2008 ARPKD/CHF Alliance Research Grant Award

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The ARPKD/CHF Alliance has awarded Dr. Rebecca Wells, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology) and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a research grant award of $50,000 to study a central issue, the fundamental pathway and mechanism of liver fibrosis, focusing on non-inflammatory fibrosis, unique to CHF.  Such research results are critical to therapies and may have implications for other liver diseases.

The title of her project is: TGF-B Signaling and Cell-Cell Interactions in Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis

The ARPKD/CHF Alliance received 10 Letters of Intent, and four excellent, full research proposals upon invitation, reviewed by our Research Committee utilizing NIH Gold Standard Criteria. 

Liver fibrosis and its complications are increasingly important as individuals with ARPKD/CHF grow older and survive beyond the neonatal period.