Professor William Rosenberg

Professor William Rosenberg is a graduate of the University of Cambridge. He studied clinical medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London, qualifying in 1983.

He undertook his general medical training at the MRC Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park Hospital, the Royal Brompton Hospital and the University of Oxford.

During his training in gastroenterology and hepatology he became a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, gaining a DPhil in 1992. He was Clinical Tutor in Medicine for 5 years during which time he was a founder of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford, pioneering the development of Evidence Based Medicine in Europe. He undertook further post-doctoral research in hepatology and higher medical training in Oxford before moving to Southampton in 1997.

He is Professor of Hepatology and Consultant Physician at the University of Southampton. His main areas of interest are the molecular and cellular aspects of the immune response to hepatitis C virus infection and clinical trials and clinical epidemiology of chronic liver disease. As an active researcher in hepatology his research spans epidemiology, clinical research in therapeutics and diagnostics and basic science investigating the immune response to hepatitis C.

Professor Rosenberg is the UK Clinical Research Network Associate Director for Experimental Medicine and Chair of the UK NHS R&D Forum.

He is Director of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility in Southampton, Director of the Southampton Clinical Research Institute and Director of Research and Development for Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust.