2022 AASLD FOUNDATION DDW ABSTRACT AWARD RECIPIENTS

AASLD Foundation Abstract Awards recognize excellence and promote the professional development of early career investigators.

 

Congratulations to this year’s investigators who will present their award-winning abstracts at Digestive Disease Week^® May 21-24, 2022.

 

AASLD Foundation Abstract Award in Healthcare Disparities Research

 

Aaron Yeoh, MD   

Stanford University Hospital

Abstract Title: AMONG A NATIONAL COHORT OF U.S. VETERANS WITH METABOLIC DYSFUNCTION ASSOCIATED FATTY LIVER DISEASE (MAFLD), HISPANICS AND AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKA NATIVES HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER RISK OF CIRRHOSIS AT TIME OF MAFLD DIAGNOSIS

Mentor: Robert Wong, MD, MS

 

AASLD Foundation FELLOW Abstract Awards

 

Mrigya Babuta, PhD        

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

Abstract Title: LIVER FIBROSIS IS ACCELERATED BY ALCOHOL BINGES IN MURINE NASH VIA NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME ACTIVATION, PYROPTOSIS AND NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION

Mentor: Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD, FAASLD, AGAF, FACP

 

Adam Buckholz, MD       

New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medical College

Abstract Title: ACCURATE PREDICTION MODELING OF SIX-WEEK MORTALITY AMONG PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS PRESENTING WITH PORTAL HYPERTENSIVE BLEEDING: CALIBRATION AND EXTERNAL VALIDATION USING A MULTI-CENTER U.S. COHORT

Mentor: Brett Fortune, MD, MSc

 

Lixian Chen, PhD  

Indiana University

Abstract Title: INHIBITION OF TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA 1 (TGFβ1) BY VIVO-MORPHOLINO (VM) AMELIORATES CHOLESTASIS IN THE MDR2-/- MOUSE MODEL OF PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS (PSC)

Mentor: Heather Francis, PhD

 

Souradipta Ganguly, PhD

University of California, San Diego

Abstract Title: FUNCTIONAL DEFECTS IN MACROPHAGES ACCELERATE NASH-HCC IN MICE LACKING TREM2

Mentor: David Brenner, MD; Debanjan Dhar, PhD

 

Cynthia Hsu, MD, PhD    

University of California, San Diego

Abstract Title: INTESTINAL VIROME IN PATIENTS WITH ALCOHOL USE DISORDER AND AFTER ABSTINENCE

Mentor: Bernd Schnabl, MD

 

Garrett Kang, MBBS (NUS), MRCP (UK), MMED (NUS)     

Changi General Hospital

Abstract Title: REAL-WORLD VALIDATION OF NON-INVASIVE PLATELET AND ELASTOGRAPHY CRITERIA TO PREDICT LIVER DECOMPENSATION IN COMPENSATED ADVANCED CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE PATIENTS - AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY

Mentor: Yu Jun Wong, FRCP (Edin), MMed (NUS), MD (UKM)

 

Hyunseok Kim, MD, MPH, PhD 

Baylor College of Medicine

Abstract Title: PROGNOSIS AND CLINICAL CORRELATES OF OUTCOMES IN U.S. PATIENTS WITH INDETERMINATE PHASE CHRONIC HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION

Mentor: Fasiha Kanwal, MD, MSHS

 

Cyriac Abby Philips MD, DM     

The Liver Institute, Rajagiri Hospital, Kerala, India

Abstract Title: CLINICAL OUTCOMES AND GUT MICROBIOME CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH DOSE PROBIOTIC INFUSION THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH ALCOHOL-ASSOCIATED HEPATITIS – COMPARISONS WITH CORTICOSTEROIDS AND FECAL TRANSPLANTATION

 

Andy Tien, MD, MS         

Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

Abstract Title: INCIDENCE AND OUTCOMES OF COVID-19 IN POST-LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS AFTER COVID-19 VACCINATION IN A LARGE INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Mentor: Amandeep Sahota, MD, MS

 

Karn Wijarnpreecha, MD, MPH

University of Michigan

Abstract Title: HIGHER PREVALENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AMONG LEAN VERSUS NON-LEAN PATIENTS WITH NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE DESPITE LOWER PREVALENCE OF ATHEROGENIC RISK AND METABOLIC DISEASES

Mentor: Anna S.F. Lok, MD

 

Alexander Yang, MD, MS and Bilal Asif, MD 

University of Maryland and National Institutes of Health

Abstract Title: ALCOHOLIC STEATOSIS: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LIPIDS

Mentor: Theo Heller, MD

 

Tianhao Zhou, PhD

Indiana University

Abstract Title: INHIBITION OF IL-33/ST2 SIGNALING REDUCES MAST CELL (MC)-INDUCED BILIARY DAMAGE AND PHENOTYPES OF PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS (PSC) IN MDR2-/- MICE

Mentor: Heather Francis, PhD

 

Special Mentions

AASLD Foundation would like to additionally recognize the following investigator for excellence in hepatology research submitted to Digestive Disease Week who received the DDW Basic Science Travel Award.

Chaowapong Jarasvaraparn, MD

Washington University in St. Louis

Abstract Title: MACROPHAGE-RESTRICTED KNOCKOUT OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL PYRUVATE CARRIER REDUCES LIVER INFLAMMATION AND FIBROSIS IN A MOUSE MODEL OF NASH

Mentor: Brian Finck, PhD