Christina Fu

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Joel Schilling, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Grinnell College, 2020

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary
Sphingolipid signaling and immune-stromal interactions during congestive liver disease

Graduate publications
Park AC, Fu CF, Parvathaneni A, Yang BQ, Chan MM, Byrnes K, Schilling JD. 2025 Biliary Metaplasia and Macrophage Activation Define the Cellular Landscape of Cardiogenic Liver Disease. JACC Basic Transl Sci, 10(4):434-54. PMCID:

Habibi M, Ferguson D, Eichler SJ, Chan MM, Fu C, Pietka TA, Bredemeyer AL, LaPoint A, Shew TM, He M, Liss KHH, Lutkewitte AJ, Cho K, Schilling JD, Patti GJ, Finck BN. 2025 A Critical Role for the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol, 19(8):101517. PMCID: PMC12166444

Yang BQ, Chan MM, Heo GS, Lou L, Luehmann H, Park C, Li A, Lahad D, Sultan D, Voller P, Byrnes K, Fu C, Liu Y, Schilling JD. 2024 Molecular imaging of macrophage composition and dynamics in MASLD. JHEP Rep, 6(12):101220. PMCID: PMC11609525