Committee and BLTG Committee a vote by the membership will now take place for four of the advertised posts.
1) You are voting for BASL Treasurer.
Your candidates are:
Dr Ahmed Elsharkawy (re-elect)
Dr Nwe Ni Than
2) You are also voting for BASL Services Committee Lead.
Your candidates are:
Dr Michael Allison (re-elect)
Dr Ryan Buchanan
3) You are also voting for BASL BVHG Chair.
Your candidates are:
Dr Kosh Agarwal
Professor Patrick Kennedy (re-elect)
4) You are also voting for BLTG Transplant Hepatology Representative.
Your candidates are:
Professor Matthew Armstrong
Dr Claire Kelly
Dr Jonathan Potts (re-elect)
Get Involved and Have Your Say - members will receive a communication to their registered BASL email address on 11th July 2025.
IMPORTANT: Your vote will only be counted if you are a verified BASL member. So that we can verify that you are a BASL Member, please enter your name, contact email address and place of work when prompted at the end of the survey.
The deadline for voting is 09:00hrs Friday 1st August 2025.
The result with be announced at the Annual Business Meeting of the Association on Friday 10th October 2025 during the BASL Annual Meeting in Belfast 7th – 10th October 2025.
If you are a BASL member and do not receive a communication, please contact admin@basl.org.uk .
Venesection treatment in haemochromatosis – current best practice from the BSG/BASL Special Interest Group
Read moreThe link for open access to the article is through the Frontline Gastroenterology website and can be found > HERE
(flgastro- 2025-103172)
ANDY BURROUGHS YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2025 - APPLICATIONS OPEN - CLOSING 1ST JULY
Read moreThe Andy Burroughs Young Investigator Award was set up in honour of the late Professor Andrew Burroughs.
Professor Burroughs was an eminent and world renowned Professor of Hepatology and Consultant Physician/Hepatologist and among his many achievements including his wide area of expertise in cirrhosis and portal hypertension and significant contribution to liver Transplantation.
Eligibility
This prize is awarded to young investigators who have contributed to clinical or translational research related to liver transplantation who are in a training non-substantive post. This year the winner will receive free registration to the meeting, an award and a prize of £1,000 and an invite to deliver the prize lecture and present their research at the BLTG Annual Meeting.
To apply, please send one A4 sheet outlining the research and another A4 sheet listing up to 5 related publications.
NB: one person cannot win the Andy Burroughs Young Investigator Award and the Dame Sheila Sherlock Research Prize in the same year. Nor can they win a second award with the same body of work as the first.
You must be a BASL member to apply.
Please send submissions to conference@basl.org.uk before the deadline of Tuesday 1st July 2025.
BASL is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of its work. It is actively promoting equal opportunities and access for all our members regardless of their background.
(added 13.5.25 / reposted 26.6.25)
DAME SHEILA SHERLOCK RESEARCH PRIZE 2025 - APPLICATIONS OPEN - CLOSING 1ST JULY
Read moreEach year BASL presents the Dame Sheila Sherlock research prize, one of the highlights of the annual meeting. This prize is awarded annually to recognise the enormous contribution of Dame Sheila Sherlock to the development of Hepatology as a discipline in its own right.
Dame Sheila was involved in the foundation of the British Liver Club in 1961, which subsequently evolved into The British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL). She was one of our past presidents and the first recipient of the BASL Distinguished Service Award.
Eligibility
In keeping with Dame Sheila’s enthusiasm for fostering young researchers, this eponymous research prize is awarded to young investigators without substantive posts in either medicine, science or allied health roles for their research contributions in the field of hepatology.
The winner will receive free registration to the meeting, an award and a prize of £1,000 and an invite to deliver the prize lecture and present their research at the BASL Annual Meeting (8th-10th October 2025).
To apply, please send one A4 sheet outlining your research and another A4 sheet listing up to 5 related publications.
NB: one person cannot win the Dame Sheila Sherlock Research Prize and Andy Burroughs Young Investigator Award in the same year. Nor can they win a second award with the same body of work as the first.
You must be a BASL member to apply.
Please send submissions to conference@basl.org.uk before the deadline of Tuesday 1st July 2025.
BASL is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of its work. It is actively promoting equal opportunities and access for all our members regardless of their background.
(added 13.5.25 / reposted 26.6.25)
Gilead UK & Ireland Liver Disease Fellowship and Medical Grants Programme
Read moreWe are getting in touch to let you know that Gilead UK and Ireland are now accepting applications for the 2025 Liver Disease Fellowship and Medical Grants Programme.
The Gilead Fellowship and Medical Grants Programme is a medical grants funding stream that supports innovative best practice projects and initiatives that aim to improve the care of people living with liver diseases with a focus on viral hepatitis (B, C and Delta) and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC).
They are inviting applications from healthcare and third sector organisations who are seeking funding for a project that aligns with the goals of the programme.
The application window will close on Friday 18th July 2025.
Please visit the Gilead UK&I website HERE or reach out via email to gileadfellowship@axon-com.com .
The Gilead UK & Ireland Liver Disease Fellowship Programme is organised and funded by Gilead Sciences Ltd.
Job no: UKI-UNB-1251, DOP: June 2025
Events
Please save the date for the next MASLD SIG meeting taking place in Oxford on the 5th September 2025.
Places for this meeting are limited, so please contact sigs@basl.org.uk to reserve your place.
Date: Friday 5th September 2025
Time: 10:30 - 5:00
Location: Jesus College, Oxford
Travel information: see here
Agenda: Download MASLD SIG Meeting_Oxford_2025_ AGENDA- V2.pdf
Please register for attendance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SBSRxxNISRWFq26VbNzxMQ
Date: Friday 12th September
Location: Hilton Leeds City Hotel, Neville Street, Leeds, LS1 4BX
Time: 9:30 - 4:30
Agenda: Download BASL_Portal_Hypertension_SIG_Meeting_Agenda_Leeds.pdf
Registration: Opening soon
Save the Date
British Association for AHP's (BAAL) in Liver in person meeting.
Location: Birmingham
More details to follow
The 3rd UK HBV meeting.
Date: Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd September
Venue: Milton Hill House, Abingdon, Oxford OX13 6AF
There are 6 plenary talks scheduled, covering an update of clinical trials for novel agents versus HBV and HDV, the immunobiology of HBV, epidemiological modelling, AI-driven protein-folding models, the molecular basis of HBV and HDV persistence, and an update on clinical and public health issues from the National Strategy Group for Viral Hepatitis. The remainder of the meeting will be research presentations covering all aspects of HBV, including a session on HBV in pregnancy and childhood.
Further details can be found on the event website > HERE which includes a link to enable registration.
To Register click > HERE .
For those wishing to present their research, all that is needed is a title, and all submitted titles will be given a slot - this information is entered via the Registration portal.
Registration Costs:
£140 for post-docs and above
£70 for students and below
The registration costs includes overnight accommodation and all meals at the venue.
It would be enormously helpful if people could register before 11th August 2025 - thank you.
Contact james.harris@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions.
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