Welcome to the Bissig Lab

Our group is interested in diseases of the liver, ranging from viral hepatitis to metabolic liver disorders and liver cancer. The lab specializes in human liver chimeric mice and created the first xenograft model for metabolic liver disease as well as a novel patient derived cancer model. These humanized mouse models will help to advance and improve experimental therapies for liver disease.


Some of our most recent work, published in Science Translational Medicine, identified a new cause for Glutaric Aciduria 1, an inherited metabolic disease common among the Lumbee population and other Native American heritages. See the press release here.


Bissig Lab News

Our newest publication, A humanized mouse model for adeno-associated viral gene therapy, has been published!

March 4, 2024

Our newest publication, Rescue of glutaric aciduria type I in mice by liver-directed therapies, has been published!

April 19, 2023

Madeline presented a poster at the 2022 European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy Congress in Edinburgh"

October 11-14, 2022

Bea and Mercedes were awarded the Young Investigator Award at the 6th International Workshop on Humanized Mice for their talk "A novel human liver chimeric mouse model lacking the murine AAVR gene for validation of AAV gene therapy vectors"

October 13th, 2022

Several lab members attended and presented at SSIEM Annual Symposium in Freiburg, Germany"

Aug 30-Sept 2, 2022

Dimi organized and spoke at the EMBO Practical Course "Humanized mice, personalized therapies and big data in Heidelberg

June 12-17, 2022

Tong and Mercedes presented at the 25th Annual ASGCT conference in Washington DC, both receiving travel awards

May 16-19, 2022

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