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1 of 17 American Liver Foundation Research Award Recipients 1980-2011 Created December 2004 Rev. 5/2011 Year Type of Award Amount of Award Name of Award Recipient Institution at time of award State Title of Funded Project Topic1 Mentor Honoree Funding 2011 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Donghun Shin, PhD University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Mechanisms Regulating Early Liver Development: Liver Specification and Hepatic Competence Investigate mechanisms of how Wnt and Fgf signlaing regulate liver specification and hepatic competence, respectively, and characterize a novel zebrafish liver mutant. Satdarshan P. Singh Monga, MD AASLD/ALF 2011 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Pranavkumar, Mpharm, PhD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio Activation of complement system regulates epithelial injury and obstruction in biliary atresia Innate and adaptive immune systems in biliary atresia Jorge Bezerra, MD AASLD/ALF 2011 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Jessical Wen, MD The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Mechanisms of Liver Fibrosis in Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis Portal Fibroblast and Cholangiocyte Interaction in ARPKD associated Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis Rebecca Wells, MD AASLD/ALF 2011 ALF Liver Scholar 225,000 Romina Fiorotto, PhD Yale University Connecticut Dysregulation of TLR4-dependent epithelial innate immunity in cystic fibrosis cholangiopathy Cystic Fibrosis related liver disease, inflammation, Toll like Receptor 4, Src, miR-Let-7a Mario Strazzabosco, MD, Phd American Liver Foundation 2011 ALF Liver Scholar 225,000 Eek Joong Park, PhD University of California, San Diego California Contribution of mTOR and autophagy signaling to obesity-promoted hepatocarcinogenesis Liver steatosis, Non-alcoholic liver disease, Liver fibrosis, Liver cancer David Brenner, MD American Liver Foundation 2011 PSC Seed Grant 100,000 Bertus Eksteen, PhD University of Calgary Canada Role of Glypican-6 in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Genetic inherited mediators of inflammation that predispose to Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis No Mentor American Liver Foundation 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Antonio Sorrentino Unviersity of California, San Francisco California Discovery and pre-clinical development of microRNA therapeutics targeting liver cancer. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of liver cancer tumorigenesis. Andrei Goga, MD, PhD Charles Trey, MD Memorial 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Selena Sagan Stanford University California Investigating a protective role for miR-122 in the life cycle of Hepatitis C virus Hepatitis C virus, Virology, RNA Biology, Molecular Biology Peter Sarnow, Phd Herman Lopata Memorial 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Tomonori Aoyama University of California, San Diego California Regulation of liver macrophages in liver fibrogenesis The interaction between the characterization and polalization of macrophages and liver fibrosis David Brenner, MD Hans Popper Memorial 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 David Assis Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut The role of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) in Autoimmune Hepatitis Exploration of MIF as a biomarker for Autoimmune Hepatitis James Boyer, MD Sunflowers for Holli Autoimmune Hepatitis 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Frank DiPaola Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio The role of peribiliary glands in development and repair of extrahepatic bile ducts The role of peribiliary glands in development and repair of extrahepatic bile ducts Jorge Bezerra, MD Alexander M. White, III 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Michel Fausther University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Arkansas Dysregulation of CD73/ecto-5’-nucleotidase in liver fibrosis Liver fibrosis, hepatic stellate cell, myofibroblast, activation, differentiation, adenosine, ecto-5’-nucleotidase/CD73 Jonathan Dranoff, MD Roger L. Jenkins, MD 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Andrew Cox Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts Role of nitric oxide signaling in liver development and regeneration in zebrafish Chemical Genetics, Developmental Biology Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD Irwin, M. Arias, MD 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Baran Ersoy Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts Regulation of Hepatic Glucose Homeostasis by Phosphatidylcholine- Transfer Protein (PC-TP) and Thioesterase Superfamily Member 2 (Them2) To better understand hepatic glucose homeostasis and non- alcoholic fatty liver disease David Brenner, MD Congressman John Joseph Moakley 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Hisashi Kosaka Boston University School of Medicine Massachusetts Mechanisms of Hepatic Adhesion Formation Hepatectomy, Adhesions, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Metastatic Colorectal Cancer James Becker, MD Tim Sylvia Memorial General Research Fund 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Moritz Schmelzle Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Massachusetts Platelet activation triggered by CD39L1/NTPDase2 facilitates stem cell mediated liver regeneration Liver regeneration Simon Robson, MD, PhD, FRCP Thomas E. Starzl, MD 2010 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Takeshi Saito, MD, PhD University of Washington, Department of Immunology Washington Identification of a novel host innate immune factor that regulates HCV Michael J. Gale, PhD AASLD/ALF 2010 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Udayan Apte, PhD University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas Wnt/β-catenin Signaling in Liver Regeneration following Acetaminophen- induced Acute Liver failure Hartmut Jaeschke, PhD AASLD/ALF 2010 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Amal Dutta, MD, PhD UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics Texas Regulation of biliary secretion and bile formation by the Ca2+-activated CI- channel TMEM16A Andrew P. Feranchak, MD AASLD/ALF 2010 Liver Scholar 225,000 Kari Chambers, PhD Washington University School of Medicine Missouri PGC-1β- mediated control of hepatic fatty acid metabolism through ChREBP Brian N. Finck, Ph.D. American Liver Foundation 2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Prajakta Palkar, PhD Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania Targeting PPARβ/δ to Inhibit Hepatic Inflammation Jeffery M. Peters, PhD Roger L. Jenkins, MD 2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Michael Gelman, MD, PhD Stanford University California Development of novel host-factor-based antivirals for hepatitis C Jeffrey S. Glenn, MD, PhD Herman Lopata Memorial 2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Gregory Camus, PhD Gladstone Institutes California Role of Lipid Droplets in Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Liver Damage Melanie Ott, MD, PhD Hans Popper Memorial 2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Antonino Castellaneta, MD, PhD University of Pittsburgh Medical School Pennsylvania NOD2 signaling and regulation of liver dendritic cell tolerogenicity Angus W. Thomson, PhD, DSc Sunflowers for Holli Autoimmune Hepatitis

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Page 1: Master List of Researchers

1 of 17American Liver Foundation Research Award Recipients

1980-2011

Created December 2004

Rev. 5/2011

Year Type of Award

Amount

of Award Name of Award Recipient Institution at time of award State Title of Funded Project Topic1 Mentor Honoree Funding

2011 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Donghun Shin, PhD University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Mechanisms Regulating Early Liver Development: Liver Specification and

Hepatic Competence

Investigate mechanisms of how

Wnt and Fgf signlaing regulate liver

specification and hepatic

competence, respectively, and

characterize a novel zebrafish liver

mutant.

Satdarshan P. Singh

Monga, MD AASLD/ALF

2011 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Pranavkumar, Mpharm, PhD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio

Activation of complement system regulates epithelial injury and

obstruction in biliary atresia

Innate and adaptive immune

systems in biliary atresia Jorge Bezerra, MD AASLD/ALF

2011 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Jessical Wen, MD The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Mechanisms of Liver Fibrosis in Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis

Portal Fibroblast and Cholangiocyte

Interaction in ARPKD associated

Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis Rebecca Wells, MD AASLD/ALF

2011 ALF Liver Scholar 225,000 Romina Fiorotto, PhD Yale University Connecticut

Dysregulation of TLR4-dependent epithelial innate immunity in cystic

fibrosis cholangiopathy

Cystic Fibrosis related liver disease,

inflammation, Toll like Receptor 4,

Src, miR-Let-7a

Mario Strazzabosco, MD,

Phd

American Liver

Foundation

2011 ALF Liver Scholar 225,000 Eek Joong Park, PhD University of California, San Diego California

Contribution of mTOR and autophagy signaling to obesity-promoted

hepatocarcinogenesis

Liver steatosis, Non-alcoholic liver

disease, Liver fibrosis, Liver cancer David Brenner, MD

American Liver

Foundation

2011 PSC Seed Grant 100,000 Bertus Eksteen, PhD University of Calgary Canada Role of Glypican-6 in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Genetic inherited mediators of

inflammation that predispose to

Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis No Mentor

American Liver

Foundation

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Antonio Sorrentino Unviersity of California, San Francisco California

Discovery and pre-clinical development of microRNA therapeutics

targeting liver cancer.

Molecular and cellular mechanisms

of liver cancer tumorigenesis. Andrei Goga, MD, PhD

Charles Trey, MD

Memorial

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Selena Sagan Stanford University California

Investigating a protective role for miR-122 in the life cycle of Hepatitis C

virus

Hepatitis C virus, Virology, RNA

Biology, Molecular Biology Peter Sarnow, Phd

Herman Lopata

Memorial

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Tomonori Aoyama University of California, San Diego California Regulation of liver macrophages in liver fibrogenesis

The interaction between the

characterization and polalization of

macrophages and liver fibrosis David Brenner, MD

Hans Popper

Memorial

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 David Assis Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

The role of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) in Autoimmune

Hepatitis

Exploration of MIF as a biomarker

for Autoimmune Hepatitis James Boyer, MD

Sunflowers for Holli

Autoimmune

Hepatitis

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Frank DiPaola Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio

The role of peribiliary glands in development and repair of extrahepatic

bile ducts

The role of peribiliary glands in

development and repair of

extrahepatic bile ducts Jorge Bezerra, MD

Alexander M.

White, III

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Michel Fausther University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Arkansas Dysregulation of CD73/ecto-5’-nucleotidase in liver fibrosis

Liver fibrosis, hepatic stellate cell,

myofibroblast, activation,

differentiation, adenosine,

ecto-5’-nucleotidase/CD73 Jonathan Dranoff, MD

Roger L. Jenkins,

MD

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Andrew Cox Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts

Role of nitric oxide signaling in liver development and regeneration in

zebrafish

Chemical Genetics, Developmental

Biology

Wolfram Goessling, MD,

PhD Irwin, M. Arias, MD

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Baran Ersoy Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts

Regulation of Hepatic Glucose Homeostasis by Phosphatidylcholine-

Transfer Protein (PC-TP) and

Thioesterase Superfamily Member 2 (Them2)

To better understand hepatic

glucose homeostasis and non-

alcoholic fatty liver disease David Brenner, MD

Congressman John

Joseph Moakley

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Hisashi Kosaka Boston University School of Medicine Massachusetts Mechanisms of Hepatic Adhesion Formation

Hepatectomy, Adhesions,

Hepatocellular Carcinoma,

Metastatic Colorectal Cancer James Becker, MD

Tim Sylvia

Memorial

General Research

Fund

2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Moritz Schmelzle Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Massachusetts

Platelet activation triggered by CD39L1/NTPDase2 facilitates stem cell

mediated liver regeneration Liver regeneration

Simon Robson, MD, PhD,

FRCP

Thomas E. Starzl,

MD

2010 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Takeshi Saito, MD, PhD University of Washington, Department of Immunology Washington Identification of a novel host innate immune factor that regulates HCV Michael J. Gale, PhD AASLD/ALF

2010 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Udayan Apte, PhD University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas

Wnt/β-catenin Signaling in Liver Regeneration following Acetaminophen-

induced Acute Liver failure

Hartmut Jaeschke, PhD AASLD/ALF

2010 ALF/AASLD Liver Scholar 225,000 Amal Dutta, MD, PhD UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics Texas

Regulation of biliary secretion and bile formation by the Ca2+-activated CI-

channel TMEM16A Andrew P. Feranchak,

MD AASLD/ALF

2010 Liver Scholar 225,000 Kari Chambers, PhD Washington University School of Medicine Missouri

PGC-1β- mediated control of hepatic fatty acid metabolism through

ChREBP

Brian N. Finck, Ph.D. American Liver

Foundation

2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Prajakta Palkar, PhD Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania Targeting PPARβ/δ to Inhibit Hepatic Inflammation Jeffery M. Peters, PhD

Roger L. Jenkins,

MD

2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Michael Gelman, MD, PhD Stanford University California Development of novel host-factor-based antivirals for hepatitis C Jeffrey S. Glenn, MD, PhD

Herman Lopata

Memorial

2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Gregory Camus, PhD Gladstone Institutes California

Role of Lipid Droplets in Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Liver Damage

Melanie Ott, MD, PhD

Hans Popper

Memorial

2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Antonino Castellaneta, MD, PhD University of Pittsburgh Medical School Pennsylvania

NOD2 signaling and regulation of liver dendritic cell tolerogenicity Angus W. Thomson, PhD,

DSc

Sunflowers for Holli

Autoimmune

Hepatitis

Page 2: Master List of Researchers

2 of 17American Liver Foundation Research Award Recipients

1980-2011

Created December 2004

Rev. 5/2011

Year Type of Award

Amount

of Award Name of Award Recipient Institution at time of award State Title of Funded Project Topic1 Mentor Honoree Funding

2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Dian Chiang, MD, MPH Cleveland Clinic Ohio

Adenosine signaling pathway in the regulation of hepatic angiogenesis and

fibrogenesis Laura Nagy, PhD

Dean Thiel

Memorial

2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Jean-Philippe Pradere, PhD Columbia University New York

Analysis of cell-specific TGFß effects in hepatic fibrogenesis and

carcinogenesis

Robert Schwabe, MD

Charles Trey, MD

Memorial

2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Andrew Chu, MD Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Epithelial-To-Mesenchymal Transition in Biliary Fibrosis Rebecca G. Wells, MD

Alexander M.

