Satdarshan (Paul) Singh Monga

Biography

Dr. Monga is the UPMC Endowed Chair for Experimental Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. He is a Professor of Pathology and Medicine and the Associate Dean of Research for the School. He is the Executive Vice Chair of Pathology and the Chief of the Division of Experimental and Translational Pathology. He is the inaugural Director of the Pittsburgh Liver Institute and also the founding Director of P30 funded Pittsburgh Liver Research Center (PLRC), which is 1 of the 17 NIDDK-funded Digestive Disease Research Core Centers and only 1 of the 3 with exclusive liver focus. There are two major research themes within his laboratory. The first focus is in the broad area of liver physiology. This includes the areas of hepatic development, liver regeneration (following surgical resection, drug-induced injury or cholestasis) and metabolic zonation (division of labor within liver lobule). The second major focus in the lab has been on understanding the role of beta-catenin gene mutations in liver tumors especially hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular cancer.