Scott L. Friedman
Tisch Cancer Institute
Scott L. Friedman is an American scientist, professor and physician who works in the field of hepatology. Friedman has conducted pioneering research into the underlying causes of scarring, or fibrosis, associated with chronic liver disease, by characterizing the key fibrogenic cell type, the hepatic stellate cell His laboratory has also discovered a novel tumor suppressor gene, KLF6 that is inactivated in a number of human cancers including primary liver cancer. Friedman is the Fishberg Professo
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Scott L. Friedman is an American scientist, professor and physician who works in the field of hepatology. Friedman has conducted pioneering research into the underlying causes of scarring, or fibrosis, associated with chronic liver disease, by characterizing the key fibrogenic cell type, the hepatic stellate cell His laboratory has also discovered a novel tumor suppressor gene, KLF6 that is inactivated in a number of human cancers including primary liver cancer. Friedman is the Fishberg Professor of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Liver Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Friedman has two children, a son, Leor Friedman, and a daughter, Yael Friedman.
Affiliation
Tisch Cancer Institute
Top Publications
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (2016) - 6,021 citations
- Mechanisms of NAFLD development and therapeutic strategies (2018) - 4,428 citations
- Mechanisms of hepatic stellate cell activation (2017) - 2,985 citations
- Hepatic Stellate Cells: Protean, Multifunctional, and Enigmatic Cells of the Liver (2008) - 2,884 citations
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition) 1 (2021) - 2,742 citations
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- Full name
- Scott L. Friedman
- ORCID
- 0000-0003-1178-6195
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5076560982
Research interests
- Liver physiology and pathology, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Liver Diseases and Immunity, Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis, Liver Disease and Transplantation
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- 6,021OpenAlex citations
- Mechanisms of NAFLD development and therapeutic strategies ↗2018 · Nature Medicine4,428OpenAlex citations
- Mechanisms of hepatic stellate cell activation ↗2017 · Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology2,985OpenAlex citations
- Hepatic Stellate Cells: Protean, Multifunctional, and Enigmatic Cells of the Liver ↗2008 · Physiological Reviews2,884OpenAlex citations
- 2,742OpenAlex citations
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- Mechanisms of NAFLD development and therapeutic strategies ↗2018 · Nature Medicine
- Mechanisms of hepatic stellate cell activation ↗2017 · Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
- Hepatic Stellate Cells: Protean, Multifunctional, and Enigmatic Cells of the Liver ↗2008 · Physiological Reviews
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