Gary Lipshutz

Gerald S Lipshutz

Professor, Surgery, University of California Los Angeles

Professor, Urology, University of California Los Angeles

Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles

Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles

Professor, Medicine, University of California Los Angeles

Dr. Gerald Lipshutz holds the Joan S. and Ralph N. Goldwyn Chair in Immunobiology and Transplantation Research.

Publications

  1. Koeberl D, Schulze A, Sondheimer N, Lipshutz GS, Geberhiwot T, Li L, Saini R, Luo J, Sikirica V, Jin L, Liang M, Leuchars M, Grunewald S. Interim analyses of a first-in-human phase 1/2 mRNA trial for propionic acidaemia.. Nature, 2024.
  2. Meera P, Uusi-Oukari M, Lipshutz GS, Wallner M. GABAA receptors as plausible molecular targets and mediators for taurine and homotaurine actions.. Frontiers in pharmacology, 2023.
  3. Schaenman J, Ahn R, Lee C, Hale-Durbin B, Abdalla B, Danovitch G, Huynh A, Laviolette R, Shigri A, Bunnapradist S, Kendrick E, Lipshutz GS, Pham PT, Lum EL, Yabu JM, Seligman B, Goldwater D. Physical Frailty Predicts Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Evaluation for Kidney Transplantation.. Transplantation proceedings, 2023.
  4. Ladner DP, Goldstein AM, Billiar TR, Cameron AM, Carpizo DR, Chu DI, Coopersmith CM, DeMatteo RP, Feng S, Gallagher KA, Gillanders WE, Lal BK, Lipshutz GS, Liu A, Maier RV, Mittendorf EA, Morris AM, Sicklick JK, Velazquez OC, Whitson BA, Wilke LG, Yoon SS, Zeiger MA, Farmer DL, Hwang ES, ASA Task Force for Research Sustainability. Transforming the Future of Surgeon-Scientists.. Annals of surgery, 2023.
  5. Meera P, Uusi-Oukari M, Wallner M, Lipshutz GS. Guanidinoacetate (GAA) is a potent GABAA receptor GABA mimetic: Implications for neurological disease pathology.. Journal of neurochemistry, 2023.
  6. Prasad S, Dimmock DP, Greenberg B, Walia JS, Sadhu C, Tavakkoli F, Lipshutz GS. Immune Responses and Immunosuppressive Strategies for Adeno-Associated Virus-Based Gene Therapy for Treatment of Central Nervous System Disorders: Current Knowledge and Approaches.. Human gene therapy, 2022.
  7. Soria LR, Makris G, D'Alessio AM, De Angelis A, Boffa I, Pravata VM, Rüfenacht V, Attanasio S, Nusco E, Arena P, Ferenbach AT, Paris D, Cuomo P, Motta A, Nitzahn M, Lipshutz GS, Martínez-Pizarro A, Richard E, Desviat LR, Häberle J, van Aalten DMF, Brunetti-Pierri N. O-GlcNAcylation enhances CPS1 catalytic efficiency for ammonia and promotes ureagenesis.. Nature communications, 2022.
  8. Khoja S, Liu XB, Truong B, Nitzahn M, Lambert J, Eliav A, Nasser E, Randolph E, Burke KE, White R, Zhu X, Martini PGV, Nissim I, Cederbaum SD, Lipshutz GS. Intermittent lipid nanoparticle mRNA administration prevents cortical dysmyelination associated with arginase deficiency.. Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2022.
  9. Khoja S, Lambert J, Nitzahn M, Eliav A, Zhang Y, Tamboline M, Le CT, Nasser E, Li Y, Patel P, Zhuravka I, Lueptow LM, Tkachyova I, Xu S, Nissim I, Schulze A, Lipshutz GS. Gene therapy for guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency restores cerebral and myocardial creatine while resolving behavioral abnormalities.. Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2022.
  10. Nitzahn M, Truong B, Khoja S, Vega-Crespo A, Le C, Eliav A, Makris G, Pyle AD, Häberle J, Lipshutz GS. CRISPR-Mediated Genomic Addition to CPS1 Deficient iPSCs is Insufficient to Restore Nitrogen Homeostasis.. The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2021.
  11. Boonpheng B, Zuckerman JE, Lipshutz GS, Danovitch GM, Phelps A, Pena M, Yabu JM. Mesangial sclerosis in a patient with type 1 diabetes following simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation despite maintenance of normoglycemia: a case report.. BMC nephrology, 2021.
