Fostering innovation and
collaboration in liver research
The UCSF Liver Center is a consortium of over 70 researchers who share a common interest in liver biology and disease. The purpose of the Center is to foster excellence and scientific collaboration among its members and to recruit new investigators to the field of hepatology. To achieve this goal, the Center provides research support services and a community platform for exchange of ideas. The UCSF Liver Center is proud of its record of integrating bench science with clinical investigation in support of its mission to understand and cure human liver diseases.
Director's Welcome
For a brief introduction to the Center and welcome to the website, click here.
Announcements
Liver Center Special Guest Speaker:
Ivana De Domenico, PhD
University of Utah
"Regulation and malregulation of iron homeostasis"
Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 AM
S-214, Parnassus Campus
For a complete list of guest speakers for 2011-2012, click here.
Selected Member Publications from the weeks of 12/26/11 and 01/02/12
Nijagal A, Fleck S, Hills NK, Feng S, Tang Q, Kang SM, Rosenthal P, Mackenzie TC. Decreased Risk of Graft Failure with Maternal Liver Transplantation in Patients with Biliary Atresia. Am J Transplant 2011 Dec 30. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed
Nguyen KD, Qiu Y, Cui X, Goh YP, Mwangi J, David T, Mukundan L, Brombacher F, Locksley RM, Chawla A. Alternatively activated macrophages produce catecholamines to sustain adaptive thermogenesis. Nature 2011 Nov 20;480(7375):104-8. PubMed
More articles from 12/26/11 and 01/02/2012...
For a PubMed listing of all Center-related member publications by year, use these links: 2010, 2011, 2012
Core Facilities
Calendar of Events
Membership
Learn more about the benefits of Center membership.
Online Newsletter
The semi-annual Liver Center Newsletter (Sept 2011), along with an archive of prior newsletters, is available here.
Acknowledge the Liver Center in your publications
Instructions for acknowledging the Center can be found here.