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This comprises the whole LiSyM network

Chronic liver diseases (CLD) progression leads to cirrhosis, often cancer, and ultimately to organ failure and death. Because of the complexity of this scenario, a Systems Medicine approach is chosen to develop strategies to better characterize progression and resolution of fibrosis. Pillar II aims to define key molecular mechanisms and structural changes in tissue architecture during the progression of CLD by visualizing and quantifying at a cellular level, tissue and organ scale.

The incidence of this life-threatening acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is increasing, and early detection and cure are urgent clinical needs. Pillar III applies a Systems Medicine approach to identify the critical mechanisms of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) and to foster liver regeneration and repair.

Major infrastructure backbone of the whole LiSyM network. It comprises the core management tasks of the program directorate and the scientific project management, as well as the central data management. The data management concept relies on FAIRDOM (http://fair-dom.org) and uses the LiSyM SEEK platform as a major hub for exchanging data, models, SOPs and other information, as well as yellow pages for the projects with its corresponding members, institutions, events, presentations and publications.
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Identification of key processes leading to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its progression to non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (NASH): Based on the finding within the Virtual Liver Network that the Hedgehog signalling pathway is a core player in the regulation of liver lipid metabolism, this project aims to characterize and model the central role of Hedgehog signalling during the transition from benign steatosis to NAFLD and NASH using patient data and large data sets from various
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