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2007 Research Awards Announcement

In March 2007, ALF announced the winners of its 2007 Research Awards. Sixteen scientists representing 12 medical and research institutions were awarded more than $1.2 million to support their research in the areas of autoimmune hepatitis, biliary atresia, cirrhosis, cholestatic liver disease, chronic liver inflammation, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, liver fibrosis, liver regeneration, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and primary biliary cirrhosis.

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


2007 Research Awardees

Liver Scholar Awards - $225,000

  • Jorge Allina, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    Project Title: Progression of Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Air Pollution
    Topic: NAFLD
  • Ayman A Koteish, MD, Johns Hopkins University
    Project Title: Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition: its Role in Hepatic Fibrogenesis
    Topic: Cogential Hepatic Fibrosis, Cirrhosis
  • Ping Lam, PhD, Yale University
    Project Title: Molecular Determinants Controlling Liver Bile Salt Export Pimp (BSEP/ABCB11) Trafficking and Function
    Topic: Cholestatic Liver Disease

Hep C Liver Scholar Special Research Initiative - $225,000

  • Glenn C. Randall, PhD, The University of Chicago
    Project Title: USP18 as a target to improve interferon therapy of HCV
    Topic: Hepatitis C

PBC Seed Grant Special Research Initiative - $200,000

  • Shi-Ying Cai, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine
    Project Title: Ursodeoxycholic Acid and Retinoic Acid Combinational Treatment for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
    Topic: PBC

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - $12,500

  • Samuele De Minicis, MD, Columbia University
    Project Title:Role of Phagocytic and Non-phagocytic NADPH Oxidase in Hepatic Fibrogenesis
    Topic: Liver Fibrosis and NADPH
  • Christian Klotz, PhD, New York University, School of Medicine
    Project Title: Modulation of Kupffer Cell Function by Malaria Sporozoites
    Topic: Malaria
  • Hui Li, PhD, University of Washington, School of Medicine
    Project Title: Mononuclear Cells in HCV Infected and HCV/HIV Coinfected Patients
    Topic: Hepatitis C
  • Pallavi B Limaye, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
    Project Title: Role of HGF and EGF Mediated Signaling in Transdifferentiation of Hepatocytes into Biliary Epithelium
    Topic: Cholestatic Liver Disease
  • Marta Martinez-Vincente, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Marion Bessin Liver Center
    Project Title: Role of Iysosomal m TOR in Regulation of Liver Autophagy
    Topic: Liver Carcinoma and Aging
  • Alexander G. Miethke, MD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Project Title: The Role of Regulatory T Cells in the Pathogenesis of Experimental Biliary Atresia
    Topic: Biliary Atresia
  • Philippa H. Newell, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    Project Title: Targeting the Canonical WNT Pathway In Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Effect Of Small Molecule ICG-001 In HCC Cell Lines And In Nude Mouse Xenografts
    Topic: Hepatitis C
  • Christoph H. Oesterreicher, MD, Columbia University
    Project Title: Role of ACE2 and its Substrates in Liver Injury and Fibrogenesis
    Topic: Liver Fibrosis
  • Alexander Weymann, MD, Washington University
    Project Title: Functional Analyses of PPAR Gamma Signaling During Liver Regeneration
    Topic: Liver Regeneration
  • Lauren A. .Zenewicz, PhD, Yale University
    Project Title: IL-22-mediated Protection to T Cell-mediated Inflammation in the Liver
    Topic: Chronic Liver Inflammation, Fibrosis, and Hepatitis B
  • Jing Wang, PhD, Dartmouth Medical School
    Project Title: Isolation and Analysis of Liver Antigen-specific T Helper Cell Clones in a Mouse Model of Autoimmune Hepatitis
    Topic: Autoimmune Hepatitis

For more information about research awards call 1-800-Go-Liver today.

Page updated: March 14th, 2007