School of Medicine University of Zagreb (UZSM)

University of Zagreb School of Medicine (UZSM) is internationally recognized academic institution devoted to excellence in education, scientific research and transfer of knowledge in the area of biomedicine and health care. UZSM participated in seven FP7 (one collaborative and two REGPOT as coordinator) ten HORIZON 2020 projects (one as coordinator) and currently participating in five Horizon Europe. With its laboratories, personnel and other facilities UZSM takes part and provides support to full range of research activities from basic science to clinical trials.

University of Zagreb, School of Medicine will take part in WP6 and WP7. It will provide health research management support, supervise Good Clinical and Good Distribution Practice implementation, supervise Ethical issues and approvals, provide facilities and man power for blood analyses, dissemination activates, administrative and management support to the project.

University clinical hospital Dubrava (UCHD)

University clinical hospital Dubrava (UCHD) is one of the leading hospitals of national significance and center of excellence for liver diseases affiliated to the University of Zagreb School of Medicine. It is tertiary level health-care facility capable of performing the most complex work-up of patients with liver disease, including the full spectrum of non-invasive and invasive diagnostic methods, as well as therapeutic procedures. As the academic center it is included in several international collaborative research projects and clinical trials, and continuously invests efforts into researches that are focused mainly on alcoholic and metabolic associated steatotic liver disease, cholangiopathies, liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension, including the performance of non-invasive diagnostic methods, and discovery of new biomarkers and therapeutic targets for portal hypertension.

University Clinical Hospital Dubrava will take part in clinical study of WP4, including the recruitment of patients, performing medical examinations, liver stiffness measurements and collecting blood samples as per the study protocol. It will take care about patients who test positive and who will be thereafter referred to hepatologist for further workup and treatment.

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