ASN Kidney Week returns November 5-9, 2025, in Houston, TX.
There will be no virtual or hybrid option this year; however, recorded educational content will be available on demand on the ASN eLearning Center in late November or early December.
- View the program information for Early Programs (Wednesday, Nov 5) and the Annual Meeting (Thursday – Sun, Nov 6-9).
- Browse or download the Kidney Week 2025 Abstracts.
WashU Nephrology will once again be strongly represented, with our faculty, fellows, and staff sharing cutting-edge research through oral and poster presentations, leading sessions and workshops, and more!
We invite you to explore the impressive lineup of WashU Nephrology participants below.
Unless stated otherwise, all events will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Times are listed in Central Standard Time.
Wednesday
Nov 5 – Early Program
Anuja Java, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Kidney Transplant Clinic at Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System
Lecture: Unraveling the Genetics of Thrombotic Microangiopathy
Wed Nov 5, 2025
11:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room 310A
Session: Genetics in Clinical Nephrology
Workshop
Dr. Java is also conducting the 2025 USTMA Nephrology Dinner Series, a two-day workshop held in conjunction with ASN Kidney Week. This program will feature expert-led sessions, interactive case discussions, and panel conversations designed to advance understanding and practice in complement-mediated kidney diseases. Dinner will be provided for all in-person attendees.
(6:40 – 9:30 PM both days.)
Wed Nov 5, 2025 – Marriott Marquis Houston, 1777 Walker Street, Houston, TX 77010
Topic: Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TMA)
Thurs Nov 6, 2025 – Hilton Americas-Houston, 1600 Lamar Street, Houston, TX 77010
Topic: C3 Glomerulopathy (C3G)
Lisa Koester Wiedemann, CS, MSN, ANP, CNN-NP
Nurse Practitioner
@lisakoester11
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Room 320A
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025
1:45 – 2:15 pm
Room 320A
Lecture and panel in Session: Home Dialysis: Expanding Access to Home Therapies in 2025 and Beyond
Naoka Murakami, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, SOAR internship program
Lecture: Recurrent Disease and Monoclonal Gammopathies After Kidney Transplantation
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025
1:50 – 02:05 PM
Grand Ballroom A
Lecture: What to Do with a Failing Transplant
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025
3:35 – 3:50 PM
Grand Ballroom A
Both lectures in Session: Care of Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients
Thursday
Nov 6, 2025
Muhammad Yasir Baloch, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Fellowship Outreach and Recruitment
@Myasirbaloch
#TH-PO0023
Thursday, Nov 6, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Kaye Brathwaite, MD
Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology, Hypertension & Apheresis
Physician Scientist, Miner Lab, Wang Lab
@KayeBrathwaite
Poster: Maintenance of Podocyte Slit-Diaphragm Integrity in Alport Syndrome After Restoration of the GBM
#TH-PO0593
Thursday, Nov 6, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: Monogenic Kidney DIsease: Glomerular
Poornima Dilhani Ekanayake, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar Herrlich Lab
Oral Abstract Presentation: Neuroinflammation and Neurological Dysfunction After AKI Is Driven by Kidney-Released Osteopontin and Not Uremia
#TH-OR009
Thursday, Nov 6, 2025
5:50 – 6:00 PM
Room 320A
Session: AKI Progression and Resolution: Cellular and Molecular Insights
Sanjay Jain, MD, PhD
Professor:
-Medicine, Nephrology
-Pathology and Immunology
-Pediatrics
Director, Kidney Translational Research Center
Lecture: Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) Kidney Tissue Atlas 2.0
Thurs Nov 6, 2025
10:30 AM-11:00 PM
Room 310A
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Session: Kidney Tissue Genomics Revolution
Jeffrey H. Miner, PhD, FASN
Eduardo and Judith Slatopolsky Endowed Professor of Medicine in Nephrology
Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology
@JeffMinerPhD
#TH-PO0595
Thursday, Nov 6, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: Monogenic Kidney DIsease: Glomerular
Rupal Ojha, PhD
Postdoc Research Associate
Herrlich Lab
@OjhaRupal
*Dr. Ojha was awarded a £400 travel grant from The Company of Biologists, through its journal Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), to support attendance at ASN Kidney Week 2025 in Houston, TX.
#TH-PO0142
Thursday, Nov 6, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: AKI Mechanisms – 1
Katerina Trachtova, BS
DCBRM Postbaccalaureate Researcher
Pediatric Nephrology
Sanjay Jain Lab
Oral Abstract Presentation: Pediatric Multiomic and Spatial Kidney Atlas Identifies Regulatory Networks Driving Postnatal Kidney Maturation
#TH-OR030
Thursday, Nov 6, 2025
4:50 – 5:00 PM
Room 360A
Session: Genetics of Complex Kidney Traits
Zainulabdeen Alsaedi, MD
Transplant Nephrology Fellow
Poster to be manned by colleagues
Poster: Coexistence of Minimal Change Disease and Acquired Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: A Case Report
#TH-PO0856
Thursday, Nov 6, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: Glomerular Case Reports: Potpourri
Friday
Nov 7, 2025
Yili Fang, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Ying Maggie Chen laboratory
Oral Abstract Presentation: Mesencephalic Astrocyte-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Orchestrates Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)-Mitochondrial Calcium Homeostasis in Genetic CKD
#FR-OR048
Friday, Nov 7, 2025
4:50 – 5:00 PM
Room 360A
Session: Monogenic Kidney Disease: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Approaches
Benjamin D. Humphreys, MD, PhD
Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine and Chief, Division of Nephrology
@HumphreysLab
With Leslie Gewin, MD, FASN and Jeffrey Miner, PhD, FASN
Poster: Washington University Kidney O’Brien National Resource Center for CKD Research
#INFO08-FR
Friday, Nov 7, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: Informational Posters 2
Jeffrey H. Miner, PhD, FASN
Eduardo and Judith Slatopolsky Endowed Professor of Medicine in Nephrology
Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology
@JeffMinerPhD
Poster: CD2-Associated Protein Expression in Podocytes Regulates Cell Contractility and Contributes to Cell Attachment
#FR-PO0759
Poster: Identification of a Novel Tropomyosin Isoform Linked to Sarcomere-Like Structure in Injured Podocytes
#FR-PO0769
Poster: Spontaneous Podocyte Injury and Progressive Proteinuria in LifeAct Mice
#FR-PO0791
Poster: Heterozygous Col4a3 Mutation Increases Susceptibility to Doxorubicin-Induced Podocytopathy
#FR-PO0792
Session: Glomerular Diseases: Cell Homeostasis and Novel Injury Mechanisms
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Poster Washington University Kidney O’Brien National Resource Center for CKD Research
(With Leslie Gewin, MD, FASN and Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, FASN):
#INFO08-FR
Session: Informational Posters 2
All posters Friday, Nov 7, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Pongpratch Puapatanakul, MD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar Miner Lab
Poster: Distinct Patterns of Sarcomere-Like Structures in Podocyte Foot Processes in Patients with Diverse Forms of Nephrotic Syndrome
#FR-PO0770
Friday, Nov 7, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: Glomerular Diseases: Cell Homeostasis and Novel Injury Mechanisms
Rohan Singh Paul, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
@rohanspaul
Poster: Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Tubular Injury States and Immune-Epithelial Cross-Talk in Murine Obstructive Nephropathy
#FR-PO0167
Friday, Nov 7, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: AKI Mechanisms – 1
Zainulabdeen Alsaedi, MD
Transplant Nephrology Fellow
Poster to be manned by colleagues
Poster: Effect of Nephrology Consultation on Hyponatremia Outcomes and Length of Hospital Stay
#FR-PO0587
Friday, Nov 7, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disorders: Clinical – 2
Dema Yaseen Alsabbagh, MD
Research Fellow, Transplant Nephrology
Poster: Evolving Trends in Kidney Discard from Hepatitis C–Positive Donors Following the KDPI Formula Change
#FR-PO1002
Friday, Nov 7, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: Transplantation: Clinical – Pretransplantation, Living Donation, and Policies
Saturday
Nov 8, 2025
Leslie Gewin, MD, FASN
Professor of Medicine
@LeslieGewin
Lecture: Unraveling the Mechanisms of Fatty Acid Oxidation in CKM Syndrome: Central Role of Peroxisomes
Saturday, Nov 8, 2025
5:30 -5:50 PM
General Assembly B
Session: Emerging Mechanisms of AKI in Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome
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Poster: Washington University Kidney O’Brien National Resource Center for CKD Research
(With Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, FASN, MD, and Jeffrey Miner, PhD, FASN)
#INFO08-FR
Friday, Nov 7, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: AKI Mechanisms – 1
Chenjian Gu, PhD
Postdoc Research Associate
Ying Maggie Chen Lab
Poster: Impaired Autophagy in Human Kidney Organoids of Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease
#SA-PO06248
Saturday, Nov 8, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Benjamin D. Humphreys, MD, PhD, FASN
Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine and Chief of the Division of Nephrology
@HumphreysLab
Lecture: Epigenetic Reprogramming in AKI
Saturday, Nov 8, 2025
2:00 – 2:30 PM
General Assembly B
Session: Therapeutics in AKI: From Bench to Bedside, Including the Burton D. Rose, MD, Endowed Lectureship
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Poster: Uncovering the Role of Perilipin-2 in Successful Repair of Proximal Tubules Following Injury
#SA-PO0151
Saturday, Nov 8, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: AKI: Mechanisms – 3
Maheen Khan, MBBS
Nephrology Fellow, 2nd year
With Nicole Shammas, MD
Poster: Rare Case of C3 Glomerulopathy in Castleman Disease
#SA-PO0184
Saturday, Nov 8, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: Onconephrology: MGRS, HSCT, Electrolytes, RCC, and More
Tingting Li, MD, MSCI, FASN
Professor of Medicine
Associate Clinical Chief, Division of Nephrology
Director, Glomerular Center of Excellence
@Ting2li
Poster: Expert Consensus on the Likelihood and Treatment of Inflammatory and Fibrotic IgA Nephropathy
#SA-PO0765
Saturday, Nov 8, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Session: Glomerular Research: Design, Registries, Surveys, and Epidemiology
Qiao Xuanyuan, PhD
DBBS Graduate Research Assistant
Humphreys Lab
Lecture: AKI to CKD Transition Viewed Through the Spatial Lens
Saturday, Nov 8, 2025
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Room 362A
Session: Decoding AKI: The Omics Revolution
Timothy Yau, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
@Maximal_Change
Nephrology Quiz and Questionnaire 2025
Presentation: Dr. Yau will deliver the glomerular disease portion of this interactive session, which begins with an expert presenting cases, followed by several quiz questions for the audience. Topics include electrolytes, GN, kidney transplantation, and CKD and kidney replacement therapy.
Saturday, Nov 8, 2025
2:30 – 3:00 PM
General Assembly C
Session: Clinical Practice
Sunday
Nov 9, 2025
Tingting Li, MD, MSCI, FASN
Professor of Medicine
Associate Clinical Chief, Division of Nephrology
Director, Glomerular Center of Excellence
@Ting2li
Moderator: Controversies in Glomerular Disease Therapeutics
Sunday, Nov 9, 2025
9:30 – 11:30 AM
Room 342D
Session: Clinical Practice Session
