Project:  Potential Screening Test for Biliary Atresia

Investigator:  Sanjiv Harpavat, M.D., Ph.D.

 

ROI:

• 2015 BCM Pilot Award from the Caroline Wiess Law Fund for Research in Molecular Medicine

($30K/yr - 1 year)

 

• 2015 AASLD Jan Albrecht Clinical and Translational Research Award in Liver Disease

($75K/yr - 2 years)

 

• NIH K23 Training Grant

($150K/yr - 5 years)

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• TCH GI Pilot Grant

($15K/yr - 1 year)

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Publications:

• Simple Blood Test Developed to Screen for Life Threatening Liver Disease

click on pdf for NEJM article (Aug. 11, 2016)

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• P2X3 purinergic receptor overexpression is associated with poor recurrence-free survival in hepatocellular carcinoma patients

click on pdf for Oncotarget article (December 2015)

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• P2Y2 purinergic receptor activation is essential for efficient hepatocyte proliferation in response to partial hepatectomy

click on pdf for Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol article (December 2014)​​

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• Cardiomyopathy reverses with recovery of liver injury, cholestasis and cholanemia in mouse model of biliary fibrosis

click on pdf for Liver International article (​April 2015)

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