  12. Van C, Condro MC, Ko HH, Hoang AQ, Zhu R, Lov K, Ricaflanca PT, Diep AL, Nguyen NNM, Lipshutz GS, MacKenzie-Graham A, Waschek JA. Targeted deletion of PAC1 receptors in retinal neurons enhances neuron loss and axonopathy in a model of multiple sclerosis and optic neuritis.. Neurobiology of disease, 2021.
  13. Nitzahn M, Lipshutz GS. CPS1: Looking at an ancient enzyme in a modern light.. Molecular genetics and metabolism, 2020.
  14. Nitzahn M, Allegri G, Khoja S, Truong B, Makris G, Häberle J, Lipshutz GS. Split AAV-Mediated Gene Therapy Restores Ureagenesis in a Murine Model of Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthetase 1 Deficiency.. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2020.
  15. Truong B, Allegri G, Liu XB, Burke KE, Zhu X, Cederbaum SD, Häberle J, Martini PGV, Lipshutz GS. Lipid nanoparticle-targeted mRNA therapy as a treatment for the inherited metabolic liver disorder arginase deficiency.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019.
  16. Liu XB, Haney JR, Cantero G, Lambert JR, Otero-Garcia M, Truong B, Gropman A, Cobos I, Cederbaum SD, Lipshutz GS. Hepatic arginase deficiency fosters dysmyelination during postnatal CNS development.. JCI insight, 2019.
  17. Korayem IM, Agopian VG, Lunsford KE, Gritsch HA, Veale JL, Lipshutz GS, Yersiz H, Serrone CL, Kaldas FM, Farmer DG, Bunnapradist S, Danovitch GM, Busuttil RW, Zarrinpar A. Factors predicting kidney delayed graft function among recipients of simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation: A single-center experience.. Clinical transplantation, 2019.
  18. Soria LR, Nitzahn M, De Angelis A, Khoja S, Attanasio S, Annunziata P, Palmer DJ, Ng P, Lipshutz GS, Brunetti-Pierri N. Hepatic glutamine synthetase augmentation enhances ammonia detoxification.. Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 2019.
  19. Khoja S, Nitzahn M, Truong B, Lambert J, Willis B, Allegri G, Rüfenacht V, Häberle J, Lipshutz GS. A constitutive knockout of murine carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 results in death with marked hyperglutaminemia and hyperammonemia.. Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 2019.
  20. Angarita SAK, Truong B, Khoja S, Nitzahn M, Rajbhandari AK, Zhuravka I, Duarte S, Lin MG, Lam AK, Cederbaum SD, Lipshutz GS. Human hepatocyte transplantation corrects the inherited metabolic liver disorder arginase deficiency in mice.. Molecular genetics and metabolism, 2018.
  21. Khoja S, Nitzahn M, Hermann K, Truong B, Borzone R, Willis B, Rudd M, Palmer DJ, Ng P, Brunetti-Pierri N, Lipshutz GS. Conditional disruption of hepatic carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 in mice results in hyperammonemia without orotic aciduria and can be corrected by liver-directed gene therapy.. Molecular genetics and metabolism, 2018.
  22. Salas JR, Chen BY, Wong A, Duarte S, Angarita SAK, Lipshutz GS, Witte ON, Clark PM. Noninvasive Imaging of Drug-Induced Liver Injury with 18F-DFA PET.. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2018.
  23. Koo M, Lipshutz GS, Cederbaum SD, Lassman C. Biopsy-proven Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a 53-year-old Woman With Arginase Deficiency.. Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society, 2017.
  24. Lee PC, Truong B, Vega-Crespo A, Gilmore WB, Hermann K, Angarita SA, Tang JK, Chang KM, Wininger AE, Lam AK, Schoenberg BE, Cederbaum SD, Pyle AD, Byrne JA, Lipshutz GS. Restoring Ureagenesis in Hepatocytes by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Genomic Addition to Arginase-deficient Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.. Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2016.
