Professor Andrew Burroughs, who has died on March 15 of the present year, was a distinguished scientist and served as a Consultant Physician and Hepatologist at the Royal Free Hospital, Sheila Shelrock Liver Centre and UCL Institute of Liver and Digestive Health. He qualified in Liverpool with a MB ChB Honours in 1976, gained his MRCP in 1978 and FRCP in 1991. He was a Fellow of the European Board of Gastroenterology. He had been Scientific Secretary of the European Association for the Study of the Liver 1997-1999. He continued his association with EASL as administrative secretary until 2001. He was a council member of the United European Gastroenterology Federation until 2002, and a council member of the International Association for the Study of the Liver. He was a member of the MRC advisory board in the UK, from 1997 onwards. He was a member of Council of the British Society of Gastroenterology from 1992 to 1995 and a vice-president since 2012. Andrew Burroughs main research interests were portal hypertension, variceal bleeding, coagulopathy in cirrhosis, primary biliary cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, prognosis in liver disease and liver transplantation. He led world-class clinical research at the Royal Free, which resulted in over 500 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of over 60. He mentored generations of hepatologists and was responsible for more than 100 international fellows that trained and did research at the Royal Free. He was undoubtedly one of the greatest hepatologists of his time, always full of energy and ideas. Above all, he remained humble, very accessible, generous with his time and always willing to help. In Annals of Hepatology we were honored to have him as associate editor and during all that time he stood out for his enthusiasm, passion, ingenuity and firmness
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