Yury V. Popov

Director of Liver Research, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

Yury V. Popov received an M.D. (1997) from Grodno State Medical School, Belarus and PhD in Biochemistry (2004) from Institute of Biochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. He became the first scientist from Eastern Europe to win the prestigious Sheila Sherlock EASL fellowship award to pursue postdoctoral training in translational liver fibrosis research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. In 2005, Dr. Popov relocated to USA to join faculty at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Popov is currently directing a Liver Fibrosis Research Lab and Core and holding an appointment of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He is also an Associate Editor of American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, and ad hoc reviewer for over 30 scientific journals. Dr. Yury Popov’s laboratory’s major research focus is on liver fibrosis/cirrhosis and its life-threatening sequelae. Specifically, his team investigates the basic mechanisms of progression and regression of liver scarring, with the goal of the development of non-invasive diagnostic tools to measure these processes in the clinic, and novel therapies to prevent and reverse cirrhosis and its lifethreatening complications such as primary liver cancers.