Liver disease is known as a “silent killer” because the liver won’t tell you when things start to go wrong. It will quietly keep trying to work away until one day it just gives up. And when the liver goes down, everything goes down. It is the driver of human health and well-being.  

Liver disease touches millions of lives across the globe. It’s attributed to more than two million deaths worldwide each year, and is among the top ten leading causes of death in the United States.  

That's why the Virginia Commonwealth University Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health was founded in 2022 – through the largest publicly shared gift for liver research in U.S. history. With Arun Sanyal, M.D., at the helm, his team of clinician-researchers have shown the world that they can do what others can’t, or won’t.  

From breakthrough drug therapies to global partnerships that bring cutting-edge research to the world, Sanyal and his team are revolutionizing how liver disease is treated and prevented. 

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