Yury Popov is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He received an M.D. (1997) from Grodno State Medical School, Belarus, and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (2004) from Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, and trained in translational liver fibrosis research as an international Sheila Sherlock EASL Fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Popov is currently Director of Liver Fibrosis Research Lab & Core and is a co-Director of Translational Research Hub at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The Popov laboratory focuses on addressing the clinical problem of liver cirrhosis and its life-threatening sequelae via multidisciplinary pre-clinical and translational research, aiming to improve mechanistic understanding, measurement, and therapeutic targeting of the fibrotic process in the liver.