Annual Event

ASN Kidney Week 2024 Calendar

ASN Kidney Week 2024 and preliminary programs will be held in San Diego, CA, October 22-27, 2024. 

Posters will be presented on Thursday, October 24, Friday, October 25, and Saturday, October 26, from 9:30 AM–2:30 PM, PDT in the exhibit hall.

Educational content will be recorded and posted to view on-demand in late November in the ASN eLearning Center.

Below are WashU Nephrology’s speakers, poster presentations and more!

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Early Program

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Workshop

Anuja Java, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Kidney Transplant Clinic at Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System

Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TMA) Workshop 


The workshop, led by Dr. Java, will feature talks and in-depth panel discussions on “Genetic and Functional Testing in TMA” as well as a discussion of “Novel Therapies for TMA.” 

Tuesday, 10/22/24/24, 12:00-5:00 PM PDT

Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, 1 Market Place, San Diego, CA 92101.


Annual Meeting

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Lectures

Naoka Murakami, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Lecture: Novel Immunomodulatory Approaches to Patients with Advanced Cancer after Kidney Transplant 

Thursday, 10/24/24, 10:30 AM -12:30pm PDT 

Ballroom C (Convention Center)

Clinical Practice Session: Malignancy and kidney transplantation – Evolving Toward Personalized Care

Anuja Java, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Lecture: Role of Complement in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Thrombotic Microangiopathy

Thursday, 10/24/24, 11:30 AM-12:00 PM PDT

Room 6A, (Convention Center)

Clinical Practice Session: Complement Activation in Glomerulonephritis: An Emerging Target in Multiple Diseases


Benjamin Humphreys
, MD, PhD

Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine and Chief, Division of Nephrology

Lecture: Single-Cell and Spatial Modalities in Diabetic Kidney Disease Research

Thursday, 10/24/24, 2:00-4:00 PM PDT 

Room 25 (Convention Center)

Translation Session: RNA-Centric View of Diabetic Kidney Disease in Translation

Posters

Atlee Baker, MD, MPH

Nephrology Fellow

#TH-PO702

Poster #1 Title: Sinister Synergy: IgA Nephropathy and Apixaban 

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#TH-PO179

Poster #2 Title: Muscle-limited Sarcoidosis Presenting as Recurrent Hypercalcemia of Unknown Origin 

Thursday, 10/24/24, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Krutika Chauhan, MBBS, MPH, CPH

Data Coordinator I, Transplant

#TH-PO824

Title: Risk Factors for Death-Censored Graft Loss and Death in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Delayed Graft Function

Thursday, 10/24/24, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

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Moderator – Oral Abstract

Tingting Li, MD, MSCI, FASN

Professor of Medicine

Moderator

Session: Podocytopathies and Membranous Nephropathy: Clinical Advances

Thursday, 10/24/24, 4:30-6:00 PM

Room 1 (Convention Center)


Friday, October 25, 2024

Lectures

Daniel W. Coyne, MD

Professor of Medicine

Lecture: The Science behind HIF-PHI Development: From Bench to Clinical Trials

Friday, 10/25/24, 12:45-1:45P M PDT

Marriott Grand Ballroom B

Symposium: Treatment of Anemia of CKD: What Is the Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Prolyl Hydroxylase Inhibitors?

Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine Director Translational Research

Lecture: Interorgan Communication Drives Remote Organ Inflammation and Dysfunction in Kidney Diseases

Friday, 10/25/24, 2:00-4:00 PM

Room 6B (Convention Center)

Symposium: Interorgan Cross-Talk: Kidney Injury and More

Oral Abstracts

Liam McLaughlin

Research Assistant, Jain Lab

#FR-OR82

Title: Nephro-neurovascular Interactions in the Human Kidney Using Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

Friday, 10/25/24, 4:30-6:00 PM

Room 2 (Convention Center)

Session: Pathology and Lab Medicine Advances

Posters

Kaye Brathwaite, MD

Instructor, Pediatric Nephrology
Physician Scientist, Miner Lab, Wang Lab

# FR-PO743

Title: Identification of Novel Therapeutic Targets for Alport Syndrome using Near Super- resolution Imaging of Podocytes

