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Description
USC Research Center for Liver Diseases is an NIH sponsored Digestive Disease Core Center. The goal is to facilitate and attract young and established scientists to digestive disease-related research through the provision of needed laboratory core facilities, educational enrichment programs and support of pilot/feasibility projects.
Research
The scientific research base consists of approximately forty NIH funded scientists working on one of four major themes:- Cell biology, signal transduction and transport
- Viral hepatitis and liver cancer
- Liver injury (hepatotoxicity, inflammation and fibrosis)
- Metabolism and gene expression