Neil Henderson MD, PhD is an academic hepatologist and Chair of Tissue Repair and Regeneration at the University of Edinburgh.

Neil undertook medical training in Edinburgh and London before completing a Wellcome Trust funded PhD at the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Edinburgh. He then trained in hepatology and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship, during which time he spent a 3 year post-doctoral period based at the University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Neil was then awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Clinical Science to investigate mechanisms of organ fibrosis and regeneration, using cutting-edge approaches including the rapidly evolving field of single cell genomics.