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Overview

William M. Lee is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States and has a significant body of research in medicine, with a particular focus on hepatology. Their work spans clinical and translational research centered on liver diseases and transplantation.

The scientist's main fields of study include Medicine, with 293 publications, and subfields such as Hepatology, Epidemiology, Pharmacology, Surgery, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Their research covers a broad spectrum of topics related to liver disease, including:

  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Poisoning and overdose treatments

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaborations across multiple areas of liver disease research and include:

  • Jody A. Rule
  • Robert J. Fontana
  • Constantine Karvellas
  • R. Todd Stravitz
  • Ahmad Anouti

Most of William M. Lee's research is published in well-known hepatology and liver disease journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Hepatology
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Liver International
  • Digestive Diseases and Sciences
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Recent notable papers illustrate their focus on acute liver failure, liver injury mechanisms, and management approaches. These include:

  • AASLD practice guidance on drug, herbal, and dietary supplement-induced liver injury, 2022, published in Hepatology
  • Future directions in acute liver failure, 2023, published in Hepatology
  • Management of Acute Liver Failure: Update 2022, 2022, published in Seminars in Liver Disease
  • Chitinase 3-like-1 contributes to acetaminophen-induced liver injury by promoting hepatic platelet recruitment, 2021, published in eLife
  • Generation of neutrophil extracellular traps in patients with acute liver failure is associated with poor outcome, 2021, published in Hepatology

Best Publications

  • Mutational landscape determines sensitivity to PD-1 blockade in non–small cell lung cancer

    Naiyer A. Rizvi;Naiyer A. Rizvi;Matthew D. Hellmann;Matthew D. Hellmann;Alexandra Snyder;Alexandra Snyder;Pia Kvistborg

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma

    Adam J. Bass;Vesteinn Thorsson;Ilya Shmulevich;Sheila M. Reynolds

  • Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma: The cancer genome atlas research network

    Eric A. Collisson;Joshua D. Campbell;Angela N. Brooks;Angela N. Brooks;Alice H. Berger

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Michael S. Lawrence;Carrie Sougnez;Lee Lichtenstein;Kristian Cibulskis

  • Interferon Alfa-2b Alone or in Combination with Ribavirin as Initial Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C

    John G. Mchutchison;Stuart C. Gordon;Eugene R. Schiff;Mitchell L. Shiffman

  • Hepatitis B virus infection.

    William M. Lee

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of urothelial bladder carcinoma

    John N Weinstein;Rehan Akbani;Bradley McIntosh Broom;Wenyi Wang

  • Comprehensive, Integrative Genomic Analysis of Diffuse Lower-Grade Gliomas.

    Daniel J. Brat;Roel G.W. Verhaak;Kenneth D. Aldape;W. K.Alfred Yung

  • Results of a Prospective Study of Acute Liver Failure at 17 Tertiary Care Centers in the United States

    George Ostapowicz;Robert J. Fontana;Frank V. Schioødt;Anne Larson

  • Drug-induced hepatotoxicity.

    William M. Lee

  • Acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure: results of a United States multicenter, prospective study.

    Anne M. Larson;Julie Polson;Robert J. Fontana;Timothy J. Davern

  • Peginterferon alfa-2b or alfa-2a with ribavirin for treatment of hepatitis C infection.

    John G. McHutchison;Eric J. Lawitz;Mitchell L. Shiffman;Andrew J. Muir

  • Adherence to combination therapy enhances sustained response in genotype-1-infected patients with chronic hepatitis C

    John G. McHutchison;Michael Manns;Keyur Patel;Thierry Poynard

  • AASLD position paper : the management of acute liver failure

    Julie Polson;William M. Lee

  • The Chemical Genomic Portrait of Yeast: Uncovering a Phenotype for All Genes

    Maureen E. Hillenmeyer;Eula Fung;Jan Wildenhain;Sarah E. Pierce

  • ACG Clinical Guideline: The Diagnosis and Management of Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury

    Naga P. Chalasani;Paul Hideyo Hayashi;Herbert L. Bonkovsky;Victor J. Navarro

  • A high-resolution atlas of nucleosome occupancy in yeast.

    William Lee;Desiree Tillo;Nicolas Bray;Randall H Morse

  • Interleukin-28B Polymorphism Improves Viral Kinetics and Is the Strongest Pretreatment Predictor of Sustained Virologic Response in Genotype 1 Hepatitis C Virus

    Alexander J. Thompson;Andrew J. Muir;Andrew J. Muir;Mark S. Sulkowski;Dongliang Ge

  • Acute liver failure: Summary of a workshop.

    William M. Lee;Robert H. Squires;Scott L. Nyberg;Edward Doo

  • POSITION PAPER AASLD Position Paper: The Management of Acute Liver Failure: Update 2011

    William M. Lee;Anne M. Larson;R. Todd Stravitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Fontana
Robert J. Fontana University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Herbert L. Bonkovsky
Herbert L. Bonkovsky Wake Forest University
Raymond T. Chung
Raymond T. Chung Harvard University
Timothy R. Morgan
Timothy R. Morgan California State University, Long Beach
Mitchell L. Shiffman
Mitchell L. Shiffman Bon Secours Health System
Marc G. Ghany
Marc G. Ghany National Institutes of Health
Adrian M. Di Bisceglie
Adrian M. Di Bisceglie Saint Louis University
Jules L. Dienstag
Jules L. Dienstag Harvard University
Chihiro Morishima
Chihiro Morishima University of Washington
Gregory T. Everson
Gregory T. Everson University of Colorado Denver

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