Jordi Gracia-Sancho, PhD, FAASLD

Biography

Jordi Gracia-Sancho MSc PhD FAASLD is the Chief of the Liver Vascular Biology Research Group at the IDIBAPS Research Institute – Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Associate Researcher at the Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine – University of Bern, & Scientific Director of the Spanish Research Consortium on Liver & Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD), Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Jordi's research focuses on liver vascular pathobiology with special interest in the role of sinusoidal cells, and their interactions, in acute and chronic liver diseases, and in aging. He (co-)authored more than 135 peer-reviewed original papers and reviews, and currently serves as Editor in Chief of npj Gut and Liver, a Nature portfolio journal. In addition, he is invited professor in different universities within Spain and Europe and co-leads diverse educational initiatives including the LiverSeminars Program (www.liverseminars.eu), the 2018 EASL-Basic School of Hepatology, the 2020 APASL-Symposium on Regression of Portal Hypertension, the 2020 AASLD-Symposium on Senescence and Liver Diseases, the 2021 EASL-Symposium on Sinusoidal Cells in Liver Diseases and the 2023 & 2024 AMH-Irwin Arias Symposium.

Prof Gracia has been invited speaker in different national and international conferences, including the annual meetings of the European, American and Asia-Pacific associations of Hepatology. He has been member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Association for the Study of the Liver (AEEH) and the Steering Committee of the Portal Hypertension Special Interest Group of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). He is now member of the Governing Board of AEEH, the Basic Research Committee of AASLD and the Baveno Cooperation-EASL Consortium Steering Committee. In 2016 he received the Emerging Leader Award from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). He served as Scientific Secretary of the International Society for Hepatic Sinusoidal Research (ISHSR, www.ishsr.net), being now the President of this Society and organizing its 23rd meeting in Tarragona (Spain) in May 2026.