Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
Jules L. Dienstag, M.D. and Betty and Newell Hale Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology
Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine
Advisory Dean of Irving M. London Society
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Seminar Title: Regulation of Liver Metabolism and Regeneration
Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD is the Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an oncologist and gastroenterologist who treats patients with chronic liver disease and liver cancer. Dr. Goessling is the HMS Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Chief of the Gastroenterology Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he holds the Jules L. Dienstag, MD and Betty and Newell Hale Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology.
In his laboratory, Dr. Goessling seeks to identify the molecular signals that regulate liver development, regeneration and cancer formation using zebrafish and other model systems. He received his MD and doctorate from the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. He trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, served as Chief Medical Resident, and completed fellowship training in Hematology/Oncology at the combined Dana-Farber/Partners program and in Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
