Comprehensive Liver Research Center at UCLA
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.
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
Beyond the Scope highlights the Comprehensive Liver Research Center
The new UCLA Comprehensive Liver Research Center brings to bear the expertise from throughout the Division of Digestive Diseases and the UCLA campus in a coordinated effort to tackle one of the major public health issues we face in Southern California and as a nation: the growing prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD).
Two center members named among the world's most influential researchers
The annual Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by Calivate identified Drs. Richard S. Finn and Aldons J. "Jake" Lusis scholars who have authored multiple studies that rank in the top 1% in the number of scholarly citations worldwide.
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.