Liver Center Annual Symposium
Friday, April 24, 2026
8:30 am - 2:30 pm
Millberry Union Conference Room, UCSF
Program
8:30 a.m. — Breakfast
9:00 a.m. — Welcome
Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD
Director, UCSF Liver Center
9:10 a.m. — Keynote Presentation
Introduction by Jennifer Y. Chen, MD
Andrew Grimm, MD, PhD
Vice President of Global Clinical Development, Ultragenyx
Liver-Directed AAV Gene Therapy for Inborn Errors of Metabolism: Clinical Development Challenges and Opportunities
9:55 a.m. — Pilot and Feasibility Grant Awardee Presentations
Moderated by Jackie Maher, MD
Chris Hsiung, MD, PhD
CRISPR Screens to Discover Pro-Fibrogenic Enhancers in Hepatic Stellate Cells
10:15 a.m. — Jillian Jespersen, PhD
Mechanism of Failed Hepatic Immune Memory During Chronic Hepatitis B
10:35 a.m. — Marisa Medina, PhD
Use of Partitioned Polygenic Risk in iPSC-Hepatocytes to Study MASLD Progression and Treatment
10:55 a.m. — Break
11:15 a.m. — Keynote Presentation
Introduction by Jennifer Y. Chen, MD
Anders M. Naar, PhD
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Precision RNA Medicine and Multi-Functional Small-Molecule Therapeutic Approaches to Metabolic Disease Management
12:00 p.m. — Lunch
12:45 p.m. — Breakout Sessions with Abstract Presentations
2:30 p.m. — Closing
