Silence sets up SAB to strengthen liver pipeline

RNA interference company Silence Therapeutics has created a scientific advisory board with the appointment of two key opinion leaders in the area of liver diseases, Professors Detlef Schuppan and Massimo Pinzani. Professor Schuppan is a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist, director of molecular and translational medicine, and full professor of medicine at Mainz University Medical Centre in Germany. He is also professor of medicine and senior visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School. Professor Pinzani is professor of medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Florence, Italy, and visiting professor in the division of hepatology at Osaka City School of Medicine in Japan.