Comprehensive Liver Research Center at UCLA

Liver Team

Meet our expert team

More than 65 National Institutes of Health-funded researchers and clinicians are currently part of the center — including basic, clinical, and community-based investigators at UCLA as well as their counterparts at the City of Hope in Duarte, CA, and sister institutions UC Irvine and UC Davis.

Thank you to all our speakers and attendees

Our Inaugural Comprehensive Liver Research Center Symposium was the first of many events to come designed to foster collaborations, learn from scientific experts who conduct liver- and metabolism-related research from around the world, highlight current collaborations and research at UCLA, and promote the work of our junior researchers.

Group Photo - Inaugural Comprehensive Liver Research Center Symposium
AASLD Abstracts 2024

AASLD 2024 Abstracts

Members of the Comprehensive Liver Research Center and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA present their latest research at AASLD The Liver Meeting on November 15-19 in San Diego, CA.

Latest news

Drs. Richard Finn and Aldons Lusis
Tamer  Sallam, MD, PhD

Study finds targeting inflammation may not help reduce liver fibrosis in MAFLD

“Liver fibrosis is the critical feature that creates chronic liver disease and liver cancer. If we can keep fibrosis in check then we can meaningfully impact liver disease,” said Tamer Sallam, MD, PhD.

Carrie R. Wong, MD, PhD

Over 4 million US adults with chronic liver disease can be grouped into unique risk groups based on barriers to care

Dr. Carrie R. Wong, the study's lead author on these findings published in the peer-reviewed PLOS ONE, point to the need for interventions aimed at reducing possibly avoidable hospitalizations among the highest-risk people with chronic liver disease.