Research Interests: Professor Foster leads an academic group studying the elimination of hepatitis C in England and abroad. As the national clinical lead for the NHSE Hepatitis C elimination program he is responsible for developing and assessing novel interventions that will lead to reductions in the burden of viral hepatitis. He works with international collaborators in Pakistan and Zambia studying new approaches to managing viral hepatitis and leads a group evaluating the impact of viral polymorphisms on treatment and development of liver cancer.