Comprehensive Liver Research Center at UCLA

Liver research
Save the Date Liver Research Center Symposium

Save the Date - October 11

The Inaugural UCLA Comprehensive Liver Research Center Symposium is an annual, full-day event 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. Registration and call for abstracts will open soon.

State-of-the-art research cores

Supporting the groundbreaking work conducted in the center are state-of-the-art research cores. The Administrative Core, Human MASLD Core, Mouse Integrative Genetics and Phenotyping Core, and Liver Spatial Omics Core are efficient and provide services at economy-of-scale. 

Liver Cores
Total MASLD

UCLA receives $1.5M in seed funds to launch 'Total MASLD' research

The mission of the Comprehensive Liver Research Center at UCLA is to understand every aspect of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) as it relates to the diverse population of Los Angeles County; at UCLA, we call this 'Total MASLD.' 

Latest News

Jihane Benhammou in the laboratory

Jihane N. Benhammou, MD, PhD, receives seed grant for hepatocellular carcinoma research project

Dr. Benhammou was awarded a seed grant from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation to study The Impact of Statins on Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Study principal investigators.

UCLA scientists receive $9.1 million from the NCI to improve early detection methods for cancer

A liquid biopsy is a promising non-invasive medical test using a small volume of blood that gives scientists insight into the genetic makeup of tumors.

Nuria Martinez-Lopez, PhD

UCLA study links fasting to mitochondrial splitting

In the study published in June, scientists examined the livers of mice that had been starved and identified the activated proteins, said Nuria Martinez-Lopez, PhD, the paper’s first author. They found that proteins in the mTORC2 cellular signaling pathway – known to be related to cell growth and metabolism – were activated by fasting.