Prof Tim Kendall (BM, PhD, FRCPath)
Personal Chair of Liver Pathology; Honorary Consultant Pathologist
- MRC Centre for Inflammation Research
- Edinburgh Pathology
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 242 7007
- Email: Tim.Kendall@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Department of Pathology
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
51 Little France Crescent - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4SA
Background
Prof Kendall is Personal Chair of Liver Pathology at the University of Edinburgh and an NHS Lothian Consultant Liver Pathologist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. His research interests are steatotic liver disease, liver fibrogenesis, and primary liver cancer but he also provides histopathological support for other preclinical, translational, and clinical studies. He is the pathology and ethics lead for SteatoSITE, a national MASLD data commons.
He is pathology representative on committees of European and national liver organisations including BASL and the European Network for the Study of Cholangiocarcinoma. Prof Kendall graduated from Southampton University and trained in Southampton and Edinburgh.
Qualifications
B.Sc. (Hons) Biomedical Sciences, University of Southampton, 1999.
B.M., University of Southampton, 2000.
Ph.D., University of Southampton, 2008.
Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists, 2010.
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Scientific Advisory Board member, AMMF, 2025 – present.
- Chair, Clinical Trials Pathology subcommittee, The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2024 – present.
- Chair, NCRI Pathology Group, 2022 – 2023.
- Elected committee member and education subcommittee member, The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2021 – 2024.
- Editorial board member, Royal College of Pathologists Pathology Portal, 2021 – present.
- Chair, Research subcommittee of UK Liver Pathology Group, 2021 – 2024.
- Co-chair, NCRI CMPath SPIRIT-Path project, 2019 – 2023.
- Committee member and pathology representative, Cholangiocarcinoma-UK, 2019 – present.
- Committee member and pathology representative, British Liver Transplant Group, 2019 – 2021.
- Member and pathology representative, NCRI Hepatobiliary subgroup, 2018 – 2023.
- Member, Scottish HepaticoPancreatobiliary Network, 2018 – present.
- Committee member and pathology representative, British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL), 2018 – present.
- Member, Education & Training sub-committee of UK Liver Pathology Group, 2017 – present.
- Member, European Network for the Study of Cholangiocarcinoma (ENSCCA), 2015 – present.
Research summary
Prof Kendall is interested in hepatic myofibroblast biology, particular their role in liver scarring and primary and metastatic malignancy. He also undertakes histopathological review and scoring to facilitate translational and clincal research with local, national and international collaborators. He has a particular interest in quantitative and digital pathology in both basic science and clinical research settings.