University of California San Francisco

Milad Rezvani, M.D.
Milad Rezvani, MD

Resident, Boston Children's Hospital

Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research

University of California San Francisco

35 Medical Center Way

RMB-902D, Pod A

San Francisco, CA 94143

Lab phone: 415 476 2420

Cell phone: 415 933 9238

[email protected]

    Biography

    Milad Rezvani, M.D. studied Medicine in Hannover/Germany and Freiburg/Germany and also worked as a volunteer in numerous Primary Health Care projects in Ghana, Nepal, Peru and Argentina. As a graduate student he investigated the effect of genetic variants in endoderm and lung development on neonatal lung diseases. As an exchange student he came to UCSF to work on generating therapeutic human liver cells from readily available skin cells. As a Postdoctoral Fellow of the German Research Foundation he continued working in the Willenbring lab to develop potential therapies for chronic liver diseases, particularly by in vivo reprogramming of cirrhosis-causing myofibroblasts into hepatocytes.

    Education

    Education

    Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule, Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany, University-entrance diploma, 2004

     

    Hannover Medical School, Germany, Preclinical Medical Examination, 2006

     

    University of Freiburg, Germany, German Medical State Examination, 2011

     

    04/2015 - 08/2016 Clinical guest student at USCF Medical Center at Mission Bay, Pediatric Hepatology and San Francisco General Hospital, Adult GI division

     

    University of Freiburg, Germany, Doctoral Dissertation, "Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in the genetics of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome", 2013

     

    Biomedical Exchange Program (BMEP)-Scholarship funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for research on liver cell therapy at the Willenbring lab at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), 2012-2013

    Fellowships

    Biomedical Exchange Program (BMEP)-Scholarship funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Research Fellowship of the German Research Foundation

    Postdoctoral Training

    Willenbring laboratory, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, UCSF, Research Foci: 1. Therapeutic liver repopulation with hepatocytes generated from human fibroblasts, 2. In vivo hepatic reprogramming of myofibroblasts in liver fibrosis and cirrhosis

    Clinical Interests

    Adult and pediatric Hepatology and Gastroenterology

    11/2015: Presidential Plenary Session of the The Liver Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), San Francisco, CA, selected oral presentation: “In vivo reprogramming of myofibroblasts into hepatocytes as a therapy for liver fibrosis”

    Research Interests

    Liver Regeneration

    Stem Cells

    Liver Cell Therapy

    Liver Fibrosis

    Cirrhosis

    Biliary Diseases

    Genetics

    Gene Therapy

    Gene Vectors

    Dysplasia

    Metaplasia

    Barrett's Esophagus

    Lung Development
    Lung Diseases

    Lung Fibrosis

    Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia