Liver Academy at KI

The Liver Academy Seminar series

The Liver Academy at KI is a network that aims to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds to enhance collaborations, enable networking and interaction, especially among junior scientists. Among other things, we are organizing a seminar series, intended to increase interaction between clinicians and basic scientists. If you like to give a talk at the seminar series, or at another occasion, get in touch!

Seminars, spring 2024

Time: 12:00-13:00

The Liver Academy seminars is held roughly every month on different weekdays. 

Seminars are held in a hybrid format. Sandwiches and coffee are provided on a first-come basis to those attending in person.  

25 January

Speaker 1: Axel Wester, MD, PhD

Title: Emulating a target trial of GLP1 agonists in patients with chronic liver disease.

Speaker 2: Benedikt Strunz, MD, PhD

Title:  Pregnancy-associated modulation of T cell immunity in vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus infection.

Venue: Von Behring, floor 9, ANA Futura, Flemingsberg and online via Zoom. Join the Zoom meeting.

Hosts: Hannes Hagström & Annika Niehrs

21 February

Speaker: Dr. Oliver Burk, Translational Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Co-Head of research group: Drug Transport and Nuclear Receptors, Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology & University of Tübingen, Germany

Title: "Pregnane X receptor modulates hepatic sphingolipid and phospholipid metabolism"

Venue: This seminar is held in Zoom. Please, click the link to join the seminar.

Host: Volker Lauschke, KI.

18 March

Speaker: Rebecca Wells, MD, PhD, Gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering in the Faculty of the Center for Engineering Mechanobiology at UPenn, Philadelphia

Title: "Damage and repair in the fetal and neonatal extrahepatic bile duct: implications for biliary atresia"

Venue: Nils Ringertz room, ground floor, Biomedicum, Solna.

Host: Noémi Van Hul, KI.

22 April

Speaker 1: Ghada Nouairia, Postdoc, Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH)

Title: "Using Proteomics to distinguish gallbladder cancer from benign cholecystitis preoperatively"

Speaker 2: Olav Rooyackers, CLINTEC Anesthesiology

Title: “Oxidized albumin”

Venue: ANA Futura, Lagerlöf, floor 4 inside the library, Flemingsberg and online via Zoom. Click to join the Zoom meeting.

Hosts: Christina Villard & Uwe Tietge

23 May