  25. Hickey MJ, Zheng Y, Valenzuela N, Zhang Q, Krystal C, Lum E, Tsai EW, Lipshutz GS, Gritsch HA, Danovitch G, Veale J, Gjertson D, Cecka M, Reed EF. New priorities: Analysis of the New Kidney Allocation System on UCLA patients transplanted from the deceased donor waitlist.. Human immunology, 2016.
  26. Mavila N, Trecartin A, Spurrier R, Xiao Y, Hou X, James D, Fu X, Truong B, Wang C, Lipshutz GS, Wang KS, Grikscheit TC. Functional Human and Murine Tissue-Engineered Liver Is Generated from Adult Stem/Progenitor Cells.. Stem cells translational medicine, 2016.
  27. Vega-Crespo A, Truong B, Hermann KJ, Awe JP, Chang KM, Lee PC, Schoenberg BE, Wu L, Byrne JA, Lipshutz GS. Investigating the functionality of an OCT4-short response element in human induced pluripotent stem cells.. Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2016.
  28. Cantero G, Liu XB, Mervis RF, Lazaro MT, Cederbaum SD, Golshani P, Lipshutz GS. Rescue of the Functional Alterations of Motor Cortical Circuits in Arginase Deficiency by Neonatal Gene Therapy.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2016.
  29. Liu Y, Du J, Choi JS, Chen KJ, Hou S, Yan M, Lin WY, Chen KS, Ro T, Lipshutz GS, Wu L, Shi L, Lu Y, Tseng HR, Wang H. A High-Throughput Platform for Formulating and Screening Multifunctional Nanoparticles Capable of Simultaneous Delivery of Genes and Transcription Factors.. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2015.
  30. Tai DS, Hu C, Kim EH, Lipshutz GS. Augmentation of transgene-encoded protein after neonatal injection of adeno-associated virus improves hepatic copy number without immune responses.. Pediatric research, 2015.
  31. Nayak AB, Ettenger RB, McGuire S, Lipshutz GS, Reed EF, Veale J, Tsai EW. Optimizing HLA matching in a highly sensitized pediatric patient using ABO-incompatible and paired exchange kidney transplantation.. Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2015.
  32. Tai DS, Shen N, Szot GL, Posselt A, Feduska NJ, Habashy A, Clerkin B, Core E, Busuttil RW, Hines OJ, Reber HA, Lipshutz GS. Autologous islet transplantation with remote islet isolation after pancreas resection for chronic pancreatitis.. JAMA surgery, 2015.
  33. Hu C, Kasten J, Park H, Bhargava R, Tai DS, Grody WW, Nguyen QG, Hauschka SD, Cederbaum SD, Lipshutz GS. Myocyte-mediated arginase expression controls hyperargininemia but not hyperammonemia in arginase-deficient mice.. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2014.
  34. Awe JP, Lee PC, Ramathal C, Vega-Crespo A, Durruthy-Durruthy J, Cooper A, Karumbayaram S, Lowry WE, Clark AT, Zack JA, Sebastiano V, Kohn DB, Pyle AD, Martin MG, Lipshutz GS, Phelps PE, Pera RA, Byrne JA. Generation and characterization of transgene-free human induced pluripotent stem cells and conversion to putative clinical-grade status.. Stem cell research & therapy, 2013.
  35. Kasten J, Hu C, Bhargava R, Park H, Tai D, Byrne JA, Marescau B, De Deyn PP, Schlichting L, Grody WW, Cederbaum SD, Lipshutz GS. Lethal phenotype in conditional late-onset arginase 1 deficiency in the mouse.. Molecular genetics and metabolism, 2013.
  36. Blumberg JM, Gritsch HA, Reed EF, Cecka JM, Lipshutz GS, Danovitch GM, McGuire S, Gjertson DW, Veale JL. Kidney paired donation in the presence of donor-specific antibodies.. Kidney international, 2013.
  37. Tai DS, Hong J, Busuttil RW, Lipshutz GS. Low rates of short- and long-term graft loss after kidney-pancreas transplant from a single center.. JAMA surgery, 2013.