White, III

2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 12,500 Sanjiv Harpavat, MD, PhD Baylor College of Medicine Texas Role of Probiotics in Bile Acid – TGR5/FXR Signaling

James Versalovic, MD,

PhD Irwin M. Arias, MD

2009 Liver Scholar AASLD 225,000 Ekihiro Seki, MD, PhD University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine California Innate Immunity Regulates Hepatic Fibrosis David A. Brenner, MD

2009 Liver Scholar AASLD 225,000 Alexander G. Miethke, MD Children’s Hospital Medical Center Ohio Regulatory T Cells and the Pathogenesis of Biliary Atresia Jorge A. Bezerra, MD

2009 Liver Scholar 150,000 George Miller, MD New York University School of Medicine New York

Dendritic Cell Activation During Liver Inflammation and their Contribution

to Hepatic Cirrhosis

2009 Liver Scholar 150,000 Jochen Mattner, MD Children’s Hospital Medical Center Ohio Genetic Susceptibility to Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Marsh Wills-Karp, PhD

2009 Seed Grant 100,000 Binita M. Kamath, BA, MBBChir MRCP MTR The Hospital for Sick Children Canada A Model to Predict Outcome of Liver Disease in Alagille Syndrome

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Tung G. Phan, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut High-throughput Genetic Analysis of Hepatitis C Virus Brett Lindenbach, PhD

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Kari Chambers, PhD Washington University School of Medicine Washington The Role of PGC-1 Proteins in Hepatic Energy Metabolism Brian N. Finck, PhD

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Mayura Desai, PhD University of Texas Medical Branch Texas Role of HCV NS Proteins in Intra-hepatic Innate Immune-modulation Jiaren Sun, MD, PhD

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Zhongwei Cao, PhD Stanford University California

Atorvastatin: a Potentially Novel Agent for the Treatment of

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Dan Felsher, MD, PhD

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Gabriele Fuchs Stanford University California

Modulation of Hepatitis C Virus Gene Expression by mircoRNAs That

Target the Viral Coding Region Peter Sarnow, PhD

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Hadas Dvory-Sobol, PhD Stanford University California Inhibition of HCV Infection by Stitched AH Peptides Jeffrey S. Glenn, MD, PhD

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Malte Renz, MD NICHD-NIH Maryland Asialoglycoprotein receptor, live cell imaging, kinetic analyses

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Raghavan Chinnadurai, PhD Emory University Georgia

The Role of Hepatic Stellate Cell as an Antigen Presenting Cell in the Liver

Immunity During Viral Infection Arash Grakoui, PhD

2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, MD, PhD The General Hospital Corp/Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Liver Grafts Engineering with Decellularized Native Matrices

Martin L. Yarmush, MD,

PhD

2008 Liver Scholar 225,000 Songling Liu, MD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Texas

Post-translational Regulation of Sinisoidal Endothelial Cell eNOS by the

GPCR Interacting Protein GIT 1

2008 Liver Scholar 225,000 Lee F. Peng, MD, PhD RELINQUISHED AWARD The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts

Discovery, Design and Characterization of Modulators of Hepatitis C Virus

Replication

2008 Special Research Initiatives 200,000 Joseph J. Palermo, Jr., MD, PhD Washington University Washington

Role of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection in Immune Mediated

Cholangiopathy

2008 Special Research Initiatives 200,000 Joshua R. Friedman Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Micro RNA in Biliary Atresia

2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Tina L. Sumpter, MS, PhD University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Molecular Crosstalk and the Regulation of Tolerance in Liver Dendritic

Cells

2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Xinqin Kang, PhD University of Louisville Kentucky Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4 and Lipid Export in Alcoholic Liver Disease

2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Xiaosong Jiang, MD University of California Davis Health System California The Role of Hepatic Stellate Cell Proliferation in Liver Fibrognesis

2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Benoit C. Callendret, D.V.M., PhD The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus Ohio Ohio Immunity Against Hepatitis C Virus Upon Superinfection

2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Nam-Joon Cho, PhD Stanford University California Hepatitis C Virus Replication in Optimized Hydrogel-based Hepatic Tissues

2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Sergio A. Gradilone, PhD Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Minnesota

TRPV4 as a Potential Target to Reduce the Hyperproliferative Phenotype

of Cholangiocytes in Polycystic Liver Disease

2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Johannes Kluwe, MD Columbia University Medical Center New York

Role of NK-kB on the Crosstalk Between Kupffer Cells and Hepatic Stellate

Cells

2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Ajay Kumar Jain, MD Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital Texas

Role of Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) and Fibroblast Growth Factor 19

(FGF19) In Parenteral Nutrition Associated Liver Disease (PNALD)

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Talia Hoffstein, B.Sc., MD Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT Connecticut

2007 Seed Grant 200,000 Shi-Ying Cai, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

Ursodeoxycholic Acid and Retinoic Acid Combinational Treatment for

Primary Biliary Cirrhosis PBC n/a

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Lauren A. Zenewicz, PhD Yale University Connecticut IL-22-mediated Protection to T Cell-mediated Inflammation in the Liver

chronic liver inflammation, fibrosis,

hep B virus Richard A. Flavell, PhD

2007 Liver Scholars 225,000 Ping P. Lam, PhD Yale University Connecticut

Molecular Determinants Controlling Liver Bile Salt Export Pimp

(BSEP/ABCB11) Trafficking and Function cholestatic liver disease James L. Boyer, MD

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Chanda K. Ho, MD Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes Jewish Hospital Missouri

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Alexander Weymann, MD Washington University Washington Functional Analyses of PPAR Gamma Signaling During Liver Regeneration liver regeneration David Rudnick, MD, PhD

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Hui Li, PhD University of Washington, School of Medicine Washington Mononuclear Cells in HCV Infected and HCV/HIV Coinfected Patients HCV David Gretch, PhD, MD

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Robert Rahimi, MD, MS University of Virginia, VA Virginia

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Pallavi B Limaye, PhD University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pennsylvania

Role of HGF and EGF Mediated Signaling in Transdifferentiation of

Hepatocytes into Biliary Epithelium cholestatic liver disease

George Michalopoulos,

MD

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Eric Scott Orman, MD University of Michigan, MI Michigan

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Gregory Albert Weber, MD University of Minnesota, MN Minnesota

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Reena Salgia, MD University of Michigan/University of Michigan Hospitals, MI Michigan

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Amit Kumar Mathur, MD University of Michigan Health System, MI Michigan

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Ariana Wallack, B.A., MD University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center, CO Colorado

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3 of 17American Liver Foundation Research Award Recipients

1980-2011

Created December 2004

Rev. 5/2011

Year Type of Award

Amount

of Award Name of Award Recipient Institution at time of award State Title of Funded Project Topic1 Mentor Honoree Funding

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Archita A. Desai, MD University of Chicago Hospitals, IL Illinois

2007 Special Research Initiatives 225,000 Glenn C. Randall, PhD The University of Chicago Illinois Identification of Cellular Cofactors of Hepatitis Virus Infection Hep C Bernard Roizman, PhD

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Alisha C. Laborico, MD University of California, San Francisco, CA California

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Bijal Surti, MD University of California Los Angeles (Center for Health Sciences) California

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Kumar Krishnan, MD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX Texas

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Mazen Noureddin, MD University of Southern California, CA California

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Christian Klotz, PhD-RELINQUISHED New York University, School of Medicine New York Modulation of Kupffer Cell Function by Malaria Sporozoites malaria Ute Frevert, PhD, DVM

2007 Liver Scholars 225,000 Jorge Allina, MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York Progression of Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Air Pollution NAFLD Scott Friedman, MD

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Philippa H Newell, MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York

Targeting the Canonical WNT Pathway In Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The

Effect Of Small Molecule ICG-001 In HCC Cell Lines And In Nude Mouse

Xenografts HCV Scott Friedman, MD

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Robert C. Huebert, MD Mayo Clinic, MN Minnesota

2007 Liver Scholars 225,000 Ayman A Koteish, MD Johns Hopkins University MAryland Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition: its Role in Hepatic Fibrogenesis cogential hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis Esteban Mezey, MD

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Marta Martinez-Vincente, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Marion Bessin Liver Center New York Role of Iysosomal m TOR in Regulation of Liver Autophagy liver carcinoma and aging

Ana Maria Cuervo, MD,

PhD

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Goutham Narla, MD, PhD The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY New York

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Lily Dara, MD Griffin Hospital, CT Connecticut

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Wissam Bleibel, MD Caritas Carney Hospital, MA Massachusetts

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Christoph H Oesterreicher, MD Columbia University New York Role of ACE2 and its Substrates in Liver Injury and Fibrogenesis liver fibrosis David Brenner, MD

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Alexander G Miethke, MD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio

The Role of Regulatory T Cells in the Pathogenesis of Experimental Biliary

Atresia biliary atresia Jorge A. Bezerra, MD

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Edward Williams Holt, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, MA Massachusetts

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Samuele De Minicis, MD Columbia University New York

Role of Phagocytic and Non-phagocytic NADPH Oxidase in Hepatic

Fibrogenesis liver fibrosis and NADPH David A. Brenner, MD

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Petros C. Benias, MD Beth Israel Medical Center, NY New York

2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Jing Wang, PhD Dartmouth Medical School New Hampshire

Isolation and Analysis of Liver Antigen-specific T Helper Cell Clones in a

Mouse Model of Autoimmune Hepatitis autoimmune hepatitis

James D. Gorham, MD,

PhD

2007 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Kristina R. Chacko, MD Emory University, GA Georgia

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Vijay Khiani, MD University Hospitals Case Medical Center Ohio

Keith Armitage,

MD/Smruti Mohanty

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Anamika Chaudhuri, MD Yale New Haven Hospital Connecticut Michael Nathanson, MD

2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Ping P. Lam, PhD Yale University Connecticut Cellular and Functional Defects of the Liver Bile Salt Export Pump (ABCB11)

Progressive Familial Intrahepatic

Cholestasis (PFIC-2), Benign

Recurrent Intrahepatic Cholestasis

Type 2 (BRIC-2) and Intrahepatic

Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP) James L. Boyer, MD PBC FFC

2006 Special Research Initiatives 150,000 George, N. Ioannou, B.M.B.Ch, MS University of Washington Washington

Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the MELD Allocation

Era

Liver Transplantation;

Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Robert L. Carithers Jr.,

MD AASLD

2006 Liver Scholar 225,000 Lynette A. Gillis, MD Vanderbilt University Tennessee

Mitochondrial Short-Chain 3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase in

Hyperinsulinism and Hepatic Steatosis NAFLD Arnold W. Strauss, MD AASLD

2006 Liver Scholar 225,000 Margherita F. Melegari, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

Roles of MicroRNAs in Hepadnavirus Replication and

Hepatocarcinogenesis NA Charles E. Rogler, PhD

Vierling Res Fund --

Fertitta

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Gebran Abboud, MD Keck School of Medicine, UCLA California Neil Kaplowitz, MD

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Daniel M. Cornett, MD University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Wisconsin Robert Striker, MD, PhD

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Robert Christopher Harmon, MD/PhD University of Virginia Virginia Stephen Caldwell, MD

2006 Liver Scholar 225,000 Li Wang, PhD The University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas Nuclear Receptor SHP-mediated Regulation of Hepatic Lipid Homeostasis

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

(NAFLD) Curt Hagedorn, MD AASLD

2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Tom P. Theruvath, MD, PhD University of South Carolina South Carolina

The Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

After Fatty Liver Transplantation and its Prevention by Minocycline

Hepatic Failure, Liver

Transplantation, Alcoholic Liver

Disease, Fatty Liver Disease

John J. Lemasters, MD,

PhD Moakley Fund

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Johanna Iturrino Moreda, MD University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine/University Hospital Puerto Rico Ester A. Torres, MD

2006 Seed Grant 100,000 Linda E. Greenbaum, MD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Pennsylvania

Transcriptional Regulation of MicroRNAs During the Hepatic Growth

Response

Hepatocellular Carcinoma,

cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis none

Lopata Fund --

release of

endowment

2006 Special Research Initiatives 200,000 Carlo Selmi, MD, PhD University of California, Davis California Epigenetics of X-Linked Genes in PBC: Does X Mark the Spot? PBC none PBC FFC

2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Udayan M. Apte, PhD University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Role of Wnt/β -catenin in Pathogenesis of Liver Development, Cancer and

Regeneration

Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma,

Acute Liver Failure

Satdarshan P.S. Monga,

MD Arias Fund

2006 Special Research Initiatives 200,000 Cara L. Mack, MD The Children's Hospital, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Colorado Investigation of Pathogenic Autoreactive T-cells in Biliary Atresia Biliary Atresia none Biliary Atresia FFC

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Danielle Brandman, MD UCSF California

D. Montgomery Bissell,

MD

2006 Liver Scholar 225,000 Holger F. Willenbring, MD University of California San Francisco California

Development of In Vivo Cell Fusion into a Therapy for a Wide Range of

Genetic Liver Diseases

Genetic liver diseases that impair

hepatocyte function without

predisposing to cancer such as

urea cycle disorders, Crigler-Najjar

syndrome type 1, glycogen storage

diseases, galactosemia and familial

hypercholesterolemia.

D. Montgomery Bissell,

MD AST/Fund-a-Grant

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4 of 17American Liver Foundation Research Award Recipients

1980-2011

Created December 2004

Rev. 5/2011

Year Type of Award

Amount

of Award Name of Award Recipient Institution at time of award State Title of Funded Project Topic1 Mentor Honoree Funding

2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Ekihiro Seki, MD, PhD Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons New York Role of Toll-like Receptor Signalings in Hepatic Fibrogenesis Liver fibrosis, liver cirrhosis David Brenner, MD General Research

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Andrew James Vardanian, MD UCLA Medical Center California Ronald Busuttil, MD, PhD

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Han-Ming Joseph Lin, MD Univ. of CA, Davis Health System California

Christopher L. Bowlus,

MD

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Jenny Y. Chen, MD Univ. of CA, Davis Health System California

Christopher L. Bowlus,

MD

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Trevor Reichman, MD, PhD The University of Chicago Hospitals Illinois J. Michael Millis, MD

2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Shirit Einav, MD Stanford University California

Translating the Nucleotide-binding Motif of Hepatitis C Virus' NS4B Protein

Into a Novel Antiviral Therapy HCV Jeffrey Glenn, MD, PhD

Sunflowers for Holly

Fund

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Craig A. Munroe, MD Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts

Drs. Hasan Bazari &

Raymond Chung

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 David Wenhan Wan, MD NY PresbyterianHospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center New York Andrew H. Talal, MD

2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Ella H. Sklan, PhD Stanford University California

Characterizing a Protein Partner of Hepatitis C Virus Non-structural Protein

5A and its Effect on Viral Replication HCV, HCC Jeffrey Glenn, MD, PhD Fund-a-Grant

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 J.P. (John Paul) Norvell, MD Northern University Feinberg School of Medicine Illinois Josh Levitsky, MD

2006 Liver Scholar 225,000 Tatiana Kisseleva, MD, PhD Columbia University New York The Role of Fibrocytes in the Pathogenesis of Liver Fibrosis Fibrosis David A. Brenner

Hepatitis FFC --

Hudgens Family

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Ana Carolina Garcia Tuyama, MD Mount Sinai Medical Center New York Mark Babyatsky, MD

2006 Special Research Initiatives 200,000 Joseph A. Odin, MD, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York

Does Vitamin D Supplementation Enhance Immune Function in Primary

Biliary Cirrhosis? PBC none PBC FFC

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Saira Khaderi, MD Cleveland Clinic Foundation Ohio Karin B. Cesario, MD

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Margaret S. Sozio, MD University of Louisville/University of Louisville Hospital Kentucky Craig J. McClain

