Holger Willenbring

Holger Willenbring, M.D, Ph.D. is a Professor of Surgery and associate director of the Liver Center at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Holger is a member of the Eli and Edyth Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, and his research focus is on liver regeneration and liver cell transplantation, mechanisms of hepatocarcinogenesis, and approaches to the treatment and reversal of liver fibrosis.

Holger received his medical education from Medical University Lübeck, Germany, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Münster, Germany, where he also completed his residency in pediatrics. He completed his postdoctoral work at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, in the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics.