Kelley Weinfurtner, MD
Clinical, Assistant Professor Melissa Motzkin Clinical, Assistant Professor Melissa Motzkin

Kelley Weinfurtner, MD

Kelley Weinfurtner is a Transplant Hepatologist and Instructor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the PIGI lab in 2019 under a T32 training grant as part of her Gastroenterology fellowship. Her research is centered around developing patient-derived models of primary liver cancer for use in translational therapeutics, specifically identifying predictors of response and mechanisms of resistance to immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma.

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David Tischfield, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor Melissa Motzkin Assistant Professor Melissa Motzkin

David Tischfield, MD, PhD

David Tischfield is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Therapy, at the University of Pennsylvania. Having completed his MD/PhD, diagnostic radiology residency, and nuclear radiology fellowship at the same institution, David has been a valuable member of the PIGI lab since 2017. His contributions include the development of patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the characterization of the tumor immune microenvironment following locoregional therapy, and the use of metabolic imaging to explore metabolic vulnerabilities in HCC for improved diagnostic imaging paradigms.

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