Pediatric Surgeon Amar Nijagal Receives Jay Grosfeld MD Scholar Award from APSAF

Amar Nijagal, M.D., assistant professor of Surgery in the Division of Pediatric Surgery, received the Jay Grosfeld MD Scholar Award from the American Pediatric Surgical Association Foundation (APSAF) at the 2018 APSA annual meeting. Dr. Nijagal was one of two junior faculty honored with the highly competitive award for his grant proposal, "Investigating the fetal mechanisms of liver and bile duct repair: a link to the prenatal origins of biliary atresia".

The Department of Surgery is also pleased to announce the launch of the Nijagal Lab website. The lab will study how immune cells regulate the development and repair of fetal organs with a research focus on the development of the liver and bile ducts. The fetal liver is ripe with interactions between developing hepatocytes/cholangiocytes and the hematopoietic system. Other members of the lab include postdoctoral fellow Anas Alkhani, M.D. and researcher Katya Polovina, B.S.