Professor Fallowfield is a physician scientist and Principal Investigator at the University of Edinburgh's new Institute for Regeneration & Repair. During medical training in Southampton, he undertook a PhD on the reversibility of liver fibrosis as an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow. He relocated to Edinburgh in 2008 as an Academy of Medical Sciences/Health Foundation Clinician Scientist Fellow. In 2014 he was awarded an NHS Research Scotland Senior Clinical Fellowship and was promoted to Personal Chair in 2018. Professor Fallowfield's research interests span basic science to clinical trials and focus particularly on the development of new diagnostic tests and treatments for chronic liver disease and its complications. He is the clinical lead for 'SteatoSITE' – the world's first data commons for MASLD.