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If you asked someone on the street how to improve your liver health, they would most likely tell you to cut out alcohol—but that’s not the only answer.

Anyone who knows Fay Simmonds will tell you that she is the supportive backbone of her family. Together with her husband Don, Fay has lived an incredibly busy and rewarding lifestyle, including raising four kids.

An estimated 20 percent of donor livers are being turned away due to seemingly unavoidable damages like sitting on ice too long, being deprived of oxygen, being infected with viruses (such as hepatitis B or C), or being too fatty.

By working together with Canadian researchers, we are proud to be able to support Canada’s research legacy and provide top liver experts as well as promising new investigators and trainees funding to support new advances and breakthroughs.

If liver disease is a jigsaw puzzle, then research is the puzzle pieces. When put in the right sequence these pieces have the ability to create a full and detailed picture…