Fatty liver disease (MASLD/MASH): who works on it

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• All targets
• PPAR 1
• AMPK 0
• GLP-1 7
• SGLT2 5
• NRF2 1
• SIRT1 0
• PNPLA3 6
• NLRP3 1
• mTOR 0
• AKT 0
• PI3K 0
• STAT3 0
• TLR4 0
• MAPK 0
• STING 0
• JNK 0
• TP53 0
• PINK1 0
• TNF 2
• HIF-1 0
• JAK 0
• GIP 1
• TFEB 0
• YAP 0
• CTNNB1 0
• ERK 0
• COX-2 0
• HSP90 0
• PTEN 0
• STK11 0
• APOE 0
• FTO 0
• HMGB1 0
• IL-6 0
• KEAP1 0
• PCSK9 0
• DPP-4 0
• GPX4 0
• VEGF 0
• FGFR 0
• IL-17 0
• PDGFR 0
• BDNF 0
• IL-1 0
• METTL3 0
• PKM2 0
• TREM2 0
• ACE2 0
• EGFR 0
• FAK 0
• IDH 0
• MDM2 0
• PARP 0
• PD-1 0
• RANKL 1
• ABL1 0
• ALK 0
• BCL-2 0
• CD38 0
• CD40 0

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24 of 30+ institutions, ordered by recent publications and open trials. This is not a ranking of quality.

Trials whose registry record says individual participant data (IPD) will be shared.

• The Effects of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate Supplementation in Patients With Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease

  NCT07740109· Tabriz University of Medical Sciences· Source

Find publications on this disease by a MeSH method term, for example a sequencing or imaging method.

• Single-Cell Analysis 24
• Organoids 17
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 45
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 3
• Gene Expression Profiling 105
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 10
• Whole Genome Sequencing 3
• Exome Sequencing 2
• Proteomics 65
• Metabolomics 103
• Mass Spectrometry 10
• Flow Cytometry 3
• Immunohistochemistry 16
• Liquid Biopsy 1
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 1
• Positron-Emission Tomography 5
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 102
• Machine Learning 103
• Deep Learning 14
• Cohort Studies 172
• Genome-Wide Association Study 48

• Integrated Transcriptomic and Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Shared Macrophage-Associated Inflammatory Signatures in MASLD/NAFLD and Rheumatoid Arthritis.

  Int J Mol Sci, Oct 2026

• A human single-cell atlas identifies OLR1+ scar-associated macrophages as a potential therapeutic target for chronic liver disease.

  Nat Genet, Sept 2026

• An lncRNA-aware single-cell framework with donor-level validation identifies reproducible MEG3 enrichment in human liver sinusoidal endothelial cells.

  Funct Integr Genomics, Sept 2026

• Cell-type-specific damage scores reveal kidney and liver disease trajectories in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  Cell Genom, Aug 2026

• Identification of glutathione metabolism-related biomarkers in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease based on single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing.

  BMC Med Genomics, Jul 2026

• Bisphenol A drives the comorbidity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and osteoarthritis by targeting RHOB: Integrated multi-omics, single-cell analysis, and experimental validation.

  Exp Gerontol, Jul 2026

• Potential targets of baicalein in macrophages revealed by bulk and single cell RNA sequencing analysis.

  Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol, Jun 2026

• Integrative Single-Cell Transcriptomic, Mendelian Randomization and In Silico Perturbation Analyses Prioritize MUC20 as a Candidate Gene Associated with Osteoporosis and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in the Liver-Bone Axis.

  Int J Mol Sci, Jun 2026

• Identification of Estrogen-Related Biomarkers in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Through Machine Learning and Single-Cell Analysis.

  Clin Transl Gastroenterol, Jun 2026

• A fluorescence-based high-content imaging workflow for multi-parametric lipid droplet phenotyping via Oil Red O fluorescence.

  Methods, Jun 2026

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