Project Title: Panobinostat, a novel pan-DAC inhibitor, induces autophagic cell death in hepatocellular carcinoma  
 
Head of Department: Matthias Ocker
Department of Medicine 1, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany

Project Title: Innate response to hepatitis B infection: how the virus could activate and overcome it.     
Head of Department: Ulrike Protzer
Helmholtz Center, Virology Institute, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Project Title: Effect of pirferidone and thiol containing antioxidants in Nrf2 related pathway and expression of inflammatory and fibrogenic mediators in human hepatic stellate cells
 
Head of Department: Massimo Pinzani
Department of Medecine, University of Florence, Italy

Project Title: The molecular basis of Th17 CD4 T cell recruitment to the liver  
 
Head of Department: David Adams
Liver Research Group Institute of Biomedical Research, The Medical School University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

Project Title: Innate immune modulation by IFN-a therapy in chronic HBV infection
  
Head of Department: Mala Maini
Department of Immunology and Molecular Pathology, UCL London, UK

Project Title: New metabolomic biomarkers for fatty liver in a novel in vitro model for NAFLD and NASH 
 
Head of Department: Claudio Tiribelli
Centro Studi Fegato AMEA Science Park Basinizze SS14Km 1635 34012 Trieste Italy

Project Title: Do antigen specific responses to hepatitis C virus promote hepatic stellate cell activity and influence fibrosis progression in chronic hepatitis C infection?
 
Affiliation: Liver Research Group, Division of Infection, Inflammation and Repair, University of Southampton School of Medicine, UK

Hosting institution: California Pacific Medical Center. San Francisco, USA
Head of department: Dr Stewart Cooper

Project title: Evaluation of trimetazidine and melatonin in IGL-1 solution to preserve steatotic liver for transplantation

Affiliation: Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Università di Pavia, Italia  
 
Hosting institution: Department of Experimental Pathology, Instituto de Investigaciones
Biomedicas de Barcelona (IIBB), Spain  
Head of department: Dr. Antoni Rimola Castella
 

Project Title: Derivatives of ursodeoxycholic acid in therapy of liver fibrosis: study on rat thioacetamide-induced fibrosis reversal

Affiliation: Division of Biochemical Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus

Hosting institution:  Laboratory of Experimental and Molecular Hepatology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz
Head of department: Prof. Dr. M. Trauner