Sabela Lens is a Hepatologist at the Liver Unit of Hospital Clínic of Barcelona in Spain. She achieved her medical degree at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and subsequently specialised in digestive diseases at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. She subsequently achieved an associate professor position at the University of Barcelona. Dr Lens’ scientific scope includes mainly clinical and translational research on viral hepatitis with a particular focus on the virological and host factors involved in the natural history of HCV and HBV/HDV infection. She has made relevant scientific contributions regarding the impact of HCV all-oral antiviral treatments in special populations such as patients with clinical significant portal hypertension or with cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis.
Her current line of research focuses on unravelling the host immune responses in patients with HBV/HDV infection and its modulation by antiviral therapy. Dr Lens is a principal investigator or sub-investigator in multiple clinical trials in the field of viral hepatitis that have been published in international journals. She is an active member of national and international scientific societies European (EASL, AEEH) and has been the Secretary of the Spanish Association for the Study of the Liver (AEEH). She is also leading the Spanish Registry of patients with HDV infection.