title: Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
text: # Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
  
  28°30′25″N 77°09′58″E﻿ / ﻿28.5068854°N 77.1659994°E﻿ / 28.5068854; 77.1659994 The Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) is a mono-superspeciality hospital for liver and biliary diseases located at New Delhi, India. It has been established by the Government of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi as an autonomous Institute, under the Societies Registration Act - 1860, at New Delhi with Shiv Kumar Sarin as its founding director. ILBS is a teaching hospital and has been given the status of Deemed University by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. ILBS has been created by the Government of Delhi to make it a dedicated international center of excellence for the diagnosis and management of liver and biliary diseases and to provide advanced training and research in the field of Hepato-biliary Sciences.
  
  ## History
  
  The foundation stone of ILBS was laid in 2003. The first phase of ILBS was built by the Public Works Department (PWD). The first phase was completed in 2009. The formal inauguration of the hospital took place on 14 January 2010 by the Chief Minister of Delhi, Mrs. Shiela Dixit.
  
  ## Specialties
  
  ILBS is an education which is focused on Liver and Biliary Sciences, however, Nephrology an important sister branch of the hospital. The various other specialties provided by the hospital are support based Oncology, and Cardiology, along with other liver related specialties like Pediatric Hepatology, Pulmonary Medicine, Renal Transplant, Urology and Radiology. In the coronavirus pandemic, the institute was the pioneer in starting convalescent plasma therapy for treating serious coronavirus patients in Delhi under the supervision of Dr Sarin.
  
  ## Rankings
  
  Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences ranked 11th among medical colleges in India in 2020 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework medical ranking for 2020.
  
  