Dr. Wolfram Goessling

Biography

Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD, is the chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and chief of Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is also the physician-in-chief at Yale New Haven Health System. Dr. Goessling's research focuses on identifying the regulators of liver growth, differentiation, development, organ regeneration, and cancer formation. He pioneered the use of zebrafish models to study liver disease and collaborates with the Framingham Heart Study to validate genes associated with liver and kidney disorders using functional in vivo models. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to medicine, including the William Randolph Hearst Young Investigator Award at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Donald O’Hara, PhD, Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Harvard-MIT. Dr. Goessling has served as an associate editor for the journal Hepatology and has held esteemed positions at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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