2006 Seed Grant 100,000 Chihiro Morishima, MD University of Washington Washington NK Cell Function and Liver Fibrosis in HCV/HIV Coinfection

Hepatitis C virus infection and liver

fibrosis progression none

Lopata Fund --

release of

endowment

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Badar Muneer, MD Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL Illinois Smruti R. Mohanty, MD

2006 Special Research Initiatives 150,000 Ravi R. Jhaveri, MD Duke University Medical Center North Carolina

Investigating the Pathogenesis of Steatosis in Hepatitis C Genotype 3

Infection Hepatitis C virus, Steatosis Anna Mae Diehl, MD AASLD

2006 Special Research Initiatives 150,000 Ningling Kang-Decker, PhD Mayo Foundation Minnesota

Mechanism of Nitric Oxide Inhibition of Hepatic Stellate Cell Migration in

Liver Metastasis of Pancreatic Cancer

Liver Tumor, Liver Metastasis of

Pancreatic Cancer Vijay Shah, MD AASLD

2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Keishi Kanno, MD, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts

Phosphatidylcholine Transfer Protein: Regulation of Hepatobiliary Lipid

Metobolism by a START Domain

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

(NAFLD), Cholestatic liver diseases David E. Cohen, MD, PhD PBC FFC

2006 Seed Grant 100,000 Robert F. Schwabe, MD Columbia University New York Endocannabinoids in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Hepatocellular carcinoma, cirrhosis none

New England Run

for Research

2006 Special Research Initiatives 200,000 Jorge A. Bezerra, MD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio Pre-clinical Trial to Block Progression of Duct Obstruction in Biliary Atresia Biliary Atresia none Biliary Atresia FFC

2006 Abstract Prizes 750 Mubeen Jafri, MD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio

a2β1Integrin Down-regulation Reduces Cholangiocyte Susceptibility to

Rotavirus Infection and Mortality in Experimental Biliary Atresia

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Janis M. Stoll, MD University of Chicago/University of Chicago Hospitals Illinois Madelyn Kahana, MD

2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Rajat Singh, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

Regulation of Hepatocyte Steatosis and Cell Death by Chronic Oxidative

stress Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease Mark J. Czaja, MD Jenkins

2006 Abstract Prizes 750 Ekihiro Seki, MD, PhD Columbia University Medical Center New York

TLR4 Signaling Mediates Hepatic Fibrogenesis by Enhancing TGF-beta

Signaling with Downregulating BAMBI in Heptic Stellate Cells

2006 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1500 Krit Kitisin, MD Georgetown University Hospital Washington, DC Lynt Johnson, MD

2005 Liver Scholar 225,000 Chuhan Chung, MD West Haven VA, Yale University Connecticut HCC and Hepatic Stellate Cell Regulation of Anti-anglogenic PEDF Roberto Groszmann, MD.

2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Daniel Rodriguez-Agudo, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Intracellular Lipid Transport and Cholesterol Homeostasis William M. Pandak, MD

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Alyson Fox, MD New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell New York

Michael Schilsky, MD / Ira

Jackson, MD.

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Advitya Malhotra University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston Texas

Steven A. Weinman, MD,

PhD

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Vinay Sundaram, MD University of Virginia Health System Virginia Gerald R. Donovitz, MD

2005 Liver Scholar 225,000 Brian C. Lewis, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School Massachusetts Critical Mediators of Metastasis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Michael Green, MD. PhD.

2005 Liver Scholar 225,000 Wen-Xing Ding, MD. PhD. University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Bci-2 Family Proteins Regulate Autophage-Apoptosis-Necrosis in

Hepatocytes Xiao-Ming Yin, MD. PhD.

2005 Abstract Prizes 750 Cara L. Mack, MD. The Childrens Hospital, University of Colorado School of Medicine Colorado

Adoptive Transfer of Liver T-Cells from Murine Bollary Atresia Results in

Perifuctular Infiltrates in Recipient SCID Mice Suggesting Autoimmune

Mediated Bile Duct Injery

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Muslim Atiq, MD University Hospital of Cincinnati Ohio Guy Neff, MD

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Michael Tjandrawidjaja University of Alberta Canada Winnie WS Wong, MD

2005 Liver Scholar 125,000 Scott Biggins, MD. Univeristy of California San Francisco California

Selection Bias in Retransolantation Durvival Models: The impact of listing

Criteria and Hep C Norah A. Terrault, MD.

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Rupert Abdalian, B.Sc. MD. University Health Network / Toronto Western Hospital Canada Jenny Heathcote

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Michael J. Dougherty MD. Drexel University College of Medecine. St. Christophers Hospital for Children Pennsylvania Kathy Chan, MD

2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Narcissus C. Teoh, PhD University of Washington Missouri DNA repair mechanisms in Hepatocarcinogenesis Nelson Fausto, MD

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Celia Atkinson, MD Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto Canada Simon Ling, MD

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2005 Seed Grant 100,000 Jane Huiru Wang, MD, PhD Childrens Memorial Hospital ? Antigen-driven TGFB+ Regulatory T Cells in HCV Infection

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Christopher D. South MD Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health Ohio Sheryl A. Pfeil

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Jenny Sauk-Mauer, MD University of Chicago Hospital Illinois Helen Te, MD

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Ashwin N. Anathakrishnan Medical College of Wisconsin Wisconsin Kia Saeian, MD

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Nitika Gupta, MD Emory University School of Medecine Georgia Gene Romero

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Jeya Agrwal, MD, MPH. Brigham and Women Hospital Massachusetts

Chinwelke Ukomadu,

MD. PHD.

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Ilan Seth Weisberg, MD, Msc NY Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center New York

Rober Brown Junior, MD,

MPH

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Michael J. Lipp, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center New York Michael Curry, MD

2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 David G. Bowen, PhD. Columbus Children's Research Institute Ohio Hepatitis C Viral Replication and Immunity During Acute Infection

Christopher M. Walker,

PHD

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Rupa Mukherjee, BA MD Yale-New Haven Hospital Connecticut

Michael Nathanson, MD,

PHD

2005 Sheila Sherlock 150,000 Aaron Robert Turkish, MD. Columbia University New York DGAT1 and the DGAT2 Gene Family in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Stephen L. Sturley, PHD.

2005 Sheila Sherlock 150,000 Kathleen M Campbell, MD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio Pharmacogenetics of Post-Transplant Renal Dysfunction William F. Balistreri, MD.

2005 Liver Scholar 225,000 Timothy T. Kuo, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts The Function of FcRn in Liver and the Role of N-Glycans Richard S. Blumberg, MD.

2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Erez F. Scapa, MD. Brigham and Womens Hospital Massachusetts

Role of Phosphatidylcholine Transfer Protein in Hepatic Triglyceride

Metabolism David E. Cohen

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Kavitha Gopal, MD Beth Israel Medical Center New York Albert D. Min

2005 Liver Scholar 225,000 Antonia Follenzi, MD. PhD. Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Mechanisms of Lentival Gene Transfer in Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells Sanjeev Gupta, MA

2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 12,500 Richard J. Aspinall Scripps Research Institute California

Investigating the role of VEGF and Src family kinases in a murine model of

cerebral edema due to acute liver failure Paul J. Pockros, MD.

2005 Abstract Prizes 750 Daniel Emmet, MD The University of Texas Southwester Medical Center Texas

Chromosomal Instability Accelerates Hepatocarcinogenesis in Ku70 DNA

repair defective mice.

2005 Liver Scholar 225,000 Arumugam R. Jayakumar, PhD University of Miami Florida

Intracellular Signaling in Ammonia-Induced Astrocyte Swelling: Potential

Role in Brain Edma in Acute Liver Failure

Michael D. Norenburg,

MD.

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Lynne Do, MD University of of California Davis Medical School California Mark Henderson, MD

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Lei Yuan Lim, MD University of Washington Department of Internal Medecine Washington Kris Kowdley, MD

2005 Resident Scholar Travel Award 1,500 Sarah E. Bork, MD University of Washington Medical Center Missouri Kris Kowdley, MD

2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 28,000 Basuki K. Gunawan, MD University of So. California California Role of JNK in Acetaminophen and Hepatotoxicity Neil Kaplowitz, MD

2004 Liver Scholars 150,000 Venkata Kakulavarapu, PhD University of Miami School of Medicine Florida

Role of Aquaporin-4 in Ammonia-induced Astrocyte Swelling: Implications

in Brain Edema in Fulminant Hepatic Failure

Michael D. Norenberg,

MD

2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Julius Clemence R. Hafalla, PhD New York University School of Medicine New York

Structure/Function Analysis of Genese Involved in Liver Infedtion and

Development of Malaria Parasites and Analysis of Immunological Memory

Elicited by Recombinant Malaria Vaccines Targeted Against Liver State

Parasites

Victor Nussenzweig, MD,

PhD

2004 Abstract Prizes 750 Katrin Panzitt University of Graz, Austria Austria

A Non-protein-coding RNA is a major deregulated gene in hepatocellular

carcinoma and may act as a general modulator of gene expression

2004 Liver Scholars 150,000 Aouizerat Bradley. University of California, SF California Genetic Dissection of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Nathan M. Bass, MD, PhD

2004 Liver Scholars 150,000 Jody Lynn Baron, MD, PhD University of California, SF California

The Role of the Innate & Adaptive Immune System in the Pathogenesis of

Acute & Chronic Hepatitis B-Induced Liver Injury Don Ganem, MD

2004 Liver Scholars 150,000 Natalie J. Torok, MD University of California, Davis California Apoptosis and Liver Fibrogenesis Mark A. Zern, MD

2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Kiran M. Bambha, MD Mayo Clinic and Foundation Minnesota

Genetic Predisposition for Renal Insufficiency Among Long-Term Liver

Transplant Recipients W. Ray Kim, MD

2004 Seed Grant 100,000 Adda Grimberg, MD The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Mechanisms of Growth Failure and Growth Hormone Resistance in Alagille

Syndrome: Role of TACE and Therapy with Zinc Supplementation

2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Amelia Mazzone, PhD Mayo Medical School Minnesota

Hepatocyte Membrane Microdomain; A Role in Regulating Ductal Bile

Secretion Nicholas F.La Russo, MD

2004 Seed Grant 100,000 Konstantinos Lazaridis, MD Mayo Clinic and Foundation Minnesota Genetic Epidemiology of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

2004 Liver Scholars 150,000 Georg M. Lauer, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Immune Control and Immune Failure in Acute HCV Infection Bruce D. Walker, MD

2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Yan Guo, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine MAryland Studies of Wilson Protein in a Polarized Hepatic Cell Line Ann Hubbard, PhD

2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Masayuki Uemura, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Pennsylvania

The Role of Smad 2 and Smad 3 in Rat Hepatic Stellate Cell Proliferation

and Transdifferentiation Rebecca G. Wells, MD

2004 Abstract Prizes 750 Harpeet Pall, MD Childrens Hospital, Boston Massachusetts PPARa Only in combination with CFTR Dysfunction leads to bile duct injury

2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Timothy T. Kuo, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts

The Role of Epstein-Barr Virus-induced Gene 3 in NKT Cell Mediated

Hepatitis Richard S. Blumberg, MD

2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Rachel P. Baden, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center New York NKT Cells in an Animal Model of HCV Margaret J. Koziel, MD

2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Yang Lu, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York SV40-based Gene Therapy for Mucopolysac-chridoses VII

Jayanta Roy-Chowdhury,

MD

2003 Seed Grant 100,000 Thalachallour Mohanakumar, DVM, PhD Washington University Washington Immune Response to Hepatitis Viral Infections in Transplant Recipients

2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Jeffrey Browning, MD University of Texas Soputhwestern Medical Center at Dallas Texas The Effect of N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Liver Fat Content

Jay Horton, MD and Scott

Grundy, MD, PhD

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2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Junlan Zhang, MD, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham Alabama

The Roles of HO-1/CO Pathway and Inravascular Monocytes in

Pathogenesis of Experimental Hepetopulmonary Syundrome Michael B. Fallon, MD

2003 Liver Scholars 150,000 Kui Li, MD, PhD University of Texas Medical Branch Texas

Disruption of Innate Immunity of Hepatocytes by Hepatitis C Virus NS3/4A

Serine Protease Stanley M. Lemon, MD

2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Wen-Xing Ding, PhD University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Critical Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Bid-Mediated Mitochondrial

Activation Following Death-Receptor Engagement in Hepatocytes Xiao-Ming Yin, MD, PhD

2003 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Jennifer Layden-Almer University of Illinois at Chicago Illinois

HCV NS5A Protein Sequence Diversity in Infected African Americans and

Caucasians Thomas J. Layden, MD

2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Cynthia Levy, MD Mayo Clinic Minnesota

A Pilot Study of Inflizimab (Remicade) in Patients with Primary Sclerosing

Cholangitis Keith D. Lindor, MD

2003 Seed Grant 100,000 Chen Liu, MD, PhD University of Florida College of Medicine Florida

Establishment and Characterization of Human a-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

Liver Cell Lines

2003 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Annie J. Hsu University of California, Berkeley California Contribution of Bone Marrow Derived Cells to Liver Regeneration Sandy Feng, MD, PhD

2003 Seed Grant 100,000 Marion G. Peters, MD University of California, SF California Transgenic Murine Model of Biliary Specific Injury

2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Nicholas A. Shackel, PhD Duke University Medical Center North Carolina

Caldesmon Regulation During Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation and Liver

Injury Don C. Rockey, MD

2003 Abstract Prizes 750 Valerie A. McLin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio WNT Signaling in Early Liver Development in a Xxenopus model

2003 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Asmeen M. Jahan, MBBS Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Ohio

Suppression of the Human Sterol 12alpha- hydroxylase (CYP8B1) Gene by

Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) Dr. John Y. L. Chiang

2003 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 George Z. Cheng Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York

KLF6 Regulation of Cell Cycle Progression by Interaction with GSK-3B and

Cyclin D1 Scott L. Friedman, MD

2003 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Phillip Horne Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health Ohio Role of Host Macrophages in CD8+ T Cell Mediated Hepatocyte Rejection

Ginny L. Bumgardner,

MD, PhD

2003 Liver Scholars 150,000 Dympna Kelly, MCh, FRSCI University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

The Pathophysiology of the "Small-for-Size" Liver Graft

Anthony J. Demetris, MD

2003 Seed Grant 100,000 Jorge A. Bezerra, MD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Ohio Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Gene as a Modifier of Liver Disease in Biliary Atresia

2003 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Souvik Sarkar Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

Manipulation of p27Kip1 Activity as a Novel Approach to Improving

Hepatocyte Transplantation Success Liang Zhu, MD, PhD

2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Suheeta Roy, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Influence of Diet-Induced Obesity on Hepatic Lipis Metabolism in Mice David E. Cohen, MD, PhD

2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Mindy I. Davis, PhD California Institute of Technology California Structural and Biophysical Studies of Transferrin Receptor 2 Pamela J. Bjorkman

2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 14,000 Yong Wu, PhD Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute California

Retinoic Acids Regulated S-adenosyl Methionine Synthesis and

Metobolism on Alcohol Samuel French, MD

2003 Liver Scholars 150,000 Mauricio Loureiro-Silva, MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York

Mechanisms Involved in the Failure of the Intra-hepatic Circulation to

Respond to Nitrovasodilators in Cirrhosis

Roberto J. Groszmann,

MD

2003 Abstract Prizes 750 Toshi Gundji (sp?) NIH Maryland

Conditional Expression of Hepatitis C Virus Genome Induces Inflammation,

Steatosis and Hepatocellular Injury in a Transgenic Mouse Model

2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Alan Bohan, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

Role of the Nuclear Hormone Receptors (NHRs) Farnesoid X Receptor

(FXR) and Retinoid X Receptor (RXRa) in the Transcriptional Regulation of

Bile Salt Metabolism and Transport in Obstructive Cholestasis James L. Boyer, MD

2002 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Fernando D. Camargo Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy Texas Development of an Inducible System for Therapeutic Liver Repopulation Margaret A. Goodell, PhD

2002 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Brian T. Bucher University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Role of Arginine Metabolism and Nitric Oxide (NO) in Liver Transplant

Preservation Surgery David Geller, MD

2002 Liver Scholars 150,000 Ren Shunlin, MD, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Role of Cholesterol Transporters in Bile Acid Metabolism

William M. Pandak, Jr.,

MD

2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 14,000 Marius Braun, MD Cedars-Sinai Medical Center California John M. Vierling, MD

2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Malcolm A. Lyons, PhD The Jackson Laboratory New Jersey

Identification of the Gene Influencing Cholesterol Gallstone Susceptibility

on Mouse Chromosome 6 Beverly Paigen, PhD

2002 Liver Scholars 150,000 Wen Ming Chu, MD, PhD Brown University Rhode Island Activation of AP-1 and NF-kB by Thymosin Alpha 1

2002 Liver Scholars 150,000 Chen Liu, MD, PhD University of Florida College of Medicine Florida Cytokine-Induced Intrahepatic Anti-Hepatitis C Viral RNA Activity

James M. Crawford, MD,

PhD

2002 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Sridevi Kolluri University of Connecticut Connecticut

Regulation of the Housekeeping 5-Aminolevulinate Synthase Gene:

Identification and Characterization of Heme-repressive Response

Elements in the Promoter

Herbert L. Bonkovsky,

MD

2002 Seed Grant 100,000 Catherine H. Wu, PhD University of Connecticut Health Center Connecticut

The Effects of HBV Infection on HCV Replication in a Non-Primate Animal

Model of HCV Infection

2002 Seed Grant 100,000 Diane W. Cox, PhD University of Alberta Canada Genetic Modifier for Liver Disease in Alpha1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

2002 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Lawrence M. Flechner The Salk Institute for Biological Studies California

Determining theRole of CREB Activity and CREB Target Gene Expression in

Liver Regeneration

Marc Montminy, MD,

PhD

2002 Seed Grant 100,000 David A. Brenner, MD University of North Carolina North Carolina CFTR and Alpha-1 Antitrypsin in Liver Disease

2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 14,000 Ming-Sing Si, MD University of California, Irvine Medical Center California Prognostic Implications of Genomic Changes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

David K.Imagawa, MD,

PhD

2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Matthew J. Harris, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

Functional Characterization of the Progressive Familial Intrahepatic

Cholestasis Type 1 Protein Irwin Arias, MD

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2002 Liver Scholars 137,500 Urs Christen, PhD La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology California

Developmenmt of an Animal Model for Autoimmune Hepatitis: Breaking

of Self Tolerance in the CYP2D6 Humanized Mouse by Viral Infection

Matthias G. von Herrath,

PhD

2002 Abstract Prizes 750 Yoshiyuki Wakabayashi, PHD Tufts University School of Medecine Massachusetts

Dynamics and Kinetics of BSEP Constitutive Cycling Between the Bile

Canalicular Membrane and RAB 11-Associated Endosomes as Determined

by Confocal Fluorescence Imaging in WIF-B9 Cells

2002 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 John P. Bilello Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Pennsylvania

Transcriptional Regulation of the Human E-Cadherin Promotoer by Iron-

Loading in Hepatocytes Harriet C. Isom, PhD

2002 Liver Scholars 150,000 Natalie Nieto, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York

Liver Specific Nitric Oxide Generation and Protection Against Alcohol and

Drug-Induced Liver Injury

Arthur J. Cederbaum,

PhD

2002 Liver Scholars 150,000 Francis Eng, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York Hepatitis C and Alternate Reading Frame Proteins (ARFPs) Andrea Branch, PhD

2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Erick Hernandez, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

Regulation of Bicarbonate Secretion by Calcium Signaling in

Cholangiocytes

Michael H. Nathanson,

MD, PhD

2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Ramon Bataller, MD University of North Carolina North Carolina

Mechanisms Hepatitis C Virus-induced Liver Fibrosis: Role of Hepatic

Stellate Cells David A. Brenner, MD

2002 Abstract Prizes 750 Takeshi Aoki, MD Cedars-Sinai Medical Center California

Acetaminophen Toxicity Induces Bone Marrow Derived Liver Stem Cell

Activation

2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Menashe Elazar, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine California

Membrane Association of HCV's Non-Structural Proteins-Implications for

RNA Replication and Novel Anti HCV Strategies Jeffrey S. Glenn, MD, PhD

2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Gregory E. Kobak, MD Univesity of Colorado HSC / The Children's Hospital Colorado Mechanisms of Bile Acid Injury in Fat-Laden Hepatocytes Ronald J. Sokol, MD

2002 Liver Scholars 150,000 Raphael B. Merriman, MD University of California, SF California Genomic Determinants ofNon-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis John P. Kane, MD, PhD

2002 Seed Grant 100,000 Mark A. Exley, PhD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center New York Role of CD1-Reactive T Cells in HCV-Mediated Liver Disease

2002 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 David M. Lehmann University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry New York The Role of Alcohol in Diversifying Liver Function Harold C. Smith, MD

2002 Liver Scholars 150,000 Anne M. Wertheimer, PhD Oregon Health & Sciences Univrsity Oregon Effect of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) on Dendritic Cell Immuno-biology Hugo R. Rosen, MD

2002 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Christopher R. Reynolds Duke University School of Medic ine North Carolina

The Effect of Liver-Selective Nitric Oxide Donors on Portal Pressure,

Hepatic Microcirulation, and Mean Arterial Pressure in an Animal Model of

Portal Hypertension Don C. Rockey, MD

2002 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Mitchell Brett Sally University of North Carolina North Carolina Differentiation of Hepatic Progeniitoprs into Insulin-Producing Cells David Gerber, MD

2002 Seed Grant 100,000 Jeffrey H. Teckman, MD Washington University School of Medicine / St. Louis Children's Hospital Missouri

2001 Liver Scholars 150,000 Gordan Kilic, PhD University of Colorado HSC Colorado Regulation of Membrane Transport and Vesicular Trafficking by Insulin J. Gregory Fitz, MD

2001 Liver Scholars 150,000 Toru Miyazaki, MD, PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Texas

Prevention of Hepatitis by Supressing AIM, a Novel Apoptosis Inhibitory

Factor

Edward K. Wakeland,

PhD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Ganesh R. Panta, PhD University of Tennessee HSC Tennessee Role of NF-kappaB during neoplastic development of the liver Marcello Arsura, PhD

2001 Abstract Prizes 750 Henning Wege, MD University of California, Davis California Telomerase Reconstitution Iommortalizes Human Hepatocytes

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Henning Wege, MD University of California, Davis California

Immortalization of Human Hepatocytes by the Ectopic Expression of

Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase (hTERT) Mark A. Zern, MD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Toshiko Fukuma, MD, PhD University of Connecticut Health Center Connecticut

Liver-Specific Gene Delivery by Pseudotype Retrovirus withChimeric

Envelope Protein that consists of VSV-G and Asialoglycoprotein George Y. Wu, MD, PhD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Philip Hilgard, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

Regulation of virus induced apoptosis by a liver specific isoformof Protein

Kinase CK2s Richard J. Stockert, PhD

2001 Liver Scholars 150,000 David A. Gerber, MD University of North Carolina North Carolina Apoptosis of Hepatic Progenitor Cells and Cellular Transplantation Lola M. Reid, PhD

2001 Liver Scholars 150,000 Yuko Kono, MD, PhD The Regents of the University of California, SD California

Evaluation of Tumor Vascularity with Contrast-Enhanced High-Resolution

Grey-Scale Ultrasound Robert F. Mattrey, MD

2001 Liver Scholars 150,000 Ana J. Coito,PhD The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center California

Fibronectin-leukocyte Interaction as Novel Targets in Liver

Ischemia/ReperfusionInjury

Jerzy W. Kupiec-

Weglinski, MD, PhD

2001 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 James G. Priepot University of Chicago Illinois The Role of NS298 in Cancer-Associated Inflammatory Cytokine Production N. Joseph Espat, MD

2001 Liver Scholars 150,000 David N. Frick, PhD New York Medical College New York

Assembly of an HCV Replication Complex from Purified Recombinant

Proteins Ernest Y. C. Lee, PhD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 14,000 Barry Steinmetz, MD University of California, LA California

Transcriptional Inhibition of Paracellin-1 in the Kidney as an Etiology for

Mg Wasting in Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients on Tacrolimus Marvin Ament, MD

2001 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Karen Liu University of California, Berkeley California Signaling Pathways in Hepatic Specification and Patterning Richard Harland, MD

2001 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Adrien L. Janvier New York University Medical Center New York

Effect of Intracellular Retargeting of HBx on its Ability to Enhance Viral

Replication as Well as Transactive Transcription Robert J. Schneider, MD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Ahmad S. Abdulkarim, MD Mayo Clinic Minnesota The Role of Dynamin and MX Proteins in Hepatitis B Infection Mark A. McNiven, PhD

2001 Liver Scholars 150,000 Karen Clare McCowen, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center New York Fatty Acid Metabolism in Malabsorption

Bruce R. Bistrian, MD,

PhD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Guoping Feng, PhD University of Southern California California Mechanisms of Apoptotic Effect of Staurosporine on Primary Hepatocytes Neil Kaplowitz, MD

2001 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Pavitra Keshavan University of Cincinnati Ohio Regulation of Colon Cancer Proliferation byBilirubin Stephen Zucker, MD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Takashi Hamazaki, MD University of Florida College of Medicine Florida Selection of Hepatocyte Precursors from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Naohiro Terada, MD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Hideyuki Hyogo, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Obesity, Leptin and Biliary Lipid Secretion David E. Cohen, MD, PhD

2001 Liver Scholars 150,000 Tong Wu, PhD University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Regulation and Function of Cyctosolic Phospholipase A2 in Human

Hepatocytes

George K. Michalopoulos,

MD, PhD

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2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Young-Soo Kim, MD, PhD University of North Carolina North Carolina

Induction of NF-KB via IKB kinase by etoposide, gamma radiation and

tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) protects

human hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines from cell death. David A. Brenner, MD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Thomas Pusl, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Regulation of gene expression in liver by ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA)

Michael H. Nathanson,

MD, PhD

2001 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Julius Clemence R. Hafalla New York University School of Medicine New York

Liver-Traffickingof Antigen-Specific CD8+T Cells in a Murine Model of

Malaria Infection Fidel Zavala, MD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Yoichi Hiasa, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School Massachusetts PKR Alterations in Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infrection Raymond R. Chung, MD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Mike A. Leonis, MD, PhD Children's Hospital Medical Center ?

The Role of the RON Receptor Tyrosine Kinase in a Endotoxin-Mediated

Murine Model of Fulminant Hepatic Failure Susan Waltz, PhD

2001 Abstract Prizes 750 Mike A. Leonis, MD, PhD Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cinncinnati Ohio

Deletion of the Cytoplasmic domain of Ron Tyrosine Kinase Receptor

Affords Marked Protection in a Murine Model of Endotoxin-mediated

Acute Liver Failure

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Beth A. Carter, MD Baylor College of Medicine Texas

Investigation of a mutation in the bile acid transporter gene as a likely

cause of a unique case of infantile cholestasis Saul J. Karpen, MD, PhD

2001 Liver Scholars 150,000 Samir S. Awad, MD Baylor College of Medicine Texas

The Effect of Transforming Growth Factor Beta on Hepatic Regeneration in

a Surgical Modelof Acute Hepatic Failure Saul J. Karpen, MD, PhD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Matthew J. Harris, MD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts Functional analysis of the familial intrahepatic cholestasis protein (FIC1) Irwin M. Arias, MD

2001 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Eustratios Bananis Albert Einstein School of Medicine New York Role of Molecular Motors in Endocytic Vesicle Processing Allan W. Wolkoff, MD

2001 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Adrienne J. Tsai (may be "Naoky Tsai") Brown University School of Medicine Rhode Island

Effects of Core Promoter Mutations on the Replication Capacity of

Naturally Occurring Hepatitis B Virus Strains

Shuping Tong, MD and

Jack Wands, MD

2001 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Elizabeth Yakes Case Western Reserve University Ohio Effect of Ethanol on MAPK Activity in Kupffer Cells: Regulation by Camp Laura E. Nagy, PhD

2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Shannon M. Bard, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum, a Newly Designated Liver Disorder Analogous

to Alpha1-Antitrypsin Deficiency Irwin M. Arias, MD

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Julie A. Margenthaler, MD Washington University Washington

Investigation of Portal Venous Tolerance to Class I Ld Alloantigen in the 2C

Transgenic Mouse M. Wayne Flye, MD, PhD

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Lance R. Dunlop University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Pennsylvania Generation and Production of Helper-Dependent Adenoviral Vectors

Professor James M.

Wilson

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Nihar N. Mandavia USC School of Pharmacy South Carolina Role of the Tata Binding Protein in Oncogenesis Dr. Deborah Johnson

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Peter A. Gochee University of Rochester New York Hereditary Hemochromatosis: Studies of the Penetrance of the HFE Gene Lawrie Powell, MD, PhD

2000 Abstract Prizes 750 Dan Li, MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York

2000 Seed Grant 100,000 Mark A. Zern, MD University of California, Davis California SV40 Vectors and Gene Therapy for Alpha 2- Antitrypsin Deficiency

2000 Liver Scholars 150,000 Jean Sevigny, PhD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center New York

Characterization and Role of Canalicular Nucleoside Triphosphate-

Diphosphohydrolase Simon C. Robson, PhD

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Natalie J. Torok, MD Mayo Clinic Minnesota Nitric oxide, Dysregulation of Apoptosis and Cholangiocarcinoma Gregory J. Gores, MD

2000 Liver Scholars 150,000 Jian Wu, MD, PhD University of California, Davis California Development of Liver-Specific Liposomes for Therapeutics Mark A. Zern, MD

2000 Seed Grant 100,000 Jeffrey H. Teckman, MD Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital Missouri Autophagy in the Physiology of A1-Antitrypsin Z

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Naglaa H. Shoukry, PhD Children's Research Institute ?

Role of CD4+ T cell mediated immunity in the outcome of hepatitis C virus

infection

Christopher M. Walker,

PhD

2000 Liver Scholars 150,000 Ana Rodriguez, PhD New York University Medical Center New York

Hepatocyte-plasmodium Interations: Implications for Protection Against

Malaria Dr. Ruth Nussenzweig

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Lawrence A. Cicchiello Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York The Role of MyoD in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation Scott L. Friedman, MD

2000 Physician Research Development 275,000 Efsevia Albanis, MD Mount Sinai Medical Center New York Non-Invasive Analysis of Liver Fibrosis by Receptor Imaging

Scott Laurence Friedman,

MD

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Colin T. Swales University of Massachusetts Medical School Massachusetts

Determination of the Effect of Metalloporphyrins on Regulating mRNA

Synthesis in Hepatocytes

Herbert L. Bonkovsky,

MD

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Gabriele Toietta, PhD Baylor College of Medicine Texas

Helper-Dependent Adenoviral-Mediated Gene Therapy for Crigler-Najjar

Syndrome Type I. Brendan Lee, MD

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Allison F. O'Neill Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Regulation of Cell Growth by Nuclear Ca2+ in Liver

Michael H. Nathanson,

MD, PhD

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Ashwin Rumalla, MD Mayo Clinic Minnesota

Distinguishing Benign and Malignant Strictures of the Biliary Tract: Ploidy

Assessment by Digital Image Analysis

Todd H. Baron, MND,

FACP

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Julia J. Liu, MD Brigham & Women's Hospital Massachusetts

Cholangiocyte Ileal Sodium-dependent Bile Acid Transporter (ASBT)

Expression in the Pathogenesis of Cholesterol Gallstones Martin C. Carey, MD, DSc

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Michele K. Wu Albert Einstein School of Medicine New York Transcriptional Regulation of Phosphatidylcholine Transfer Protein David E. Cohen, MD, PhD

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Robert F. Schwabe, MD University of North Carolina North Carolina The role of CD40 in liver fibrosis David A. Brenner, MD

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Farin F. Amersi, MD University of California, LA California Novel Therapeutic Approaches in Reducing Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

Ronald W. Busuttil, MD,

PhD

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Gavin J. Gordon University of North Carolina North Carolina Therapeutic Stem Cell Transplantation in Genetic Liver Disease William B. Coleman, PhD

2000 Abstract Prizes 750 Marcus Auth, MD University Clinic of Essen, Children's Hospital Germany

2000 Liver Scholars 90,000 Ishtiaq Qadri, PhD University of Colorado HSC Colorado

Molecular Mechanism(s) for Synergism between Hepatitis C Virus and the

Progression of Alcohol-induced Liver Disease (ALD) Francis Simon, MD

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Gautam P. Yagnik University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pennsylvania Protective Role of Nitric Oxide (NO) in Liver Transplant Preservation Injury David A. Geller, MD

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2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Lin Huang, MD, PhD Brigham & Women's Hospital Massachusetts

Induction of apoptosis of activated T cells by hepatitis C virus as a

mechanism of viral persistence Margaret Koziel, MD

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Kazuo Ikeda, MD, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York DDR2 Receptor Signaling during Stellate Cell Activation Scott L. Friedman, MD

2000 Liver Scholars 150,000 Edward E. Cable,PhD Penn State University School of Medicine Pennsylvania Regulation of Hepatic-Aminolevulinic Acid Synthase Harriet Isom, PhD

2000 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Annaji G. Kalkeri Tulane Medical School Louisiana HCV-GFP Chimera to Study Host-Virus Interation Srikanta Dash, PhD

2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Tina M. Williams, PhD University of North Carolina North Carolina

Defining Roles for Androgen, Estrogen, and their Cognate Receptors

Suppression of the Tumorigenic Phenotype by the Female Liver

Microenvironment J. W. Grisham, MD

1999 Abstract Prizes 500 Nakshatra K. Roy, PhD Veterans Administration Medical Center ? Type 1 Collagen Gene Regulation by Smad 4 Protein in Liver Fibrosis Jerome M. Seyer, PhD

1999 Liver Scholars 90,000 Stephen J. Polyak, PhD University of Washington Missouri

Functions of the Hepatitis C Virus Non-Structural 5A Protein in Interferon

Resistance David R. Gretch, MD, PhD

1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Kim R. Bridle, PhD Saint Louis University Missouri

Miitogenic Signaling Pathways Utilized by Insulin-Like Growth Factor in

Hepatic Stellate Cells Bruce R. Bacon, MD

1999 Abstract Prizes 500 Shawn J. Pelletier, MD University of Virginia Virginia Hepatitis C Virus Quasispecies and Recurrence after Liver Transplantation

Timothy Pruett, MD and

Young Hahn, PhD

1999 Liver Scholars 90,000 Stanislav I. Svetlov, MD, PhD University of Florida Florida Molecular Regulation of Bioactive Lipids in the Inflamed Liver

James M. Crawford, MD,

PhD

1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Dan Li, MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York The Biologic Role of Zf9 in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation Scott L. Friedman, MD

1999 Abstract Prizes 500 Ming Zhang, MD, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham Alabama

Pulmonary Vascular Dysfunction Induced by Liver Injury in Rat: Regulation

of eNOS by Elevated Endothelin-1 from Liver Michael B. Fallon, MD

1999 Physician Research Development 225,000 C. Andrew Bonham, MD Univesity of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pennsylvania

Genetic Engineering of Dendritic Cell-Based Therapy of Hepatitis B

Infection Angus W. Thomson, PhD

1999 Abstract Prizes 500 Baruch Yerashalmi, MD University of Colorado HSC Colorado The Mechanism of Hepatic Cytoprotection by UDCA Ronald J. Sokol, MD

1999 Liver Scholars 90,000 Ji Su Li, MD Rhode Island Hospital Rhode Island Molecular Characterization of Carboxpeptidase D as an Avian Jack R. Wands, MD

1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Eugenio Montini, PhD Oregon Health Sciences University Oregon

Generation of a Model of Xenogeneic Liver Repopulation in the

Fumarylacetoacetate Hydrolase (FAH) Deficient Mice Markus Grompe, MD

1999 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Laura L. Mitic Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

Functional Characterization of Claudin-3 in HepG2 Hepatoma Tight

Junctions James M. Anderson, MD

1999 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Thomas K. Lee University of Rochester School of Medicine New York

Mechanism of Hepatic Drug Uptake and Glutathione (GSH) Efflux as

Mediated by the Oapt 1 Transporter Nazzareno Ballatori, PhD

1999 Abstract Prizes 500 Peter Ujhazy, MD, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

The Role of Canalicular Amino Phospholipid Translocase in Bile Acid

Secretion and its Relation to the FICI Gene Product Irwin M. Arias, MD

1999 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Alissa M. Lancaster Stanford University School of Medicine California Identification of Antiviral Peptides that Inhibit Hepatitis C Translation Peter Sarnow, PhD

1999 Abstract Prizes 500 Richard A. Rosencrantz, MD Albert Einstein School of Medicine New York Gene Therapy Correction of Wilson's Disease in a Rat Model Irwin M. Arias, MD

1999 Abstract Prizes 500 Xin Wang, PhD Oregon Health Sciences University Oregon A Transplantation Assay for Pancreatic Liver Stem Cells Markus Grompe, MD

1999 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Goutham Narla, MD, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York A Transgenic Mouse Model of Hepatic Fibrosis and Cirrhosis Scott L. Friedman, MD

1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Meeta Jaiswal, PhD Mayo Clinic Minnesota

Proinflammatory Cytokines, Nitric Oxide Production and DNA Repair

Machinery in Cholangiocarcinoma Gregory J. Gores, MD

1999 Abstract Prizes 500 Aglaia Zellos, MD Johns Hopkins Hospital Maryland

1999 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Juan M. Baez Albert Einstein School of Medicine New York

Role of hosphatidylcholine Transfer Protein inHepatic Cholesterol

Elimination David E. Cohen, MD, PhD

1999 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 David S. Yoo Duke University School of Medicine North Carolina

G Protein-Coupled-Receptor Signaling Events in Rat Hepatic Stellate Cell

Contractility Don C. Rockey, MD

1999 Student Research Fellowship 90,000 Johnathan P. Piccini Northwestern University Medical School Ohio Lymnphocyte (NK Cell) Role in Liver Xzenograft Rejection Jonathan P. Fryer, MD

1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Brett E. Jones, MD Albert Einstein School of Medicine New York

Protective Effect of Cytochrome P4502E1 Expression During Hepatocyte

Injury Mark J. Czaja, MD

1999 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Jennifer P. Cha Washington University School of Medicine Washington

Evaluate the Role of AP-1 Transcriptional Activity in Hepatocyte

Replication Inducted by Growth Factors Katherine P. Ponder, MD

1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Ai yu Gong, MD o Mayo Clinic Minnesota

Aquaporin Channel-Mediated Transepithelial Water Movement in Isolated

Mouse Bile Duct Units (BDUs) Nicholas La Russo, MD

1999 Abstract Prizes 500 Bhupesh Parashar, MD Albert Einstein School of Medicine New York

Recombinant Simian Virus 40 Vectors Integrate into Host Genome, and

Permit Efficient Long-Term and Repeatable Gene Transfer to the Liver in

Vivo

1999 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Diana J. Auyeung Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Mechanism of UGT1A6 Induction by Oltipraz Joseph K. Ritter, PhD

1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Michitaka Ozaki, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins Univesity School of Medicine Maryland Small GTPase-Rac1 Mediates Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in the Liver Kaikobad Irani, MD

1999 Liver Scholars 90,000 Wei Liao, MD, PhD San Diego State Univesity California

Regulation of Hepatic Production Apoliproprotein B Containing

Lipoproteins by Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein Roger Davis, PhD

1999 Liver Scholars 90,000 Ann W. Funkhouser, MD The University of Chicago Illinois

A Mouse Engrafted with Human Liver Cells: Model of Human Hepatitis

Viruses Raymond Roos, MD

1999 Liver Scholars 90,000 Naushad Ali, PhD University of Colorado Colorado Hepatitis C Virus-Inducted Liver Pathogenesis: Strategy of Replication Aleem Siddiqui, PhD

1999 Liver Scholars 90,000 Cornelis A. Rijnbrand, PhD University of Texas Medical Branch Texas 3D RNA Structure Model for the HCV Internal Robosome Entry Segment Stanley M. Lemon, MD

1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Elizabeth A. Hall, PhD Virginia Commonwealth Univesity Virginia Role of CYP27 in the Regulation of Cholesterol William Pandak, MD

1998 Liver Scholars 90,000 R. Brian Doctor, PhD University of Colorado HSC Colorado

1998 Seed Grant 100,000 M. Eric Gershwin, MD University of California, Davis California

1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Martina Buck, PhD Salk Institute for Biological Studies California

Phosphorylation of C/EBPB on Ser 105 by RSK Mediates TGFa-induced

Proliferation of Rat Hepatocytes Ronald B. Corley, PhD

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1998 Physician Research Development 235,000 Jeffrey S. Glenn, MD, PhD Stanford University California Prenylation Inhibition as a Novel Treatment for Viral Hepatitis Harry B. Greenberg, MD

1998 Abstract Prizes 500 Andrew P. Feranchak, MD Children's Hospital Massachusetts

1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Li Feng, PhD Albert Einstein School of Medicine New York

Cloning, Expression and Characterization of Recombinant Human Liver

Phosphatidylcholine Transfer Protein David E. Cohen, MD, PhD

1998 Liver Scholars 90,000 John A. Goss, MD Baylor College of Medicine Texas

1998 Seed Grant 100,000 Neil D. Theise, MD New York University Medical Center New York

1998 Liver Scholars 90,000 Jianming Hu, MD, PhD Boston University School of Medicine Massachusetts

1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Peter Ujhazy, MD, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts The Role of Phosphoinositide Kinases in Bile Acid Transport and Secretion Irwin M. Arias, MD

1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 John R. Henley, PhD Mayo Clinic Minnesota

Vesicular Transport of Hepatocytes: Role of the Dynamin Family of

Guanosine Triphosphatases Mark A. McNiven, PhD

1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 John M. Lee, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Evaluating the Sister of P-glycoprotein (spgp) in Cholestatis James L. Boyer, MD

1998 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Prathima R. Gondipalli Washington University Washington

The Ability of Interleukin 6 to Augment Hepatocyte Replication in

Response to Hepatocyte Growth Factor (for Hepatic Gene Therapy) Katherine P. Ponder, MD

1998 Liver Scholars 90,000 Curt M. Horvath, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York

1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Mark D. Fleming, MD Children's Hospital Massachusetts

Hereditary Hemochromatosis: Regulation of the Intestinal Expression of

HFE and NRAMP2

Nancy C. Andrews, MD,

PhD

1998 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Gregory J. Sieczkiewicz Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

The Role of the Transcription Factor HATF-1 in the Pathogenesis of Portal

Hypertension Ira Herman, PhD

1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Allison J. Draper, PhD University of California, Davis California Biosynthesis of Linoleate Oxylipids by Activated Kupffer Cells Bruce D. Hammock, PhD

1998 Abstract Prizes 500 Brett E. Jones, MD Albert Einstein School of Medicine California

1998 Seed Grant 100,000 Howard J. Worman, MD Columbia University New York

1998 Seed Grant 100,000 Andrew L. Mason, MBBS Ochsner Clinic Louisiana

1998 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Kelly R. Pitts Mayo Clinic and Foundation Minnesota Role of the Novel Dynamin-like Protein DLP1 in Hepatocellular Secretion Mark A. McNiven, PhD

1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 John W. Murray, PhD Albert Einstein School of Medicine New York

The Processing and Movement of Hepatocyte Endocvytic Vesicles Along

Microtubules Allan W. Wolkoff, MD

1998 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Arash Pezhman Columbia University New York Isolation and Characterization of Putative Sterol Reductase in the Liver Howard Worman, MD

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Cuihua Gao, MD Washington University Washington

1997 Liver Scholars 90,000 Young S. Hahn, PhD University of Virginia Virginia Mechanism of Immune Modulation by Hepatitis C Virus

1997 Liver Scholars 90,000 Donna B. Stolz, PhD University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pennsylvania

Hepatocyte-sinusoidal Endothelial Cell Interactions During Angiogenesis of

the Liver Following Partial Hepatectomy

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Dominique Roulot-Marullo, MD University of California, SF California

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Sharon C. Presnell, PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill North Carolina

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Robert H. Pierce, MD University of Washington Missouri

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Andrew P. Feranchak, MD Children's Hospital, Denver Colorado

1997 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Justin G. Teeguarden University of Wisconsin Medical School Wisconsin

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Michelle L. Joachims, PhD University of Oklahoma HSC Oklahoma

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Christopher L. Mabee, MD Univesity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas Texas

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Konstantinos N. Lazaridis, MD Mayo Clinic and Foundation Minnesota

1997 Abstract Prizes 500 Emmanuel Jacquemin, MD University of Paris-Sud, France France

1997 Abstract Prizes 500 John E. Poulos, MD Saint Louis University HSC Missouri

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 John E. Poulos, MD Saint Louis University HSC Missouri

1997 Liver Scholars 90,000 Patricia Greenwel, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York

Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Acetaldehyde-mediated & 2 (1)

Collagen Upregulation in Liver Stellate Cells

1997 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Angela M. Lucas University of Connecticut HSC Connecticut

1997 Liver Scholars 90,000 Nizar N. Zein, MD Mayo Clinic and Foundation Minnesota

The Mechanism of Biologic Variations and Persistence of Hepatitis C

Infection

1997 Physician Research Development 275,000 Natalie Bzowej, MD, PhD University of California, SF California

Dynamic Behavior of Hepatitis C Virus in Patients with Mulltiple HCV

Infection

1997 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Cynthia A. Bradham University of North Carolina North Carolina

1997 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Xing-hong Leng, MD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Paul J. Mustacchia, MD Columbia Presbyterian New York

1997 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Natalie L. Jacobs Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

1997 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Neil D. Mehta University of Connecticut HSC Connecticut

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Jacob George, PhD University of California, SF California The Causes of Fibrosis in the Liver

1996 Liver Scholars 90,000 Marlyn Jean Mayo, MD Univesity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Texas Why White Blood Cells Attack the Liver in PBC

1996 Physician Research Development 275,000 Kyong-Mi Chang, MD The Scripps Research Institute California How the Hepatitis C Virus Escapes Attack by the Immune System

1996 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Gavin E. Arteel University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill North Carolina How Liver Cells are Damaged by Methotrexate

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Jacqueline M. Saito, MD University of California, SF California DNA Changes that Occur in Liver Cancer

1996 Liver Scholars 90,000 Srikanta Dash, PhD Tulane University School of Medicine Louisiana How the Hepatitis C Virus Reproduces and the Effects of Antiviral Agents

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Cornel Fraefel, PhD Children's Hospital, Boston Massachusetts Use of Herpes Virus for GeneTherapy in the Liver

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Victor Wu, MD University of Caf California Hepatitis C Genotypes and Liver Disease

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Philip N. Adjei, MD Mayo Foundation Minnesota Role of a Certain Enzyme in Possibly Destroying Liver Cancer Cells

1996 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 John R. Henley Mayo Clinic Minnesota Platelet Activating Factor and Liver Damage

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Vijay Shah, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Nitrous Oxide and Blood Flow in Cirrhotic Livers

1996 Abstract Prizes 500 Yasunari Nakamoto, MD Scripps Research Institute California Study on How Liver Cells are Damaged in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients

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1996 Abstract Prizes 500 Michael Robert York Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Hepatitis C Virus and theBody's Defenses

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Qian Ye, PhD Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York

Role of Proteins in Liver RegenerationAfter Injury and the Development of

Cancer and Cirrhosis

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Anna Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts The Loss of Liver Cell Function with Age

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Timothy J. Davern II, MD University of California, SF California Gene Therapy for Viral Hepatitis and Cancer

1996 Liver Scholars 90,000 Daniel Francisco Ortiz, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

Identification of a Gene Responsible for a Protein that Regulates the Flow

of Bile and Could Play a Role in Gallstones and High Cholesterol

1996 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Lisa M. MacRae Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts Role of a Protein in PBC

1996 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Qing Liu Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

sRole of a Certain Protein in How Liver Cells React to Hormones, Viruses

andTumor Cells

1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Lorraine Racine-Samson, PhD University of California, SF California How the Liver Reacts to Injury

1996 Liver Scholars 90,000 James M. Lopez, MD, PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Texas How the Liver Regenerates

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Robert S. Carver Vanderbilt University Medical School Tennessee How the Liver Regenerates itself after Damage

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Marlyn Jean Mayo, MD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Texas

Why the Body's Immune System Attacks and Destroys the Liver's Bile

Ducts in PBC

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Alan Scott Fanning, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Study How Liver Cells Aid in Production of Proteins

1995 Abstract Prizes 500 Stephen T. Webster, MD Veterans Administration Medical Center, Ann Arbor Michigan

The Possible Role of Oxygen in Changing the Way a Liver Cell Gene is

Expressed

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Joyce A. Feller, PhD University of Florida Florida

Study to determine if the Hepatitis C Virus Gene Can be Regulated to

Develop Better Therapeutic Strategies

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 David R. Nelson, MD Unioversity of Florida Florida The Role of the Immune Response in Chronic Hepatitis Viral Infections

1995 Abstract Prizes 500 Jane W. S. Fang, MD University of Florida Florida Study of Hepatitis C Virus Subtype for Vaccine Development

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 John K. Westwick, PhD University of North Carolina, CH North Carolina The Study of Why Some Transplanted Livers Fail

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Amindra S. Arora, MD Mayo Foundation Minnesota

Study Why Liver Cancer Cells Do Not Die, as Normal Cells Do, When

Deprived of Oxygen

1995 Liver Scholars 90,000 Stephen Alexander Duncan, Dphil Rockefeller University New York

The Role of Genes and Proteins in the Embryonic Development of the

Liver

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Steve Carlson, DVM University of Iowa College of Medicine Iowa The Role of the Platelet Activating Factor When the Liver is Damaged

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Vlad Ratziuy, MD University of California, SF California How a Specific Gene in the Liver Contributes to Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Kyong-Mi Chang, MD Scripps Research Institute California How the Hepatitis C Virus Changes to Avoid the Body's Immune Defenses

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Qian Ye, PhD Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New The Role of Certain Proteins in Patients with PBC

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Flora Tartakovsky Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New

Whether Antibodies Produced by Patients with PBC Aid in the Destruction

of Bile Ducts

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Reinoldus H. Al Emory University School of Medicine Georgia Study How the Hepatitis V Virus Reporduces

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Hans-Martin Korb, PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Washington Regulation of Genes in Connection with Liver Cancer

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Deepak Rajegowda Harvard Medical School Massachusetts

Bacterial Causes of Abdominal Lining Inflammation Resulting from Liver

Disease

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Pak K. Yuet Harvard Medical School Massachusetts

How Gallstones are Formed and Whether Altering the Chemical Properties

of Bile Affects their Formation

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Elizabeth LaRusso Mayo Foundation Minnesota How Liver Cells Contribute to a Failure to Produce Bile

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Lisa Virginia Tsue, PhD Scripps Research Institute California How the Body's Immune System Clears the Hepatitis B Virus from the Liver

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Steven M. Jones University of Colorado School of Medicine Colorado How Liver Cells Transport Certain Proteins

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Susan B. Bowman, PhD University of Colorado School of Medicine Colorado

Study How Hormones Regulate Bile Produced by the Liver and the

Relation of this to Liver Damage and the Formation of Gallstones

1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Graeme A. Macdonald, MD university of Michigan Medical Center Michigan The Study of Changes of DNA that Occur in Liver Cancer

1995 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Laura IL. Licato University of North Carolina, CH North Carolina Study of Factors of Liver Regeneration

1994 Liver Scholars 90,000 Michael H. Nathanson, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

Study How the Flow of Bile is Regulated and its Possible Effects on Liver

Disease

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Mara Massimi, PhD VA Medical Center, San Francisco California The Study of How the Liver Regulates Cholesterol

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Ross Alan Ramos, PhD University of California, Berkeley California How Certain Hormones Activate Genes that Prevent Cancer

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Paolo Caraceni, MD Oklahoma Transplantation Institute, Baptist Medical Center Oklahoma Why LiverCells do not Function after Trabsokabtatuib

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Paul John Winwood, MD University of California, SF California

The Role of Chemicals Related to Vitamin A and Their Possible Role in

Causing Cirrhosis

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Christopher L. Bowlus, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Study the Genetic Basis for Early Diagnosis of Excess Iron in the Liver

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Victor J. Navarro, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Early Dwetection of Organ Rejection in Liver Transplants

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Raymond P. Compton, MD East Tennessee State University, James H. Quilloen College of Medicine Tennessee

Why the Liver Fails Because of the Way Certain Liver Cells Respond to

Infection

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Nakshatra K. Roy, PhD VA Hospital, Memphis Tennessee Study of How the Protein Collagen Contributes to Cirrhosis

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Juan Carlos Teran, MD, MS Case Western Reserve University Ohio

Ways to Improve the Ability of Cirrhotic Patients to Use Protein in their

Diets

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Jane P. Balint, MD Children's Hospital MedicalCenter, Cincinnati Ohio The Role of Protein GC-C in the Growth and Repair of an Injured Liver

1994 Liver Scholars 90,000 Jeffrey Holt Albrecht, MD University of Minnesota Medical School Minnesota The Genetic Basis for Liver Regeneration

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 John G. Brant, Jr. University of California, SD California

How Gallstones Can be Prevented by Studying the Way the Liver Makes

Cholesterol

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1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Maithao N. Le Washington University School of Medicine Washington Research in Possible Ways to Change Genes that Cause Liver Disease

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Wolfram Goessling Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts How Cholesterol Assists the Liver in Removing Bilirubin from the Blood

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Charles S. Donner, MD Stanford University California The Role of Certain Liver Proteins in the Regulation of Cholesterol

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Ji Eun Choi University of Connecticut HSC Connecticut Ways to Change Genetic Defects that Cause Liver Diseases

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Yue-Zhen Lin, MD Washington University School of Medicine Washington How Genes Play a Role in Liver Cancer

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Qian Ye, PhD Mount Sinai Medical Center New York Role of Nuclear Envelope Proteins in PBC

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Marie Vivien St. Pierre, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts Study of How Bile Ducts are Damaged

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 tiffany A. Cook Mayo Clinic Minnesota How Liver Cells Use Certain Proteins

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Karen L. Steinmetz Indiana University Indiana Role of Transforming Growth Factor Alfa in Liver Cancer

1994 Liver Scholars 90,000 David E. Cohen, MD, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts

The Role of Liver Cells in the Production of Excess Cholesterol and the

Formation of Gallstones

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Shamsuddin Khwaja Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Possible Role of Fish Oil in Liver Damage When Combined with Alcohol

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Andrew N. Leonard Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts Role of Bile Salts in Chronic Liver Diseases and Formation of Gallstones

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Dwayne A. Hill New York University Medical Center New York The Role of Hepatitis Viruses in Causing Primary Livr Cancer

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Mengci Qiu Northeastern Ohio University Ohio How Cholesterol is Regulated by the Liver

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 John Ghobrial Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts Genetic Regulation of Cholesterol in the Liver

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Michell L. Machado Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts How Certain Parts of Liver Cells Function

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Sandra L. Murray, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts The Role of Certain Protein in Liver Cancer Associated with Kidney Cysts

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Dwayne A. Hill University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona Possible Role ofVitamin A in the Prevention of Liver Damage

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Robert Stephen Brown, Jr., MD University of California, SF California Study Why Excess Copper is not Excreted by the Liver

1994 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 John Ghobrial University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ New Jersey The Role of Fat in Liver Injury

1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Zoran Ilic, MD, MS University of Texas HSC, Houston Texas

The Genetic Reason for Death of Liver Cells and the Role this Plays in Liver

Cancer

1993 Liver Scholars 90,000 David S. Raiford, MD Vanderbilt University Tennessee

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Jose E. Manautou, PhD University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs Connecticut

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Hal F. Yee,, Jr., MD, PhD

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 David Tze-Yan Wong, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine California

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Srikanta Dash, PhD

1993 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 John A. Daller, MD University of Arizona MedicalSchool Arizona

1993 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Kim Mendelson Tufts University Medical School Massachusetts

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Simon E. Chin, MD

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Richard M. Green, MD

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Bradley Lawrence Freilich, MD

1993 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Susan Ceryak Tfhe George Washington University Washington, DC

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Ari J. Bergwerk, MD

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Yukito Adachi, MD, PhD

1993 Liver Scholars 90,000 Johnson Yiu-Nam Lau, MD University of Florida Florida

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Zbigniew Miroslaw Szczepiorkowski, MD Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Mauricio S. Maia, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Marie Vivien St. Pierre, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Saul J. Karpen, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

1993 Liver Scholars 90,000 Leslie Ellen Rogler, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

1993 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Qing Xiao Indiana University School of Medicine Indiana

1993 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Stewart T. Hou New Jersey Medical Center New Jersey

1993 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Kathryn E. Wenniger Tufts University Medical School Massachusetts

1993 Liver Scholars 90,000 Graham F. Barnard, MD, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical Center Massachusetts

1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Carolyn J. Holeski, MD, PhD University of Southern California California

1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Neera Kanhouwa Dahl Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Adrian Vilalta, PhD University of Southern California California

1992 Liver Scholars 90,000 Bruce A. Luxon, MD, PhD University of California, SF California

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Carl Lansing Berg, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Eric Lagasse, PhD Stanford MedicalSchool California

1992 Liver Scholars 90,000 Lynn Ann Burmeister, MD University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Frederick M. Zachman Indiana University School of Medicine Indiana

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Kyle E. Brown, MD University of Virginia HSC Virgina

1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Alan K. Marumoto University of Illinois College of Medicine Illinois

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Paul H. Hayashi, MD University of California, Davis California

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Cynthia R. Leveille, DVM Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts

1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Zhi Zhong University of north Carolina North Carolina

1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Howard B. Yeon Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Grant Anthony Ramm, MD St. Louis University Medical Center Missouri

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Clifton E. McPherson, PhD Brown University Rhode Island

1992 Liver Scholars 90,000 Don C. Rockey, MD University of California, SF California

1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Karen L. Steinmetz Indiana University School of Medicine Indiana

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Claude R. Roland, MD Washingron University Missouri

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Saul J. Karpen, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Samuel Harold Sigal, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

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1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 James Gus Roros New Jersey Medical School New Jersey

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Parmjeet K. Suri, PhD Roger Williams Medical Center Rhode Island

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Timothy M. Sankary, MD University of California California

1992 Liver Scholars 90,000 Karl P. Houglum, MD University of California, SD California

1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Alfred Lee-Young, MD University of Connecticut School of Medicine Connecticut

1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Maria Theresa Puppolo University of Massachusetts Medical Center Massachusetts

1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 Ashish Gupta University of Michigan Medical School Michigan

1992 Student Research Fellowship 2,500 William J. Dutczak, Jr. University of Rochester New York

1991 Liver Scholars 100,000 Katherine P. Ponder, MD Washington University School of Medicine washington Investigation of Liver Cell Regeneration

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Bruce A. Luxon, MD, PhD University of California, SF California The Mechanism of Metabolizing Fats by Hepatocytes

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 John H. Bloor, MD, PhD University of Colorado HSC Colorado How a Toxin Made from Alcohol St6imulates Scar Tissue Formation

1991 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Cynthia Leveille Tufts University Massachusetts How Liver Cells Resist Chemotherapy

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 James R. Jacob, PhD Cornell University Medical Center New How Liver Cells Become Malignant

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 John A. Goss, MD Washington University School of Medicine Washington Immunologic Changes During Liver Regeneration

1991 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Kenneth Cruz University of Michigan Medical School Michigan Mechanism of Injury Caused by Low Blood Flow to the Liver

1991 Liver Scholars 100,000 Mark A. McNiven, PhD Mayo Clinic Minnesota The Mechanism by Which Liver Cells Transport Protein

1991 Liver Scholars 100,000 Joel E. Lavine, MD, PhD University of California, SF California Introducing Genes into Liver Cells to Correct Inborn Abnormalities

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Bahri Bilir, MD University of Michigan Medical Center Michigan The Imp[ortance of a Special Glucose Transporter in Vulnerable Liver Cells

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 David E. Cohen, MD, PhD Brigham & Women's Hospital Massachusetts Gallstone Formation and Prevention

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Toshiro Nishida, MD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts The Mechanism of Bile Formation

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Eric A. Argao, MD Children's Hospital Medical Center Massachusetts How Liver Cells Maintain their Fluid Balance

1991 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Terrence J. Joyce Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Liver Antigens Recognized by Immune Cells

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Parmjeet K. Suri, PhD Roger Williams Medical Center Rhode Island Protein Involvement in the Formation of Liver Fibrosis

1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Steven R. Kain, PhD University of California, Berkeley California The Effects of Corticosteroids on Viral Proteins

1991 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Keith L. Hines University of Iowa College of Medicine Iowa Effects of Anaphylactic Shock on the Liver

1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Averell H. Sherker, MD Stanford University School of Medicine California Study of the Genes Involved in the Development of Primary Liver Cancer

1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Michael H. Nathanson, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Study of the Mechanism of Bile Secretion by Liver Cells

1990 Liver Scholars 100,000 Steven David Lidofsky, MD, PhD University of California, SF California The Role of Growth Factors in Liver Cell Development

1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Betsy T. Kren, PhD University of Minnesota Medical School Minnesota Study of the Genes Involved in the Regeneration of the Liver

1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Michael B. Fallon, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Role of Growth Factors in Regeneration of the Liver

1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Karl P. Houglum, MD University of California, SD California Evaluation of Mechanism of Scarring in the Liver

1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Pamela I. Brown, MD Harvard University / Massachusetts GeneralHospital Massachusetts Role of Growth Factors in the Development and Regeneration of the Liver

1990 Abstract Prizes 500 John D. Bancroft, MD Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati Ohio Regulation of Gene Expression of a Clotting Factor Synthesized in the Liver

1990 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Hans Christian Fromm Dartmouth College New Hampshire Study of the Mechanism of Hepatic Encephalopathy

1990 Liver Scholars 100,000 Andrew Jess Dannenberg, MD Cornell University Medical Center New

Role of Nutritionb in Detoxification of Drug and Environmental Chemicals

in Liver Cells

1990 Liver Scholars 100,000 Clifford A. Brass, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Pennsylvania Study of Mechanisms that will Enhance Organ Preservation

1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Roman M. Janas, PhD Mayo Clinic and Foundation Minnesota Role of the Liver in Metabolizing an ImportantGastrintestinal Hormone

1990 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Lester S. Johnson Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York Use of Mutant Cells to Understand the Metabolism of Nutrients

1990 Abstract Prizes 500 Hiroshi Neda, MD, PhD University of Connecticut School of Medicine Connecticut The Modification of a Virus to Infect Liver Cells

1990 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Cheri A. Hinchman University of Rochester School of Medicine New York Study of the Mechanism of Detoxification of Drugs by Liver Cells

1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Abigail Christiansen, MD University of Wisconsin Hospital Wisconsin Study of the Effect of Bacterial Infection on Bile Output

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Joanne M. Donovan, MD Harvard MedicalSchool, Brigham andWomen's Hospital Massachusetts The Causes of Cholesterol Gallstone Formation

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Michael H. Nathanson, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut How Hormones Influence Bile Formation

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Sue C. Heffelfinger, MD Baylor College of Medicine Texas How Stress Lowers the Liver's Production of Albumin

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Eugene T. Y. Chan, MD University of California, LA California Production and Allocation of Glutathione

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Georges Baffet, PhD Scripps Clinic Research Institute California Study of Hormones Secreted by Liver Tumor Cells

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Richard A. Rippe, PhD University of California, SD California Regulatory Regions in collagen Genes

1989 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Patricia A. Bauman University of Arizona Arizona Gene Expression in Growth Process of Liver Regeneration

1989 Abstract Prizes 500 Karl P. Houglum, MD University of California, SD California The Regulation of Collagen Synthesis

1989 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Nhan V. Trang University of California, SD California Synthesis and Metabolism of Flourescent Non-bile Acids

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Catherine M. Edwards, MD University ofFlorida Florida Cholesterol Metabolismin PBC

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Pierre Haddad, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut How Liver Cells Adjust their Volume to the Environment

1989 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Charles Christian Indiana University School of Medicine Indiana Metabolism of Alcohol andCocaine in the Liver

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Mark Shapiro, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Proteins that Bind to the Hepatitis B Enhancer Gene

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Carl J. Sippel, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Neonatal Development of Protein Responsible for Bile Acid Transport

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Gregory F. Bonner, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut How Lipis Move into Bile

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Nezam Hassan Afdhal, MD Boston University School of Medicine Massachusetts Primary Structure of Gallbladder Mucin

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Karen Harvey-Wilkes, MD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts Tin-protoporphyrin's Function in Preventing Jaundice

1989 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Errol P. Thompson Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Factors Controlling Liver Cell Injury, Repair, and Regrowth

1989 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Seung K. Rhee Johns Hopkins University Maryland Intercellular Communication in the Liver

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Lauren S. Frisch, MD Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts How the Liver Produces a Growth Promoting Substance

1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Thomas G. Brechner, PhD Scripps Clinic Research Institute California Gene Induction in Liver by the Alarm-hormone Interleykin 6

1989 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Andrew Bedford Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts Normal Function of Multi-drug Resistance Gene

1989 Abstract Prizes 500 Shelly A. Grubman, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts A Modulator of RNA Metabolism

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Paul Genecin, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Contributing Factors to the Development of Portal Hypertension

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1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Joan O. Cho, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Functions of Specific Proteins in Liver Cell Compartments

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Michael Schilsky, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Drugs which Protect the Liver Against too Much Copper

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Steven D.Lidofsky, MD University of California, SF California How Alcohol Alters Movement of Proteinsin the Cell

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Steven A. Weinman, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Movement of Chemical Constituents in Isolated Live Cells

1988 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Joel E. Lavine, MD, PhD University ofCalifornia, SD California The Replication of Hepatitis B Virus

1988 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Cliff A. Gronseth Universiety of California, SF California Factors which Regulate Liver Cell Growth

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Steven P. Feitelberg, MD University of California, SD California Which Cells in the Liver Make Scar Tissue?

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Dermot Gleeson, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Regulation of Bicarbonate Movementin Liver Cells

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Mousab Tabbaa, MD Cleveland MetropolitanGeneralHospital Ohio Why Muscles Waste in Patients with Cirrhosis

1988 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Michel-Henry Mendler Universiety of California, LA California Regulation of Glutathione Production in Fetal Rat Liver Cells

1988 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Allexander Soslak Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York How Liver Cells Transport Circulating Materials

1988 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Roberto Mazzanti, MD Tufts University Massachusetts Multiple Drug Resistance in Treating Liver and Other Cancers

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Ingo Marzi, MD University of North Carolina, CH North Carolina A New Approach to Improve Liver Transplantation

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Carl J. Sippel, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Development of Proteins which Carry Bile Acid in the Liver

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Jonathan L. Israel, MD University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania How Liver Tumor Cells Form

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 James Corasanti, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut What Makes Liver Cells Swells

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Mark Philip Callery, MD Washington University School of Medicine Washington Importance of Kupffer Cells in Immune Response

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 William M. Pandak, Jr., MD Medical College of Virginia Virginia Relationships between Cholesterol and Bile Acid in the Liver

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Lawrence F. Braly, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

What Controls the Carriers in Liver Cells for Circulating Plqasma

Constituents?

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Clifford A. Brass, MD< PhD Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Increasing Preservation Period of Donor Lives

1988 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Mona Quiali Indiana University School of Medicine Indiana Genetic Regulation of Alcohol Metabolism in the Liver

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Ulrike Brauneis, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts contractile Properties of Liver Cells

1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Henry A. Pretus, PhD Tulane University Louisiana How Human Kupffer Cells Kill Tumor Cells

1988 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 George C. Daher University of Alabama, Birmingham Alabama How Isolated Rat Liver Handles Drugs

1988 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Martha M. Buck University of California, SD California Importance ofSpecific Tumor Components in Tumor Development

1988 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Keith L. Hines University of Iowa College of Medicine Iowa Effects of Interleukin on Platelet Mechanisms

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Michael Schilsky, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Toxic Effects of Copper on Liver Cells

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 James M. Anderson, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Protein Studies in Pathogenesis ofCholestasis

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Diane Sullivan Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine Massachusetts Studies of Free Calcium in Hepatocytes

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Ramsey C. Cheung, MD Stanford University MedicalCenter California Molecular Biology of Duck Hepatitis Virus

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Steven Weinman, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Studies in bile Formation

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Charles D. Howell, MD University of Colorado Colorado The Immune System's Role in Bile Duct Damage

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Darioush Kavouspour Emory University Hospital Georgia The Effects of CertainChemicals on Heme Synthesis

1987 Abstract Prizes 500 Khazal Paradis, MD University of Minnesota Minnesota The Role of the Kupffer Cell in Liver Transplant Rejection

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Khazal Paradis, MD University of Minnesota Hospitals andClinics Minnesota TheRole of Kupffer Cells in Transplant Rejection

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Peretz Weiss, MD NIH Maryland Hepatic Asialoglycoprotein Receptor Studies

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Michael D. Loveless University of Minnesota Hospitals andClinics Minnesota How the Liver is Damaged in Porphyria Cutanea Tarda

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Patricia Ganey, MD University of North Carolina North Carolina Hepatic Toxicity of Certain drugs

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Elizabeth A. Pomfret Boston University school of Medicine Massachusetts Effects of Choline Deficiency in Methotrexate Chemotherapy

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Miya Shanahan Veterans Administration Medical Center, SD, CA California Fluid Movement in the Biliary System

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Edwin F. Simpser, MD Cornell University Medical Center New York Protein Kinase C and Newborn Liver Function

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Edward M. Cox, Jr. NIH Maryland Molecular Studies of the Hepatitis A Virus

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Christine M. Hunt, MD MedicalCollege of Virginia Virginia Pathogenesis of Liver Cancers

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Mark S. Meskin University of Southern California School of Medicine California The Mechanism of Aluminum Induced Liver Cholestasis

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Jose C. Fernandez-Checa, PhD University of California, LA California Effects of Alcohol on Glutathione

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Joel E. Lavine, MD, PhD University of California, SF California Effects of Vidarabine on Hepatitis Virus

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Parvathi Mohan, MD Children's Hospital, Philadelphia Pennsylvania How Glutathione Protects the Developing Liver

1987 Liver Scholar 90,000 Jerome Zeldis, MD, PhD University of California, Davis California The Influence of Hepatitis Viruses on Hemopoiesis

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Lisa A. Freed University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Composition of Gallstone Pathogenesis

1987 Abstract Prizes 500 Michael J. P. Arthur, MRCP University of California, SF California Kupffer Cells, Leukotriene B4 and Oxygen-derived Free Radicals

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Francis E. Murray, MD, MRCPI Boston University Medical Center Massachusetts Gallbladder Mucin's Role in Gallstone Formation

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 D. Paul Oursler Johns Hopkins University Maryland Effects of Ethanol on Glutathione

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Deirdre Woods Shriners Burn Institute Ohio The Mechanism ofToxic Liver Injury

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Jeffrey R. Merrill University of California, SD California Metabolism of a Specific Bile Acid

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Irene L. Ren University of California, Wadsworth VA Medical Center California Radioimmunoassay for Hepatic Tocopherol Binding Prfotein

1987 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Kelly P. Coleman University of Colorado School of Medicine Colorado How Bile Acids are Transported in the Liver

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 Douglas Dean Dalke, MD University of Nebraska Medical Center Nebraska Alcohol andGrowth Factor Uptake by Liver Cells

1987 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000 James S. Morgan, Jr., MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Portal Hypertension Due to Schistosomiasis

1986 Abstract Prizes 500 Mark J. Czaja, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Genetic Basis of Wilson' s Disease

1986 Abstract Prizes 500 Jose B. Chinale, MD university of Michigan Michigan Drug Metabolism in the Liver

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

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1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 10,000

1986 Student Research Fellowship 1,500

1986 Student Research Fellowship 1,500

1986 Student Research Fellowship 1,500

1986 Student Research Fellowship 1,500

1986 Student Research Fellowship 1,500

1986 Student Research Fellowship 1,500

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Kevin P. Block, PhD Medical University of South Carolina South Carolina Degradation of Branched-chain Amino Acids in Cirrhosis

