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Mark  McPhail

Dr Mark McPhail

Reader in Experimental Medicine

Research interests

  • Biomedical and life sciences

Biography

Mark McPhail is a Reader in Experimental Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Liver Intensive Care and Hepatology. He graduated with a PhD in Physics from Strathclyde University and then Medicine and Surgery from Glasgow University. He is interested in immunometabolism in liver failure syndromes and how lipid derangement affects innate immunity. He also has a keen interest in statistical methods and outcome research and is the Chief Scientific Investigator of the BOPPP (Betablockers or Placebo in Portal Hypertension) study. His group is based in the Insitute of Liver Studies at Denmark Hill and he collaborates with Imperial College and the United States Acute Liver Failure Study Group.

    Research

    OILRIG
    Lipids and Membranes Research Interest Group

    A Lipids and Membranes Research Interest Group

    News

    Quest for biomarkers in blood samples of COVID-19 patients to better understand host response

    Researchers from the School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences have been analysing blood samples of patients with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis to better...

    Blood samples COVID-19

    How technology designed for outer space can help detect disease on planet earth

    Researchers are trialing technology used to study gases in space to detect sepsis.

    RAL Space

      Research

      OILRIG
      Lipids and Membranes Research Interest Group

      A Lipids and Membranes Research Interest Group

      News

      Quest for biomarkers in blood samples of COVID-19 patients to better understand host response

      Researchers from the School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences have been analysing blood samples of patients with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis to better...

      Blood samples COVID-19

      How technology designed for outer space can help detect disease on planet earth

      Researchers are trialing technology used to study gases in space to detect sepsis.

      RAL Space