Affiliation: David Geffen School of Medicine, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, The Dumont-UCLA Transplantation Center

Hidenobu Kojima, MD, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Dumont-UCLA Transplantation Center, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His main professional interests include surgical management/research of end-stage liver disease and hepatobiliary cancer. Dr. Kojima received his MD degree in 2006 from the School of Medicine at Osaka City University (Japan). His work in basic research started in 2013, and he completed his PhD in 2018 through the Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Japan. He has been engaged in microsurgery and research focusing on liver transplantation and has acquired the skill of mouse orthotopic liver transplantation. In 2019, he joined Dumont-UCLA Transplantation Research Laboratories as a postdoctoral researcher. He is conducting basic/translational studies in the field of liver regeneration and ischemia-reperfusion injury using a unique model of mouse liver transplantation.