Friday, 10/25/24, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM 

Yasir Baloch, MBBS

Nephrology Fellow

#FR-PO031

Title: Atypical Abruptio Placentae with AKI: Interventional Dilemma

Friday, 10/25/24, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM 

Dahlia Abdulsattar

GR1 PhD Student

#FR-PO1018

Title: Alginate Microencapsulation Enhances Islet Function by Protecting against IL-1β

Friday, 10/25/24, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM 


Saturday, October 26, 2024

Lectures

Timothy Yau, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Yau will present the Glomerular Disease portion of the Nephrology Quiz and Questionnaire

Saturday, 10/26/24, 2:00-4:00 PM PDT

Ballroom 20D (Convention Center)

Session: Clinical Practice

Dr. Jeffrey Miner

Jeffrey H. Miner, PhD, FASN

Eduardo and Judith Slatopolsky Endowed Professor of Medicine in Nephrology

Lecture: Glomerular Basement Membrane Components in Glomerular Function and Diseases

Saturday 10/26/24, 4:30-6:00 PM PDT

Room 6A (Convention Center)

Translational Session: Opportunities for Therapeutics Targeting the Glomerular Filtration Barrier

Ying (Maggie) Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Lecture: Mesencephalic Astrocyte-Derived Neurotrophic Factor for Treatment of Protein Misfolding Diseases: ADTKD

Saturday, 10/26/24, 2:00-4:00 PM PDT

Room 2 (Convention Center)

Session: Novel Therapeutic Avenues to Explore for ADPKD and Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease

Oral Abstracts

Jeannine Basta, PhD

Assistant Professor of Research

#SA-OR16

Title: Sall1-NuRD cooperate in nephron progenitor cells to determine cell fat

Saturday, 10/26/24, 4:30 – 6:00 PM PDT

Room 2 (Convention Center)

Presentation: 5:30-5:40 PM PDT

Session: Bioengineered Model Systems and Insights in Kidney Development and Function [OR0600]

Poornima Dilhani Ekanayake, PhD 

Postdoc, Herrlich Lab

Presenting co-authors: Yohei Komaru / Andreas Herrlich

#SA-OR08

Title: Circulating Osteopontin (OPN) Released by Kidney Injury Causes Acute and Chronic Hippocampal Neuroinflammation and Behavioral Dysfunction

Saturday, 10/26/24, 4:30 – 6:00 PM PDT

Room 5 (Convention Center)

Presentation: 5:40-5:50 PM PDT

Session: AKI: An Inflamed State of the Union

Posters

Yohei Komaru, PhD

Postdoc, Herrlich lab

#SA-PO077

Title: AKI induces neutrophil swarms in lung alveolar capillaries that cause perfusion deficits and hypoxemia

Saturday, 10/26/24, 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM

Yohei received a ASN Karen L. Campbell Travel Support Program fellowship to attend Kidney Week. As a part of this fellowship, he will serve as a co-mentor for a group of students participating in the Kidney STARS program.

Dian Li

Graduate student, Humphreys Lab

#SA-PO636

Title: Chromatin conformation and histone modification profiling across human kidney anatomic regions

Saturday, 10/26/24, 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM

Anuja Java, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Kidney Transplant Clinic at Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System

#SA-PO800

Title: Pegcetacoplan for Post-transplant Recurrent C3 Glomerulopathy (C3G) or Immune Complex Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (IC-MPGN) in NOBLE: 52-Week Patient Evolution

Saturday, 10/26/24, 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Lectures

Tingting Li, MD, MSCI, FASN

Professor of Medicine

Lecture: New Insights and Therapeutic Opportunities in Immune-Mediated Glomerular Diseases: The 30,000-Foot View

Sunday, 10/27/24, 9:30-11:30 AM PDT

Room 8 (Convention Center)

Basic/Clinical Science Session: Swollen Feet: Immune Mechanisms of Glomerular Diseases

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