Project: Role of Natural Killer T (NKT) cells in Progressive Human Fatty Liver Disease
Hosting institution: Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham, UK (David Adams)

Project: Analysis of the restriction of HBV infection in mice
Hosting institution: Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany (Stephan Urban)

Project: Implication of gut microbiota in alcoholic liver disease
Hosting institution: Laboratory of Cytokines, chemokines and immunopathology. INSERM,  France (Gabriel Perlemuter)

Project: The role of the novel coinhibitory receptor B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) in the
pathogenesis of concomitant autoimmune liver and rheumatological conditions
Hosting institution: Institute of Liver Studies, King's College London School of Medicine, London, UK  (Diego Vergani)

Project: The influence of changes in extracellular matrix composition and biomechanics on macrophage phenotype and function during the initiation and resolution of liver fibrosis
Hosting institution: The University of Edinburgh/MRC Centre for Inflammation Research,  Scotland
(John Iredale)

Project: Effect of Resveratrol on Portal Hypertension in Cirrhotic Rats
Hosting institution: Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Spain (Jaime Bosch)

Project: Possible implication of miRNAs decreasing the expression of the anion exchanger 2 (AE2) in the intrahepatic biliary tree
Hosting institution. Laboratory of Prof. Nicholas F. LaRusso, Division of Gastroenterology,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Project: Proteomics identification of proteins that are dysregulated due to a mutation in PRKCSH-the gene that is mutated in polycystic liver patients
Hosting institution: Prof. Dr. Richard Zimmermann
Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg, Germany