Not everyone was fortunate enough to attend the world’s top nephrology meeting – ASN Kidney Week – November 5-10, 2019. Not everyone got to visit thousands of posters depicting the latest scientific and medical advances in nephrology, or listen to leading experts in the field, or meet up with old friends and colleagues, or enjoy […]
ASN Kidney Week 2019 will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC on November 5-10, 2019. Below is a list of our speakers, poster presentations and more! Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN Professor of Medicine Presenter: Using Prolonged Intermittent RRT in the Intensive Care Unit: How Do I […]
Dr. Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine and director of the Division of Nephrology, is the subject of Washington University School of Medicine’s Washington People, a series that profiles individuals throughout the medical campus and community. In the profile, Humphreys talks about the exciting future for the field of […]
The monthly visits from Tucker, an emotional support dog, have been a big hit at North County Dialysis Center, according to Tom Gowen, the nurse manager at the facility. “Our team had been brainstorming for ways to keep our patients engaged when the idea of a therapy support dog came up,” says Tom. It was […]
The Division of Nephrology is proud to announce that four of our faculty members – Patricia Kao, MD, MS, Timothy Yau, MD, Steven Cheng, MD, and Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD – were among 42 Washington University School of Medicine educators inducted into the newly created Academy of Educators. The Academy of Educators is led by […]
The 4th Midwest Transplant & Nephrology Symposium, headed by Tarek Alhamad, MD, MS, medical director of transplant nephrology at Washington University, was a huge success. “This was the most successful transplant symposiums to date,” says Dr. Alhamad. “We offered 10 travel grants to nephrology fellow from all around the US, and sponsored one fellow from […]
Ying Maggie Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, is the recipient of a 2-year, $300,000 Mallinckrodt Challenge Grant for her study “Targeting Podocyte Dysfunctional Ryanodine Receptor to Treat Nephrotic Syndrome.” “The overall goals of this proposal are to determine the molecular mechanisms underlying increased podocyte endoplasmic reticulum (ER) calcium efflux under ER stress […]
In 2018, we introduced you to Chase Cofer, a young man and lover of music who doesn’t let his rare genetic syndrome (a spingosine-1-phosphate lyase mutation) and subsequent kidney failure keep him down. Chase, a dialysis patient at Chromalloy Dialysis Center, has worked hard to keep a positive attitude, and it has paid off. He […]
The Division of Nephrology is pleased to announce that Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Tingting Li has joined our fellowship leadership program as Associate Program Director for Clinical Research and Career Development. In this new position, Dr. Li will join Dr. Steven Cheng, Training Program Director – Nephrology Fellowship, and Dr. Seth Goldberg, Associate Program […]
Jeffrey Miner, PhD, Professor of Medicine, WU Division of Nephrology, has been awarded a three-year, $449,500, Core Large Initiative grant by the Children’s Discovery Institute (CDI) that will fund the new the Pediatric Disease Mouse Models Core (PDMMC). The core will generate mouse models of pediatric disease using state-of-the-art CRISPR/Cas9 and ROSA-TALEN technologies. The PDMMC […]