  38. Lee EK, Hu C, Bhargava R, Rozengurt N, Stout D, Grody WW, Cederbaum SD, Lipshutz GS. Long-term survival of the juvenile lethal arginase-deficient mouse with AAV gene therapy.. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2012.
  39. Schnickel GT, Busuttil RW, Lipshutz GS. Improvement in short-term pancreas transplant outcome by targeted antimicrobial therapy and refined donor selection.. The American surgeon, 2011.
  40. Hong JC, Yersiz H, Kositamongkol P, Xia VW, Kaldas FM, Petrowsky H, Farmer DG, Lipshutz G, Markovic D, Hiatt JR, Busuttil RW. Liver transplantation using organ donation after cardiac death: a clinical predictive index for graft failure-free survival.. Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 2011.
  41. Lipshutz GS, McGuire S, Zhu Q, Ziman A, Davis R, Goldfinger D, Reed EF, Wilkinson AH, Danovitch GM, Pham PT. ABO blood type-incompatible kidney transplantation and access to organs.. Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 2011.
  42. Hu C, Cela RG, Suzuki M, Lee B, Lipshutz GS. Neonatal helper-dependent adenoviral vector gene therapy mediates correction of hemophilia A and tolerance to human factor VIII.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011.
  43. Hu C, Busuttil RW, Lipshutz GS. RH10 provides superior transgene expression in mice when compared with natural AAV serotypes for neonatal gene therapy.. The journal of gene medicine, 2010.
  44. Gaber AO, Mulgaonkar S, Kahan BD, Woodle ES, Alloway R, Bajjoka I, Jensik S, Klintmalm GB, Patton PR, Wiseman A, Lipshutz G, Kupiec-Weglinski J, Gaber LW, Katz E, Irish W, Squiers EC, Hemmerich S. YSPSL (rPSGL-Ig) for improvement of early renal allograft function: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center Phase IIa study.. Clinical transplantation, 2010.
  45. Pham PT, Lipshutz GS, Pham PT, Kawahji J, Singer JS, Pham PC. The evolving role of alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) in renal transplantation.. Drug design, development and therapy, 2009.
  46. Gau CL, Rosenblatt RA, Cerullo V, Lay FD, Dow AC, Livesay J, Brunetti-Pierri N, Lee B, Cederbaum SD, Grody WW, Lipshutz GS. Short-term correction of arginase deficiency in a neonatal murine model with a helper-dependent adenoviral vector.. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2009.
  47. Lipshutz GS, Mihara N, Wong R, Wallace WD, Allen-Auerbach M, Dorigo O, Rao PN, Pham PC, Pham PT. Death from metastatic donor-derived ovarian cancer in a male kidney transplant recipient.. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2009.
  48. Gill J, Madhira BR, Gjertson D, Lipshutz G, Cecka JM, Pham PT, Wilkinson A, Bunnapradist S, Danovitch GM. Transplant tourism in the United States: a single-center experience.. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 2008.
  49. Lipshutz GS, Dow AC, Pham PC, Pham PT. CMV otitis: a rare presentation in an adult transplant recipient.. Transplantation, 2008.
  50. Nguyen AT, Dow AC, Kupiec-Weglinski J, Busuttil RW, Lipshutz GS. Evaluation of gene promoters for liver expression by hydrodynamic gene transfer.. The Journal of surgical research, 2008.
  51. Lipshutz GS, Pham PC, Ghobrial MR, Wallace WD, Miller JM, Pham PT. Thrombotic microangiopathy following pancreas after kidney transplants.. Clinical transplantation, 2008.
  52. Gill J, Cho YW, Danovitch GM, Wilkinson A, Lipshutz G, Pham PT, Gill JS, Shah T, Bunnapradist S. Outcomes of dual adult kidney transplants in the United States: an analysis of the OPTN/UNOS database.. Transplantation, 2008.
  53. Pham PT, Pham PC, Lipshutz GS, Wilkinson AH. New onset diabetes mellitus after solid organ transplantation.. Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 2007.
