Genetics of MASLD: redefining risk and individualizing treatment

Speaker: Prof. Luca Valenti

Venue: E122, College of Animal Sciences, Zijingang Campus

Abstract: Professor Luca Valenti is the head of Biological Resource Center, the Precision Medicine Lab and the Omics Lab of Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Policlinico Milano, University of Milan as an internist and clinical hepatologist at the Department of Transfusion Medicine. He has authored more than 200 publications as main author in journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Genetics, Gut, and Journal of Hepatology (Scholar: 50,000 citations, H-index 108).

His main research interests are metabolic and genetic liver diseases, with a special focus on steatotic/fatty liver disease (SLD) and iron metabolism disorders. He conducts genetic studies in well-characterized clinical and population-based cohorts, integrated with translational research with evaluation of biomarkers and biological pathways in clinical samples, and experimental studies in vivo and in vitro multilineage 3D models.