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2009 American Liver Foundation Research Awards

April 2009, ALF announed the winners of its 2009 Research Awards.

2009 Research Awards Announcement

In April 2009, ALF announced the winners of its 2009 Research Awards Program. Fourteen scientists representing eleven medical and research institutions were awarded nearly $1,000,000 to support their research in the areas of alagille syndrome, hepatic cirrhosis and fibrosis, biliary atresia, hepatitis C, liver grafts, polycystic liver disease, hepatic carcinoma and primary biliary cirrhosis.

Since the inception of its Research Awards Program, ALF has provided more than $22 million in funding to nearly 700 award recipients.

ALF is proud to support these research efforts and hopeful that they will bring us closer to finding cures for liver disease.

2009 Research Awards Program
Awards and Awardees

2009 Liver Scholars

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Liver Scholar
Alexander G. Miethke, MD
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH
Regulatory T Cells and the Pathogenesis of Biliary Atresia
Mentor: Jorge A. Bezerra, MD

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Liver Scholar
Ekihiro Seki, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
La Jolla, CA
Innate Immunity Regulates Hepatic Fibrosis
Mentor: David A. Brenner, MD

American Liver Foundation Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Fund for the Cure Liver Scholar
Jochen Mattner, MD
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH
Genetic Susceptibility to Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Mentor: Marsh Wills-Karp, PhD

American Liver Foundation Hepatitis Fund for the Cure Liver Scholar
George Miller, MD
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY
Dendritic Cell Activation During Liver Inflammation and their Contribution to Hepatic Cirrhosis
Mentor: Alan B. Frey, PhD

2009 Seed Grant

Blowitz Ridgeway Foundation Alagille Syndrome Seed Grant
Binita M. Kamath, BA, MBBChir
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario
A Model to Predict Outcome of Liver Disease in Alagille Syndrome

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Irwin M. Arias, MD Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Jinhan He, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
Pittsburgh, PA
The Hepatoprotective Role of the LXR in APAP Toxicity
Mentor: Wen Xie, MD, PhD

Roger L. Jenkins, MD Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Tung G. Phan, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
High-throughput Genetic Analysis of Hepatitis C Virus
Mentor: Brett Lindenbach, PhD

Herman Lopata Memorial Hepatitis Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Hadas Dvory-Sobol, PhD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Inhibition of HCV Infection by Stitched AH Peptides
Mentor: Jeffrey S. Glenn, MD, PhD

Thomas F. Nealon, III Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Honoring Zachery Rue
Raghavan Chinnadurai, PhD
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
The Role of Hepatic Stellate Cell as an Antigen Presenting Cell in the Liver Immunity During Viral Infection
Mentor: Arash Grakoui, PhD

Hans Popper Memorial Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Mayura Desai, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
Role of HCV NS Proteins in Intra-hepatic Innate Immune-modulation
Mentor: Jiaren Sun, MD, PhD

Thomas E. Starzl, MD Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, MD, PhD
The General Hospital Corp/Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Liver Grafts Engineering with Decellularized Native Matrices
Mentor: Martin L. Yarmush, MD, PhD

Dean Thiel Memorial Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Gabriele Fuchs, PhD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Modulation of Hepatitis C Virus Gene Expression by mircoRNAs That Target the Viral Coding Region
Mentor: Peter Sarnow, PhD

Charles Trey, MD Memorial Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Zhongwei Cao, PhD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Atorvastatin: a Potentially Novel Agent for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Mentor: Dan Felsher, MD, PhD

Alexander M. White, III Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Kari Chamber, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
The Role of PGC-1 Proteins in Hepatic Energy Metabolism
Mentor: Brian N. Finck, PhD

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