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Abraham Shaked is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and focuses on research primarily within the field of medicine, with an emphasis on hepatology, surgery, epidemiology, genetics, and transplantation. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields, including hepatology, surgery, epidemiology, genetics, and transplantation, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to medical research.

Their research interests center on liver disease and transplantation, with notable engagement in topics such as liver disease diagnosis and treatment, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, genetic associations and epidemiology, organ donation and transplantation, renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, and methods and outcomes related to transplantation.

Among recent publications associated with this researcher are:

  • Functional Characterization of Organoids Derived From Irreversibly Damaged Liver of Patients With NASH, 2021, Hepatology
  • Donor and recipient polygenic risk scores influence the risk of post-transplant diabetes, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • Launch of the International Living Donor Liver Transplantation Outcomes Registry, 2023, The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
  • Whole transcriptome profiling of prospective endomyocardial biopsies reveals prognostic and diagnostic signatures of cardiac allograft rejection, 2022, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • A local response to COVID-19 for advanced liver disease: Current model of care, challenges and opportunities, 2020, Journal of Hepatology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Abraham Shaked include Kim M. Olthoff, Bao-Li Loza, Brendan J. Keating, James F. Trotter, and Giuliano Testa. This collaboration network reflects substantial interdisciplinary cooperation in transplantation and liver disease research.

The researcher publishes often in journals such as the American Journal of Transplantation, UNC Libraries, Journal of Hepatology, Liver Transplantation, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). These venues suggest a strong focus on transplantation medicine and liver disease.

Best Publications

  • Validation of a current definition of early allograft dysfunction in liver transplant recipients and analysis of risk factors

    Kim M. Olthoff;Laura Kulik;Benjamin Samstein;Mary Kaminski

  • Innate Lymphoid Cells Promote Anatomical Containment of Lymphoid-Resident Commensal Bacteria

    Gregory F. Sonnenberg;Laurel A. Monticelli;Theresa Alenghat;Thomas C. Fung

  • 2016 Comprehensive Update of the Banff Working Group on Liver Allograft Pathology: Introduction of Antibody-Mediated Rejection.

    A J Demetris;C Bellamy;S G Hübscher;J O'Leary

  • Synergistic Reversal of Intrahepatic HCV-Specific CD8 T Cell Exhaustion by Combined PD-1/CTLA-4 Blockade

    Nobuhiro Nakamoto;Hyosun Cho;Hyosun Cho;Abraham Shaked;Kim Olthoff

  • Liver transplantation from controlled non-heart-beating donors: an increased incidence of biliary complications.

    Peter Abt;Michael Crawford;Niraj Desai;James Markmann

  • Current treatment modalities for hepatocellular carcinoma

    Douglas G. Farmer;Michael H. Rosove;Abraham Shaked;Ronald W. Busuttil

  • Urinary-Cell mRNA Profile and Acute Cellular Rejection in Kidney Allografts

    Manikkam Suthanthiran;Joseph E. Schwartz;Ruchuang Ding;Michael Abecassis

  • Functional restoration of HCV-specific CD8 T cells by PD-1 blockade is defined by PD-1 expression and compartmentalization

    Nobuhiro Nakamoto;Nobuhiro Nakamoto;David E. Kaplan;David E. Kaplan;Jennifer Coleclough;Jennifer Coleclough;Yun Li;Yun Li

  • Endoscopic management of postoperative biliary complications in orthotopic liver transplantation

    Patrick R. Pfau;Michael L. Kochman;James D. Lewis;William B. Long

  • Biliary strictures complicating liver transplantation. Incidence, pathogenesis, management, and outcome.

    J. O. Colonna;A. Shaked;A. S. Gomes;S. D. Colquhoun

  • Randomised comparison of ganciclovir and high-dose acyclovir for long-term cytomegalovirus prophylaxis in liver-transplant recipients.

    D.J. Winston;D. Wirin;A. Shaked;R.W. Busuttil

  • Hepatocytes direct the formation of a pro-metastatic niche in the liver

    Jae W. Lee;Meredith L. Stone;Paige M. Porrett;Stacy K. Thomas

  • Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma validation of present selection criteria in predicting outcome.

    Kirti Shetty;Kate Timmins;Colleen Brensinger;Emma E. Furth

  • Improvement in survival associated with adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation.

    Carl L. Berg;Brenda W. Gillespie;Robert M. Merion;Robert S. Brown

  • International Liver Transplantation Society Consensus Statement on Immunosuppression in Liver Transplant Recipients.

    Michael Charlton;Josh Levitsky;Bashar Aqel;John O'Grady

  • The role of donor-specific HLA alloantibodies in liver transplantation.

    J.G. O'Leary;A.J. Demetris;L.S. Friedman;Howard Gebel

  • Acute Rejection Increases Risk of Graft Failure and Death in Recent Liver Transplant Recipients

    Josh Levitsky;David Goldberg;Abigail R. Smith;Sarah A. Mansfield

  • Clinical Utility of Monitoring Tacrolimus Blood Concentrations in Liver Transplant Patients

    Raman Venkataramanan;Leslie M. Shaw;Laszlo Sarkozi;Richard Mullins

  • Adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.

    Kim M. Olthoff;Michael H. Rosove;Christopher R. Shackleton;David K. Imagawa

  • Summary report of a national conference: Evolving concepts in liver allocation in the MELD and PELD era

    Kim M. Olthoff;Robert S. Brown;Francis L. Delmonico;Richard B. Freeman

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim M. Olthoff
Kim M. Olthoff University of Pennsylvania
Ronald W. Busuttil
Ronald W. Busuttil University of California, Los Angeles
James F. Markmann
James F. Markmann Harvard University
Emma E. Furth
Emma E. Furth University of Pennsylvania
Jason D. Christie
Jason D. Christie University of Pennsylvania
Ali Naji
Ali Naji University of Pennsylvania
Brendan J. Keating
Brendan J. Keating University of Pennsylvania
Douglas G. Farmer
Douglas G. Farmer University of California, Los Angeles
K. Rajender Reddy
K. Rajender Reddy University of Pennsylvania
Michael C. Soulen
Michael C. Soulen University of Pennsylvania

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