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Overview

Brian R. Davidson is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the medical field, with particular attention to surgery, oncology, and hepatology. They have contributed substantially to studies within pulmonary and respiratory medicine as well as computer vision and pattern recognition.

The scientist's research includes significant engagement in topics related to pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, liver disease and transplantation, cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies, gallbladder and bile duct disorders, and pancreatitis pathology and treatment. Their work also spans liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope and depth of their studies:

  • Systemic chemotherapy with or without cetuximab in patients with resectable colorectal liver metastasis (New EPOC): long-term results of a multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial, 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • Longevity and replenishment of human liver-resident memory T cells and mononuclear phagocytes, 2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Characterisation and induction of tissue-resident gamma delta T-cells to target hepatocellular carcinoma, 2022, Nature Communications
  • New Insights on the Role of TRP Channels in Calcium Signalling and Immunomodulation: Review of Pathways and Implications for Clinical Practice, 2021, Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
  • Targeting human Acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase as a dual viral and T cell metabolic checkpoint, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy
  • Somaiah Aroori
  • Keith Roberts
  • Dhanny Gomez
  • Matthew J. Clarkson

The scientist has published repeatedly in various venues, notably:

  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Pancreatology
  • HPB
  • International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • British journal of surgery

Best Publications

  • Capecitabine compared with observation in resected biliary tract cancer (BILCAP): a randomised, controlled, multicentre, phase 3 study.

    John N Primrose;Richard P Fox;Daniel H Palmer;Hassan Z Malik

  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cholangiocarcinoma: an update

    Shahid A Khan;Brian R Davidson;Robert D Goldin;Nigel Heaton

  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cholangiocarcinoma: consensus document

    S A Khan;B R Davidson;R Goldin;S P Pereira

  • Elastography for the diagnosis of severity of fibrosis in chronic liver disease: a meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy

    E.A. Tsochatzis;K.S. Gurusamy;S. Ntaoula;E. Cholongitas

  • Virtual reality training for surgical trainees in laparoscopic surgery

    Myura Nagendran;Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy;Rajesh Aggarwal;Marilena Loizidou

  • Automatic Multi-Organ Segmentation on Abdominal CT With Dense V-Networks

    Eli Gibson;Francesco Giganti;Yipeng Hu;Ester Bonmati

  • Early versus delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy for people with acute cholecystitis

    Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy;Christopher Davidson;Christian Gluud;Brian R Davidson

  • Recommendations for management of patients with neuroendocrine liver metastases

    Andrea Frilling;Irvin M. Modlin;Mark Kidd;Christopher Russell

  • Meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials on the safety and effectiveness of early versus delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis

    K. Gurusamy;K. Samraj;C. Gluud;E. Wilson

  • Remote Ischemic Preconditioning: A Novel Protective Method From Ischemia Reperfusion Injury—A Review

    Niteen Tapuria;Yogesh Kumar;Meer Mohammad Habib;Mahmoud Abu Amara

  • Systematic review of randomized controlled trials on the effectiveness of virtual reality training for laparoscopic surgery.

    K Gurusamy;R Aggarwal;L Palanivelu;B R Davidson

  • Liver ischemia/reperfusion injury: Processes in inflammatory networks—A review

    Mahmoud Abu-Amara;Mahmoud Abu-Amara;Shi Yu Yang;Niteen Tapuria;Barry Fuller

  • Decellularized human liver as a natural 3D-scaffold for liver bioengineering and transplantation

    Giuseppe Mazza;Krista Rombouts;Andrew Rennie Hall;Luca Urbani

  • IL-2high tissue-resident T cells in the human liver: Sentinels for hepatotropic infection.

    Laura J. Pallett;Jessica Davies;Emily J. Colbeck;Francis Robertson

  • Pre‐operative biliary drainage for obstructive jaundice

    Yuan Fang;Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy;Qin Wang;Brian R Davidson

  • Low pressure versus standard pressure pneumoperitoneum in laparoscopic cholecystectomy

    Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy;Jessica Vaughan;Brian R Davidson

  • Somatostatin analogues for pancreatic surgery

    Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy;Rahul Koti;Giuseppe Fusai;Brian R Davidson

  • The contemporary role of antioxidant therapy in attenuating liver ischemia-reperfusion injury: a review.

    Georgios K. Glantzounis;Georgios K. Glantzounis;Henryk J. Salacinski;Wenxuan Yang;Brian R. Davidson;Brian R. Davidson

  • Detection and widespread distribution of Chlamydia pneumoniae in the vascular system and its possible implications.

    G Ong;B J Thomas;A O Mansfield;B R Davidson

  • Endoscopic sphincterotomy for common bile duct calculi in patients with gall bladder in situ considered unfit for surgery.

    B R Davidson;J P Neoptolemos;D L Carr-Locke

Frequent Co-Authors

Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy
Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy University College London
Alexander M. Seifalian
Alexander M. Seifalian Nanoregmed Ltd.
Andrew K. Burroughs
Andrew K. Burroughs University College London
Emmanuel Tsochatzis
Emmanuel Tsochatzis University College London
Matthew J. Clarkson
Matthew J. Clarkson University College London
David J. Hawkes
David J. Hawkes University College London
Amar P. Dhillon
Amar P. Dhillon University College London
Simon D. Taylor-Robinson
Simon D. Taylor-Robinson Imperial College London
Jimmy D. Bell
Jimmy D. Bell University of Westminster
George V. Papatheodoridis
George V. Papatheodoridis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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