The Foundation for Liver Research; advancing the diagnosis & treatment of liver disease
through groundbreaking research at the Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies. 

Liver disease will affect someone you know and love. You can help us to improve their chances of early diagnosis and successful treatment through translational research. The Foundation for Liver Research funds and manages the work of research staff and students in partnership with King’s College London University and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at the Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies.

For over 50 years, the Foundation for Liver Research has supported ground-breaking research programmes into liver disease including much of the early pioneering work at King’s College Hospital into liver transplantation and acute liver failure, under the direction of the charity’s founding Director, Professor Roger Williams.

Since 2016, research has taken place within the FLRs purpose-built Institute, recently
renamed The Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies (RW-ILS). The RW-ILS represents a
unique clinical academic partnership between the Foundation for Liver Research, King’s College London and King’s College Hospital that encompasses a multi-disciplinary team focused on liver research and the improvement of outcomes for patients with liver diseases. Major areas of research during the past 5 years have included hepatocellular carcinoma, liver tissue engineering, complications of cirrhosis, liver-gut axis, chronic and acute liver disease and liver immunology. Our current research themes include Transplantation, Advanced Therapies & Regenerative Medicine, Steatotic Liver Diseases, Cirrhosis & Gut-Liver Axis, Hepatobiliary Cancer and Paediatric Hepatology & Associated Rare Diseases.

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