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2025

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Taiwan Leader Award

Overview

Jia-Horng Kao is affiliated with National Taiwan University in Taiwan. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a focus on multiple subfields including Epidemiology, Hepatology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their research encompasses several main topics related to liver health and infectious diseases. These include:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment

Jia-Horng Kao has a substantial number of publications across various journals. The most frequent venues for their work are:

  • Journal of the Formosan Medical Association (120 publications)
  • Journal of Hepatology (31 publications)
  • Hepatology International (27 publications)
  • Clinical and Molecular Hepatology (18 publications)
  • Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (15 publications)

Notable recent papers authored by or associated with Jia-Horng Kao include:

  • "The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of metabolic associated fatty liver disease," 2020, Hepatology International
  • "Hepatitis B Virus: Advances in Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy," 2020, Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • "Progress towards elimination goals for viral hepatitis," 2020, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • "Off-Therapy Response After Nucleos(t)ide Analogue Withdrawal in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B: An International, Multicenter, Multiethnic Cohort (RETRACT-B Study)," 2021, Gastroenterology
  • "Modelling NAFLD disease burden in four Asian regions-2019-2030," 2020, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Frequent collaborators in research include:

  • Chun-Jen Liu
  • Tung-Hung Su
  • Chen-Hua Liu
  • Tai-Chung Tseng
  • Pei-Jer Chen

Best Publications

  • Asian-Pacific clinical practice guidelines on the management of hepatitis B: a 2015 update.

    S. K. Sarin;M. Kumar;G. K. Lau;Z. Abbas

  • Global prevalence and genotype distribution of hepatitis C virus infection in 2015: a modelling study

    Sarah Blach;Stefan Zeuzem;Michael Manns;Ibrahim Altraif

  • Asian-Pacific consensus statement on the management of chronic hepatitis B: a 2008 update

    Yun-Fan Liaw;Nancy H. L. Leung;Jia-Horng Kao;Teerha Piratvisuth

  • Hepatitis B genotypes correlate with clinical outcomes in patients with chronic hepatitis B

    Jia-Horng Kao;Pei-Jer Chen;Ming-Yang Lai;§ Ding-Shinn Chen‡

  • Asian-Pacific consensus statement on the management of chronic hepatitis B: a 2012 update.

    Yun Fan Liaw;Jia Horng Kao;Teerha Piratvisuth;Henry Lik Yuen Chan

  • Global control of hepatitis B virus infection

    Jia-Horng Kao;Ding-Shinn Chen

  • Hepatitis B Virus Genotype and DNA Level and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Prospective Study in Men

    Ming-Whei Yu;Shiou-Hwei Yeh;Pei-Jer Chen;Yun-Fan Liaw

  • Hepatitis B genotypes and the response to interferon therapy.

    Jia-Horng Kao;Nan-Hui Wu;Pei-Jer Chen;Ming-Yang Lai

  • High Levels of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Increase Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients With Low HBV Load

    Tai–Chung Tseng;Tai–Chung Tseng;Chun–Jen Liu;Hung–Chih Yang;Tung–Hung Su

  • Advancing the global public health agenda for NAFLD: a consensus statement.

    Jeffrey V Lazarus;Henry E Mark;Quentin M Anstee;Juan Pablo Arab

  • Basal core promoter mutations of hepatitis B virus increase the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis B carriers.

    Jia–Horng Kao;Pei–Jer Chen;Ming–Yang Lai;Ding–Shinn Chen

  • Asian-Pacific consensus statement on the management of chronic hepatitis B: a 2005 update.

    Yun-Fan Liaw;Nancy Leung;Richard Guan;George K.K. Lau

  • The Asian pacific association for the study of the liver clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of metabolic associated fatty liver disease

    Mohammed Eslam;Shiv K. Sarin;Vincent Wai Sun Wong;Jian Gao Fan

  • The present and future disease burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with today's treatment paradigm.

    A. Sibley;Kwang Hyub Han;A. Abourached;L. A. Lesmana

  • The clinical implications of hepatitis B virus genotype: Recent advances.

    Chih-Lin Lin;Jia-Horng Kao

  • The CRISPR/Cas9 System Facilitates Clearance of the Intrahepatic HBV Templates In Vivo

    Su-Ru Lin;Hung-Chih Yang;Yi-Ting Kuo;Chun-Jen Liu

  • Hepatitis B surface antigen quantification: why and how to use it in 2011 - a core group report.

    Henry Lik-Yuen Chan;Alex Thompson;Michelle Martinot-Peignoux;Teerha Piratvisuth

  • Hepatitis B viral genotypes: clinical relevance and molecular characteristics

    Jia-Horng Kao

  • All-oral daclatasvir plus asunaprevir for hepatitis C virus genotype 1b: a multinational, phase 3, multicohort study

    Michael Peter Manns;Stanislas B Pol;Ira M Jacobson;Patrick M Marcellin

  • Hepatitis B Virus: Advances in Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy.

    Mindie H. Nguyen;Grace Wong;Edward Gane;Edward Gane;Jia-Horng Kao

Frequent Co-Authors

Ding-Shinn Chen
Ding-Shinn Chen National Taiwan University
Pei-Jer Chen
Pei-Jer Chen National Taiwan University
Chun-Jen Liu
Chun-Jen Liu National Taiwan University
Ming-Yang Lai
Ming-Yang Lai National Taiwan University
Hung-Chih Yang
Hung-Chih Yang National Taiwan University
Ming-Lung Yu
Ming-Lung Yu Kaohsiung Medical University
Henry Lik-Yuen Chan
Henry Lik-Yuen Chan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hwai I. Yang
Hwai I. Yang Academia Sinica
Kwang Hyub Han
Kwang Hyub Han Yonsei University
Chien-Jen Chen
Chien-Jen Chen Academia Sinica

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