Dr. Hamza Yazdani 2022 CLA Research Grant Recipient
On behalf of the Community Liver Alliance and its Board of Directors, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 5th Annual Community Liver Alliance Research Grant is Hamza Yazdani, MD from the University of Pittsburgh Dept of Surgery for his research proposal “Exercise Preconditions the Liver against Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury”.
Research is an important part of the Community Liver Alliance mission and we are proud to be able to invest in scientists and their research projects. Our hope though this investment is to continue to inspire new therapies, treatments, and cures for liver diseases.
Questions about the CLA Research Grant Program? Contact us at (412) 501-3CLA (3252) or contact Amy Logston at amy@communityliveralliance.org.
Previous Research Grant Recipients
2021 – Dr. Hossam Abdelsamed
Epigenetic Programming in Liver Transplant Patients: A Novel tool to discover non-invasive biomarkers and understand liver tolerance mechanisms.
2020 – Samer Tohme, MD
Mechanisms of Metastatic Progression after Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion.
2019 – Dr. Tirthadipa (Dipa) Pradhan-Sundd, PhD
Molecular mechanism of sickle cell hepatic crisis.
2018 – Allan Tsung, MD
Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Nash-Related Hepatocellular Carcin
