Philippa Matthews
Philippa is a consultant in clinical infection at University College London Hospitals. As a clinical group leader at the Francis Crick Institute and with support from Wellcome funding, she leads research to study the diverse outcomes of HBV infection, through collaborations in the UK and in South Africa. Her group has a special interest in using pathogen sequencing to address translational questions, aiming to improve prevention, surveillance and treatment for HBV, and to understand and characterise different outcomes, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In DeLIVER Philippa will look for HBV genetic signatures that are linked to the development of HCC.