Graham Foster

Professor Graham Foster is a faculty member at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, and serves as a consultant at Barts Health Trust. His career spans clinical and laboratory research in Hepatology, with a focus on chronic viral hepatitis.

• Education: Medicine at Oxford and London Universities (1980s), PhD in Molecular Biology (1992).

His research interests include:

• Clinical research on viral hepatitis natural history and patient impact
• Laboratory investigations of hepatotropic virus virology and hepatitis C replication models
• National/international hepatitis C elimination programs (England, Pakistan, Zambia)
• Impact of viral polymorphisms on treatment and liver cancer development

His scientific awards include:

• Editor of The Journal of Viral Hepatitis
• President of BASL
• Chairman of NHSE Hepatobiliary Specialised Commissioning Clinical Reference Group

He has led grants from:

• National Institute for Health Research
• Medical Research Council (MC_U190092710, MR/K010239/1)
• Department of Health (RP-PG-0609-10181, RP-PG-1209-10038)

His work involves the Blizard Institute’s Centre for Immunobiology, where he supervises research on hepatitis virology and clinical programs.