JaimeChuMD

Summary

• Dr. Jaime Chu is the Mount Sinai Endowed Professor of Pediatric Liver Research. She is the Medical Director of Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Associate Chief of the Division of Pediatric Hepatology, and Director of the Pediatric Physician-Scientist Residency Program at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital and Mount Sinai’s Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute. She received her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University and her M.D. from New York University School of Medicine. She completed her General Pediatrics residency training at Children’s Memorial Hospital (now Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL and her fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition both at Children’s Memorial Hospital and at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
  
  Dr. Chu is a physician-scientist. Her current basic research focuses on how sugar metabolism pathways work together to sustain rapid cell growth in liver development and disease. The lab focuses on mannose metabolism pathways in liver fibrosis. The Chu Lab capitalizes on the strength of the zebrafish as a tool to investigate metabolic mechanisms of hepatic stellate cell activation and test potential therapies to dampen the fibrogenic response. Her research has been funded by the Gilead Sciences Research Scholars Liver Disease Award, the AASLD, and an NIH R01 award. Dr. Chu's clinical research includes participation as site PI and co-Investigator in NIH-funded consortia including a U01 Pediatric Acute Liver Failure, in addition to other Industry-sponsored pediatric drug trials for genetic cholestatic liver disease, biliary atresia, and viral hepatitis. http://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/chulab/