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Nazzareno Ballatori, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut The Role of GSH in Toxic Chemical Metabolism and Bile Formation

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 David A. Geller Northwestern University Medical School New York The Binding Affinity of Calcium for Individual Bile Salts

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 John R. Lake, MD University of California School of Medicine, SF California Studies in Bile Formation and Endocytosis

1985 Abstract Prizes 500 Glenn R. Gourley, MD University of Wisconsin Wisconsin

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 David Rubinstein, MBBS University of Texas HSC, Dallas Texas Immune Functions in Human Liver Cells

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Jacquelyn J. Maher, MD University of California, SF California Studies in Laminin, Liver Function, and Cirrhosis

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 John Polio, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Measurement Techniques for Varicose Veins of the Esophagus

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Charles F. Gholson, MD University of Colorado HSC Colorado

Immunological Response to Hepatitis B Genes and the Viral Proteins They

Produce

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Linda Clayton School of Medicine, University of California, SD California Studies in the Metabolism of Bile Acids

1985 Abstract Prizes 500 Ilan Tur-Kaspa, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 John A. Rice Tufts University School of Medicine Massachusetts The Effects of Hormones and other Chemicals on Liver Endothelial Cells

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Steven A. Jenison, MD University of North Carolina, CH North Carolina Techniques for Measuring Hepatitis B Virus in Saliva and Semen

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Michael Loveless College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota Minnesota The Role of Iron and Porphyrin in PCT Liver Cell Injury

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Peter A. Kouides Upstate College of Medicine, State University of NY, Syracuse New York Dietary Factors in the Development and Severity of Liver Diseases

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 David S. Raiford, MD The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Maryland The Effects of Alcohol on the Synthesis of Glutathione

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Marquelle J. Klooster, MD Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati Ohio Nutrition and Chronic Liver Disease in Children

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 David L. Williams, PhD School of Medicine, Tulane University Medical Center Louisiana Testing New Treatments for Liver Cancer

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Lyman E. Bilhartz, MD Southwestern Medical School of University of Texas HSC, Dallas Texas Cholesterol, Polyunsaturated Fats, and Gallstone Formation

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Silvia D. Degli Esposti, MD Rhode Island Hospital / Brown University Rhode Island The Role of Immune Factors in Sclerosing Cholangitis

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Harry A. Cynamon, MD University of Texas HSC, Dallas Texas Fat Abnormalities in Childhood Liver Disease

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Peter G. Traber, MD Northwestern School of Medicine New York Brain Swelling in fulminant Failure of the Liver

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Richard L Maenza University of Connecticut Health Center Connecticut Counteracting Harmful Effects of Anti-cancer Drugs on Liver Cells

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Francis R. Weiner, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York The Collagen Gene and Predisposition to Alcoholic Cirrhosis

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Mark J. Czaja, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Gene Studies to Determine the Cause of Wilson's Disease

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Jeffrey M. Berman College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Factors Affecting the Rate at Which Gallstones Dissolve

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Robert Denio Baker, Jr., MD, PhD Children's Hospital, Boston Massachusetts Liver Cell Types and Regulation of Protein Production

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Timothy Charles Johnson Indiana University Medical Center, School of Medicine Indiana Studies of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase in Alcoholic Liver Disease

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Cynthia S. Brown Stanford University School of Medicine California The Effect of Growth Factors in Controlling Cholesterol Metabolism

1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Jose B. Chinale, MD University of Michigan Michigan The Role of Liver Enzyme P450 in Drug Detoxification

1985 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Kurt Foxton Upstate Medical Center, State University of NY, Syracuse New York Rat Studies in the Progress of Cirrhosis

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Daniel J. Smith, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Functions of Liver Lobule Parts and Reactions to Alcohol

1984 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Clement Luming Ren University of California at LA School of Medicine California The Transport of Glutathione from the Liver Cell

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 John R. Lake, MD University of California School of Medicine, SF California The Role of Vesicle Movement in Bile Formation

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD University of Minnesota Hospitals Minnesota The Roles of Pituitary Hormones in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Production

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Richard H. Moseley, MD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Pathways for Excretion of Specific Bile Components

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Frederick C. Johlin, Jr., MD University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Iowa Studies in the Liver-toxic Effects of Methotrexate

1984 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Michael L.Grossbard Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Transport and Uptake Processes in Normal Liver Metabolism

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Mark L. Berger, MD University of Texas HSC, Dallas Texas How Arachidonis Acid Protects Liver Cells from Damage

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Albert Bruce Knapp, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School Massachusetts

Uptake of Biological Compouns by Liver Cell Surface Membrance Receptor

Proteins

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Vinod K. Rustgi, MD Stanford University School of Medicine California

A Human Liver Cell Culture Model for Studying Regulation of Cholesterol

Secretion into Blood and Bile

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Richard S. Aycock, MD University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences Tennessee Factors in Collagen Production and Their Role in Cirrhosis

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Gregory J. Gores, MD Mayo Clinic & Foundation Minnesota The Role of Cholecystokinin in Liver Metabolism

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Andrew Stolz, MD University of California at LA School of Medicine California

The Role of Bile Acid Binding Proteins in Bile Acid Transport and

Detoxification

1984 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Arthur Z. Zelent The Mountj Sinai School of Medicine New York

Artificial Systems for Studying the Life Cycle of the Hepatitis B Virus and its

Role in Liver Damage and Disease.

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Steven Raper, MD University of California School of Medicine, SF California Studies in the Regeneration of Liver Tissue

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 John C. Bucuvalas, MD Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati Ohio Effects of Amino Acids on Bile Acid and Infant TPN-associated Cholestasis

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 David H. Perlmutter, MD Children's Hospital Corporation, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Processing and Secretion of Plasma Proteins in the Liver

1984 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Theodore A. Stein, MD Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center New York Potential Inhibitors of Enzymes that Initiate Fat Synthesis

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Harry A. Cynamon, MD The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston Texas Treating Fat Abnormalities in Children with BiliaryAtresia

1984 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Kenneth Michael Peters University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor Michigan The Role of Dimethyl Prostaglandin E2 in Preventing Cirrhosis

1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Francis R. Weiner, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

Collagen Gene Abnormalities and the Effects of Estradiol in Alcoholic

Cirrhosis

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1984 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 David P. Sundin University of Colorado School of Medicine Colorado Binding, Transport, and Secretion of Immunoglobulin A

1984 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Adrienne R. Takacs (Lauhoff) University of Kentucky School of Medicine Kentucky The Mechanism of Estrogen-induced Cholestasis

1983 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Paul Shapiro University of California at San Diego California

Isolation of a cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase Substrates from Growing

Hepatocytes

1983 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Michael L. Grossbard Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

Identification of Certain Bilirubin-protein Complexes, and the Comparative

Physiology of Bili-proteins

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 James R. L. Moore, MD University Hospital, Boston Massachusetts Regulation of Mucin Secretion in Experimental Cholelithiasis

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Tat-Kin Tsang, MD Northwestern University Medical School New York Beta-glucuronidase in Bile in the Pathogenesis of Pigment Gallstones

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Mark E. Mailliard, MD University of Nebraska Medical Center Nebraska

Influence of Ethanol Administration on Hepatic Glycoprotein Secretion and

Subcellular Retention

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Dorothy Irene Whitmer, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Membrance Transport and Conjugation of Bilirubin in Hepatocytes

1983 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Laura Dember University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Ohio

Influence of Bile Acid Structure on Uptake by Basolateral Liver Plasma

Membrane Vesicles

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Piet C. De Groen, MD Mayo Clinic Minnesota The Turnover of Lysosomal Glycosidases of Rat Liver

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Andrew Stolz, MD University of California at Los Angeles California Characterization of a Newly Identified Group of Hepatic Binding Proteins

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 John Pottage, MD Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center New York Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis Studies

1983 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Dale B.Schenk University of California, SD California Affinity Pourification of Rate Liver (Na+, K+)-ATPase

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Leslie S. Leighton, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Study of Bile Salt Detergency and Biliary Lipis Secretion

1983 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Mark A. Goldsmith University of California, SF California Membrane-associated Changes During Intrahepatic Cholestasis

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 David H.Perlmutter, MD Children's Hospital Corp Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Hepatic Biosynthesis, Processing and Secretion of Plasma Proteins

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 William M. Belknap, MD Children's Hospital Research Foundat;ion, Cincinnati Ohio Study of Bile Acid Binding to Cytosolic Proteins in Developing Rat Livedr

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Kevin D. Mullen, MD Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital Ohio Branched-chain Amino Acid Metabolism and Protein Turnover in Cirrhosis

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Jerome B. Zeldis, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts

The Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Virus Induced Chronic Hepatitis and

Hepatocellular Carcinoma

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Shinji Iida, MD Kingsbridge Research Foundation, Inc., NY New York

Purification and Characterization of an Ethanol Induced Hepatic

Cytochrome P-450

1983 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Craig Jones University of California, SD California Thermodynamic Phase System Models for Bile Salts, Sodium, and Calcium

1983 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Michelle Wilson University of Iowa Iowa Cell Cycle Specificity of Hepatic Stimulator Substance

1983 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Frank Joseph Puma, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester Massachusetts Study of Regulation of Hepatic Gene Expression

1982 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Dwaine L. Thiele, MD Southwestern Medical School, Dallas Texas Ways the Monocyte Works in Immune Regulating and Diseases

1982 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Rebecca W. Van Dyke, MD University of California at San Francisco California The Role of NaK ATPase in Bile Secretion and Liver Diseases

1982 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Christopher K. Glass University of California at San Diego California How Cholesterol is Taken Up By the Liver Cell

1982 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Ronald J. Sokol, MD Children's Hospital, Cincinnati Ohio Vitamin E (-tocopherol_ in Cholestatic Liver Disease

1982 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Charles M. Zacks Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Sodium's Role in Related Transport of Bile Acid and a Dye, BSP

1982 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Francis S. Heinemann, MD University of Connecticut Health Center Connecticut Liver Cytochrome p-450s-effects of drugs and diseases

1982 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Bruce E. Reidenberg Cornell University Medical College New York The Molecular Basis of Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

1982 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Sol N. Mora, MD Cornell University Medical College New York Brain Ammonia Metabolism and the Role of Branched Chain Amino Acids

1982 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Michael R. Galambos Emory University School of Medicine Georgia Determining if Fibrosis is Occuring During a Disease Process

1982 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Ira Steven Goldman, MD University of California at San Francisco California How Liver Diseases Alter the Cytoskeleton and Cell Function

1982 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Heeja Yoo-Warren, MD Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Ohio Isolation and Characterization of an Important Hepatic Gene

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Rebecca W. Van Dyke, MD University of California at San Francisco California Role of the Sodium Pump in Bile Secretion

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Alan D. Attie, PhD University of California at San Diego California Transport of Low Density Lipoproteins by the Liver

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Bruce A. Luxon, MD, PhD University of Missouri HSC Missouri Mathematical Analysis for Description of Hepatic Uptake of Organic Anions

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Dwaine L. Thiele, MD University of Texas Health Sciences Center , Dallas Texas Kupffer Cell Immunology

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Scott Hutton, MD University of Minnesota Hospitals Minnesota Effect of Sphincterotomy on Gallstone Formation

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Graham F. Barnard, MD, PhD Stanford University California Mechanism of Removal of Fat Particles by the Liver

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 George Y. Wu, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Role of a Synthesized Amino Acid of Collagen in Liver Fibrosis

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Alan E. Williams, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut Role of RJ Antigen in Non A Non B Viral Hepatiis

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Bruce R. Bacon, MD Case Western Reserve University Ohio Mechanisms of IronToxicity in the Liver

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Hilary Umans Rockefeller University New York Toxicity of Opiates andAlcoholin Newborn Infants

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Charles M.Zacks Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Michael Bednar University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Evaluation of the Effecxt of Increased Pressure in the BiliarySystem

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Steven Kozmary University of California at San Diego California Metabolism of Bile Acid Designed to be Resistant toHepatic Conjugation

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Michael Md Devitt Case Western Reserve University Ohio Nutrition and Fatty Acid Synthase in the Liver

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Mack Mitchell, MD Vanderbilt University MedicalSchool Tennessee Effects of Ethanol on Hepatic Drug Metabolism

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Barry Aprison Brandeis University Massachusetts

Molecular Mechanisms by which Liver Parenchymal Cell Morphology

Influences Hormonal Factor

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Gene D. LeSage, MD St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, MN Minnesota Role of Hepatocyte Lysosomes in Biliary Iron Excretion

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Thomas Zysset, PhD University of Colorado HSC Colorado Effect of Ethanol on Structure and Function of Liver Surface Membranes

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 William Spivak, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts Study of Formation of Pigment Gallstones

1981 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Frederick J. Suchy, MD Children's Hospital MedicalCenter, Cincinnati Ohio Mechanism of Changes in Bile Flow and Composition During Development

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Robert Cionni Children's Hospital ResearchFoundation, Cincinnati Ohio Caffeine Metabolism During Early Life

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Year Type of Award

Amount

of Award Name of Award Recipient Institution at time of award State Title of Funded Project Topic1 Mentor Honoree Funding

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Fred Samuels Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York Regulation of Glycoprotein Formation in the Regenerating Liver

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 David Williams Tulane University Louisiana Development of Experimental Model for Alcoholic Hepatitis

1981 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Sandra Horlick University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Role of Calcium in the Formation of Pegment Gallstones

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Robert Scott Ross Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Bruce A. Luxon University of Missouri Health Sciences Center Missouri

1980 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Alan D. Attie, PhD University of California at San Diego California

1980 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Adrian Reuben, SSc, MBBS, MRCP Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

1980 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Scot W. Hutton, MD University of Minnesota Minnesota

1980 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 George Y. Wu, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York

1980 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Richard A. Weisiger, MD, PhD Unioversity of California at San Francico California

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 David Easter Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Linda Jean Clark University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Sanford S. Zweifach University of California at San Diego California

1980 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Frederick J. Suchy, MD Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati Ohio

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Anthony G. Dilella Northestern Ohio University Ohio

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Raymond N. Dubois, Jr. Southwestern Medical School, Texas Texas

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Shakuntala V. Advani University of Southern California California

1980 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7,500 Jeffrey K. Klingenstein, MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Scott D. Pencil Case Western Reserve University Ohio

1980 Student Research Fellowship 1,500 Francis S. Heinemann University of Connecticut Health Center Connecticut