Yury POPOV 医学博士
Yury V. Popov, MD, PhD
Dr. Popov received an M.D. (1997) from Grodno State Medical School, Belarus and PhD in Biochemistry (2004) from Institute of Biochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. He was the first scientist from Eastern Europe to win the prestigious Sheila Sherlock EASL fellowship award to pursue postdoctoral training in translational liver fibrosis research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. In 2005, Dr. Popov relocated to USA and joined faculty at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He is the recipient of a number of industry, foundations and institutional grants. Dr. Popov is currently directing a Liver Fibrosis Research Lab and Core and holding an appointment of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He is also an Associate Editor of American journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, and ad hoc reviewer for over 30 scientific journals including Journal of Clinical Investigation, Science Translational Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Dr. Popov’s laboratory's major research focus is on liver fibrosis/cirrhosis and its life-threatening sequelae. Specifically, his team investigates the basic mechanisms of progression and regression of liver scarring, with the goal of the development of non-invasive diagnostic tools to measure these processes in the clinic, and novel therapies to prevent and reverse cirrhosis and its life-threatening complications such as primary liver cancers. Popov laboratory is also actively working on the development, validation and optimization of small animal models of cirrhosis and liver cancer for novel drug target discovery and efficacy testing. Some of his lab’s current basic research projects include the investigation of a novel macrophage-mediated pathway of fibrosis reversal, a role of intestinal microbiota in chronic liver disease, and elucidating the molecular mechanisms of fibrotic matrix stabilization and collagen cross-linking which make liver scarring irreversible. Most recently, he became interested in understanding how pathological micro-environment, such as fibrotic extracellular matrix in cirrhosis, promotes development of liver cancers in chronic liver diseases.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (selected)
• Ikenaga N, Peng ZW, Vaid KA, Liu SB, Yoshida S, Sverdlov DY, Mikels-Vigdal A, Smith V, Schuppan D, Popov YV. Selective targeting of lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2) suppresses hepatic fibrosis progression and accelerates its reversal. Gut. 2017 Sep; 66(9):1697-1708
• Liu SB, Ikenaga N, Peng ZW, Sverdlov DY, Greenstein A, Smith V, Schuppan D, Popov Y. Lysyl oxidase activity contributes to collagen stabilization during liver fibrosis progression and limits spontaneous fibrosis reversal in mice. FASEB J. 2016 Apr; 30(4):1599-609. PMID: 26700732.
• Peng ZW, Ikenaga N, Liu SB, Sverdlov DY, Vaid KA, Dixit R, Weinreb PH, Violette S, Sheppard D, Schuppan D, Popov Y. Integrin avß6 critically regulates hepatic progenitor cell function and promotes ductular reaction, fibrosis, and tumorigenesis. Hepatology. 2016 Jan; 63(1):217-32. PMID: 26448099.
• Ikenaga N, Liu SB, Sverdlov DY, Yoshida S, Nasser I, Ke Q, Kang PM, Popov Y. A new Mdr2(-/-) mouse model of sclerosing cholangitis with rapid fibrosis progression, early-onset portal hypertension, and liver cancer. Am J Pathol. 2015 Feb; 185(2):325-34. PMID: 25478810
• Yoshida S, Ikenaga N, Liu SB, Peng ZW, Chung J, Sverdlov DY, Miyamoto M, Kim YO, Ogawa S, Arch RH, Schuppan D, Popov Y. Extrahepatic platelet-derived growth factor-ß, delivered by platelets, promotes activation of hepatic stellate cells and biliary fibrosis in mice. Gastroenterology. 2014 Dec; 147(6):1378-92. PMID: 25173753.
• Kuramitsu K, Sverdlov DY, Liu SB, Csizmadia E, Burkly L, Schuppan D, Hanto DW, Otterbein LE, Popov Y. Failure of fibrotic liver regeneration in mice is linked to a severe fibrogenic response driven by hepatic progenitor cell activation. Am J Pathol. 2013 Jul; 183(1):182-94. PMID: 23680654; PMCID: PMC3702745.