MASLD Research Center Collaborators
The MASLD Research Center brings together multiple specialties and specialists at UC San Diego School of Medicine and elsewhere:
| Claude Sirlin, MD | Professor of Radiology and Director of Liver Imaging Group, Department of Radiology, UC San Diego |
| Xinlian Zhang, PhD | Assistant Professor in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, UC San Diego |
| Ronald Evans, PhD | Professor and Head of the Gene Expression Laboratory, and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| Christopher Glass, MD, PhD | Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Professor of Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine |
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Joseph L Witztum, MD |
Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, UC San Diego |
| Marc Hellerstein, MD, PhD | Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology, UC Berkeley |
| Tatiana Kisseleva, MD, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, UC, San Diego (Provides expertise on pre-clinical studies in MASH and MASH-related fibrosis). |
| David Brenner, MD | Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, Dean of the School of Medicine and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, UC San Diego |
| Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD | Professor of Medicine, Deputy Director, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center |
| Sheldon Morris, MD, MPH | Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health, UC San Diego |
| Sonia Jain, PhD | Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, Division of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, UC San Diego |
| Jeremiah D Momper, PharmD, PhD | Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego |
| Naga Chalasani, MD | David W. Crabb Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University |
| Mark S Sulkowski, MD | Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Trials, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University |
| William O'Brien | Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Jeffrey Schwimmer, MD | Professor of Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and the Director of the Fatty Liver Clinic at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego |
| Cynthia Behling, MD, PhD | Associate Physician, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego |
| Bernd Schnabl, MD | Professor of Medicine in Gastroenterology, UC San Diego and the Director of the San Diego Digestive Diseases Research Center |
| Lars Eckmann, MD | Professor of Medicine in Gastroenterology, UC San Diego and the Co-Director of the San Diego Digestive Diseases Research Center |
| Rob Knight, PhD | Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation and Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego |
| Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD | Director of the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School |
| Xin Tu, PhD | Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science, UC San Diego |
| Jack Gilbert, PhD | Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego |
| Richard Ehman, MD | Professor of Radiology in the Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Mayo Clinic |
| Emelia Benjamin, MD | Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University |
| Michael Karin, PhD | Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Ben and Wanda Hildyard Chair for Mitochondrial and Metabolic Diseases, UC San Diego |
| Karen Nelson, PhD | President, J. Craig Venter Institute |
| Ariel Feldstein, MD | Chief of Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics and at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego |
| Edward Dennis, PhD | Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry and Biochemistry, director of LIPID MAPS Consortium |
| Larry Smarr, PhD | Founding Director of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering |
| Nicholas Schork, PhD | Professor of Human Biology, J. Craig Venter Institute, UC San Diego |
| Siddharth Singh, MD | Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, UC San Diego |
| Shankar Subramaniam, PhD | Associate Director, Institute of Engineering In Medicine and Professor, Bioengineering, UC San Diego |
| Mark Valasek, MD, PhD | Associate Professor of Pathology, UC San Diego |
| Daniel Huang, MD | Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore |