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Shakir Ali, Ph.D. Reader, Department of Biochemistry F/Sc., Jamia Hamdard (Deemed University) Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi 110 062 India sali@jamiahamdard.ac.in

Scott L. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D. Fishberg Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Liver Diseases Box 1123, Mount Sinai School of Medicine 1425 Madison Ave., Room 11-70C New York, NY 10029-6574 USA Scott.Friedman@mssm.edu

Derek A. Mann, Ph.D. Professor and Chair in Molecular Biology Head, Liver Research Group Southampton University Hospital Southampton, SOI 6 6YD England UK dam2@soton.ac.uk