Michael P. Manns MD

Michael P. Manns, MD, is Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology at the Medical School of Hannover in Germany. Prof Manns attended medical schools at the University of Vienna in Austria and the University of Mainz in Germany. He received his postgraduate training at the Free University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Mainz, where he became Professor of Medicine in 1986. Prof Manns was a Research Associate at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, USA, from 1987 to 1988.

He has a long-term research interest in liver diseases, with a main focus on viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver transplantation, regenerative medicine, and cell therapy. He is Founder and Chairman of Hep-Net, a national network of competence on viral hepatitis, and the German Liver Foundation.

He was President of the German Society of Gastroenterology in 2006, President of the German Association for the Study of the Liver (GASL) in 2013, the German Society of Internal Medicine for 2013/4 and is President Elect of United European Gastroenterology (UEG). Prof. Manns has received numerous awards, including the International Hans Popper Award in 1995 and the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Recognition Award in 2007.