Aleksander Krag, MD, PhD, MBA is Professor and Department Chair, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Odense University Hospital, Director of Centre for Liver Research (FLASH) Odense University Hospital and DIAS Chair of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark. He also serves as Secretary General of European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL) 2023-2025.
Aleksander Krag is involved in and hold leader positions in a number of large research collaborations in liver diseases, including being director of FLASH: Fibrosis Fatty Liver and Steatohepatitis Research Centre Odense, PI in MicrobLiver, Coordinator in the H2020 project GALAXY: Gut and Liver Axis in Alcoholic Liver Fibrosis and partner and PI in the H2020 projects MicrobPredict, LiverScreen, The International Human Microbiome Action and LiverAIM and PI in the Center of Excellence Center for Functional Genomics and Tissue Plasticity.
His passion is research with focus on clinical aspects of steatotic liver diseases (alcohol and non-alcohol related), liver fibrosis, complications to cirrhosis and microbiome. Output comprise >250 papers in that space. Aleksander Krag is particularly interested in biomarker research throughout the full value chain from discovery to implementation and how omics and AI can be used in next generation biomarkers.