  54. Lipshutz GS, Wilkinson AH. Pancreas-kidney and pancreas transplantation for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.. Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 2007.
  55. Mahanty HD, Posselt AM, Lipshutz GS, Schneider DB, Freise CE. Catheter-directed therapy for DVT after pancreas transplantation.. Clinical transplantation, 2007.
  56. Zarrinpar A, Farmer DG, Ghobrial RM, Lipshutz GS, Gu Y, Hiatt JR, Busuttil RW. Liver transplantation for HELLP syndrome.. The American surgeon, 2007.
  57. Lipshutz GS, Busuttil RW. Liver transplantation in those of advancing age: the case for transplantation.. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 2007.
  58. Duffy JP, Vardanian A, Benjamin E, Watson M, Farmer DG, Ghobrial RM, Lipshutz G, Yersiz H, Lu DS, Lassman C, Tong MJ, Hiatt JR, Busuttil RW. Liver transplantation criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma should be expanded: a 22-year experience with 467 patients at UCLA.. Annals of surgery, 2007.
  59. Lipshutz GS, Hiatt J, Ghobrial RM, Farmer DG, Martinez MM, Yersiz H, Gornbein J, Busuttil RW. Outcome of liver transplantation in septuagenarians: a single-center experience.. Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 2007.
  60. Lipshutz GS, Patel S, Hiatt JR, Yersiz H, Farmer DG, McDiarmid SV, Ghobrial RM, Busuttil RW. Portocaval hemitransposition in pediatric liver transplant recipients: a single-center experience.. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 2006.
  61. Cameron AM, Ghobrial RM, Yersiz H, Farmer DG, Lipshutz GS, Gordon SA, Zimmerman M, Hong J, Collins TE, Gornbein J, Amersi F, Weaver M, Cao C, Chen T, Hiatt JR, Busuttil RW. Optimal utilization of donor grafts with extended criteria: a single-center experience in over 1000 liver transplants.. Annals of surgery, 2006.
  62. Ke B, Lipshutz GS, Kupiec-Weglinski JW. Gene therapy in liver ischemia and reperfusion injury.. Current pharmaceutical design, 2006.
  63. Busuttil RW, Farmer DG, Yersiz H, Hiatt JR, McDiarmid SV, Goldstein LI, Saab S, Han S, Durazo F, Weaver M, Cao C, Chen T, Lipshutz GS, Holt C, Gordon S, Gornbein J, Amersi F, Ghobrial RM. Analysis of long-term outcomes of 3200 liver transplantations over two decades: a single-center experience.. Annals of surgery, 2005.
  64. Lipshutz GS, Mahanty H, Feng S, Hirose R, Stock PG, Kang SM, Posselt AM, Freise CE. BKV in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant recipients: a leading cause of renal graft loss in first 2 years post-transplant.. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2005.
  65. Lipshutz GS, Flechner SM, Govani MV, Vincenti F. BK nephropathy in kidney transplant recipients treated with a calcineurin inhibitor-free immunosuppression regimen.. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2004.
  66. Lipshutz GS, Baxter-Lowe LA, Nguyen T, Jones KD, Ascher NL, Feng S. Death from donor-transmitted malignancy despite emergency liver retransplantation.. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 2003.
  67. Brennan TV, Lipshutz GS, Posselt AM, Horn JK. Congenital cleft spleen with CT scan appearance of high-grade splenic laceration after blunt abdominal trauma.. The Journal of emergency medicine, 2003.
  68. Lipshutz GS, Titre D, Brindle M, Bisconte AR, Contag CH, Gaensler KM. Comparison of gene expression after intraperitoneal delivery of AAV2 or AAV5 in utero.. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2003.
  69. Lipshutz GS, Brennan TV, Warren RS. Thorotrast-induced liver neoplasia: a collective review.. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2002.
  70. Brennan TV, Lipshutz GS, Gibbs VC, Norton JA. Total mesenteric excision in the treatment of rectal carcinoma: methods and outcomes.. Surgical oncology, 2002.