Contact information
Emma Culver
BSc (Hons), MBChB, MRCP, DPhil
Consultant Hepatologist & Senior Lecturer in Gastroenterology & Hepatology, JR Hospital, Oxford.
- Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Emma Culver is a Consultant Hepatologist and Senior Lecturer at the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, with an interest in immune mediated liver diseases including IgG4-related disease, autoimmune hepatitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and primary biliary cholangitis.
She set up and co-ordinated the IgG4-RD Study in Oxford during her Academic Clinical Fellowship (2010) and Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellowship (DPhil 2011-2015). Her PhD work focussed on the natural history and immunological drivers of IgG4-RD. Her NIHR BRC Oxford Clinical Lectureship (2018-) centred on the fibrotic mechanisms of this disease. She runs the Oxford Autoimmune Liver Disease service with specialist IgG4, PSC and autoimmune liver clinics, and runs a regional autoimmune liver disease MDT, and a national Oxford-London IgG4 MDT.
She is Chair of UK IgG4 and on the Steering Committee for UK PSC, and a member of the International IgG4-RD, PSC and AIH Study Groups.
Recent publications
Optimising Primary thErapy in pRimAry biliary cholangitis (OPERA): protocol for a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of enhanced primary therapy with obeticholic acid.
Journal article
Dunn S. et al, (2026), BMJ open, 16
Efficacy and Safety of Obexelimab to Treat IgG4-Related Disease: Protocol for a Global, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.
Journal article
Culver EL. et al, (2026), Rheumatology and therapy
The ethics of unlicensed therapy use in primary biliary cholangitis: a counter view.
Journal article
Jones DEJ. et al, (2026), Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology
Pruritus is common in primary sclerosing cholangitis, persists over time, and its intensity is associated with disease severity: a multicentre, prospective observational study.
Journal article
Hussain N. et al, (2025), Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)
Adherence to United European Gastroenterology Guidelines on Diagnosis and Therapy of Immunoglobulin-G4-Related Digestive Disease.
Journal article
Vujasinovic M. et al, (2025), United European gastroenterology journal, 13, 1583 - 1592
