An interdisciplinary Liver Research Center was established at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1974 with support from NIDDK. The major objective is to understand fundamental mechanisms of normal liver function, and alterations in these functions resulting from metabolic disorders genetic diseases, acute and chronic liver injury, hepatitis virus infection, hepatic fibrosis and liver cancer, as well as to develop ways to overcome these abnormalities using state-of-the-art methods of genetic engineering, gene therapy and liver cell transplantation.
Dr. David A. Shafritz, Director