Professor Anil Dhawan is a Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology at King’s College Hospital in London, UK, with a special interest in liver cell transplantation for liver-based metabolic defects and acute liver failure. Prof Dhawan is the Director of King’s Cell Therapy Unit. He is well known internationally and has held board-level appointments with the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, International Liver Transplantation Society, and International Cell and Regenerative Society and Transplantation Society. He is also the Director of Research and Development, King’s College Hospital, London. He has 421 peer-reviewed publications, an H Index of 77 and over 22,000 citations.