The Yale Liver Center

The Yale Liver Center is one of 16 NIH-funded Digestive Diseases Research Centers, and one of only 4 that focus on the Liver. It recently celebrated its 25th anniversairy when directorship changed from James L. Boyer, MD, to Michael H. Nathanson, MD, PhD. The Yale Liver Center supports investigation of liver structure, function and disease, spanning a broad range of basic and clinical research. Research support is provided through the Center's Core Facilities, as well as through Pilot Feasibility Projects that are offered annually. Currently, major research themes are cellular and molecular biology of hepatocytes, membrane transport mechanisms in the liver, hepatic metabolism, splanchnic hemodynamics, and clinical studies of various liver diseases. Approximately 40 independent principal investigators are members of the Center, which involves 13 departments at Yale, including Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology, Pharmacology, Cell Biology, Epidemiology, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Human Genetics, Immunobiology, Comparative Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Surgery. The Liver Center also supports weekly research seminars (on Tuesday afternoons) and clinical lectures (on Friday afternoons), in conjunction with the Digestive Diseases Section of the Department of Internal Medicine.

Director

Michael H. Nathanson, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Liver Center

Announcements

Annual Submission of Pilot Projects

the NIH P30 Liver Center grant provides for the annual submission of pilot projects, the purposes of which are to fund new initiatives. more...

Special Events

24th Annual Klatskin Lecture Series
Wed, Mar 24, 5pm
Fitkin Amphitheatre
Harvey J. Alter, MD, MACP
Chief, Infectious Disease Section
Department of Transfusion Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

Seminars

Liver Center

Tue Feb 2, 5pm, TAC S-247
Martin Yarmush
Harvard
"Hepatic Tissue Engineering: Development of Critical Technologies"

Tue Mar 2, 5pm, TAC S-247
Brett Lindenbach
Yale University
"Deconstructing the process of hepatitis C virus assembly"

For the complete Liver Center Seminar series schedule, please click here.

Digestive Diseases

Tue Feb 9, 5pm, TAC S-247
John Birk, MD
UConn
"Imaging in Endoscopy: Any New Views?"

Fri Feb 12, 1pm, TAC S-247
Mayra Sanchez, MD
Yale University
"Management of Rectal Cancer"

Tue Feb 16, 5pm, TAC S-247
Wasif Saif, MD
Yale University
"TBA"

For the complete Digestive Diseases Seminar series schedule, please click here.