Mark A. Zern, M.D.

Clinical/Research Interests

Mark Zern earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Harvard University. He joined UC Davis as Professor of Medicine, Director, Transplant Research Institute, and as the first recipient of the Fred and Pat Anderson Family Endowed Chair in Transplant Research. A researcher and active clinical hepatologist for 30 years, Zern is the editor of two books and the author of more than 120 publications. He has received continuous funding from NIH since 1979. He is a nationally and internationally recognized authority in the areas of liver fibrosis, liver gene therapy and liver stem cell biology. He has been the Chair of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at two institutions, chaired an NIH study section, the Grants Review Committee of the American Liver Foundation, and the Liver Task Force of the Alpha-1 Foundation. He is presently the President of the International Study Group for Stem Cell Therapy.

Title:

Professor

Specialty:

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Internal Medicine

Address:

UC Davis Medical Center
2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817

Phone:

(916) 734-2737

Education:

Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
M.D. 1975

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A.B. 1969

Internships:

Cambridge Hospital
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1975-1976

Residency:

Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
1977-1978

Cambridge Hospital
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1976-1977

Fellowships:

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York
1979-1982
Hepatology

Tufts-New England Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
1978-1979
Gastroenterology

Board Certifications:

American Board of Internal Medicine, 1978

Professional Memberships:

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
American Society of Clinical Investigation
International Association for the Study of the Liver

Select Recent Publications:

Kim T-H, Venugopal SK, Zhu M, Wang S-S, Lau D, Lam Ks, Clemens DL, Zern MA. A novel small molecule, LAS-0811, inhibits alcohol-induced apoptosis in VL-17A cells. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 379:876-881; 2009.

Zern, MA. Cell transplantation to replace whole liver transplantation. Gastroenterology 136:767-769; 2009.

Tatsukawa H, Fukaya Y, Frampton G, Martinez-Fuentes A, Suzuki K, Kuo TF, Nagstsuma K, Shimokado K, Okuno M, Wu J, lismaa S, Matsuura T, Tsukamoto H, Zern MA, Graham RM, Kojima S. Role of transglutaminase 2 in liver injury via cross-linking and silencing of transcription factor Sp1. Gastroenterology 136:1783-1795; 2009.

Jones CN, Tuleuova N, Lee JY, Ramanculov E, Reddi AH, Zern MA, Revzin A. Hepatocyte growth factor microarrays induce and maintain differentiated phenotype in primary rat hepatocytes. Biomaterials 30:3733-3741; 2009.

Lee JY, Tuleuova N, Jones CN, Ramanculov E, Zern MA, Revzin A. Directing hepatic differentiation of embryonic stem cells with protein microarray-bassed co-cultures. Integrative Biology 1:437-488; 2009.

Jones CN, Lee JY, Stybayeva GS, Zern MA, Revzin A. Multifunctional protein microarrays for cultivation of cells and immunodetection of secreted cellular products. Anal. Chem 80:6351-6357; 2008.

Ma X, Duan Y, Jung CJ, Wu J, VandeVoort CA, Zern MA. The differentiation of hepatocyte-like cells from monkey embryonic stem cells. Cloning and Stem Cells 10:485-493; 2008.

Choi MS, Catana AM, Wu J, Kim YS, Borowski AD, Gambhir SS, Gupta S, Zern MA. Use of bioluminescent imaging to assay the transplantation of immortalized human fetal hepatocytes into mice. Cell Transplantation 17:899-910; 2008.

Venugopal SK, Chen J, Zhang YH, Follenzi A, Clemens D, Wu J, Zern MA. Role of MAP kinase phosphatase-1 in sustained activation of c-Jun N-terminal Kinase (JNK) during ethanol-induced apoptosis in hepatocytes. J BioI. Chem. 282:31900-31908; 2007.

Duan Y, Catana A, Meng Y, Songqing H, Gupta S, Gambhir S, Zern, MA. Differentiation and enrichment of hepatocyte-like cells from human embryonic stem cells in vitro and in vivo using lentivirus vector systems. Stem Cells 25:3058-3068; 2007.

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