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New Horizons - myESR.org

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EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF RADIOLOGY 2013 | www.<strong>myESR</strong>.<strong>org</strong>DignJesús PrietoPamplona, SpainOpening LecturerJesús Prieto is professor of medicineand director of the departmentof hepatology and genetherapy at the Centre for AppliedMedical Research at the Universityof Navarra, Spain. He alsoserves as a consultant internist atthe University of Navarra Clinic.He is a pioneer of gene therapy inSpain and he contributed towardsunravelling the pathogenesis ofliver biliary cirrhosis. He alsoidentified cardiotrophin-1 as amolecule endowed with potenthepatoprotective properties whichconstitutes a natural defence of theliver against apoptosis and holdsconsiderable promise for the treatmentof patients with acute severeliver damage. Prieto has authoredover 300 journal articles, whichhave appeared in publicationssuch as The <strong>New</strong> England Journal ofMedicine, Journal of ExperimentalMedicine, and the Journal of ClinicalInvestigation to name just afew. At ECR 2013 he will deliverthe Opening Lecture ‘Promisesand facts of liver-directed genetherapy.’148ECR 2013 | Preliminary Programme EdiciÓn Invierno

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