Charles Bernard Anderson, MD, the surgeon who in 1973 performed the first kidney transplant at Barnes Hospital, died November 7, 2016, of congestive heart failure, at the age of 78. Dr. Anderson was a pioneer of donor-specific transfusions and immunologic tolerance in kidney transplantation, which transformed the field of organ transplantation. He founded the Kidney […]
Author: Cynthia Ritter
Risk of Kidney Transplant Rejection Increases with Reactivation of Polyomavirus
A new study by WU researchers is one of the largest to simultaneously evaluate 10-year outcomes in three important areas of kidney transplantation: calcineurin inhibitor-based immunosuppression, polyomavirus reactivation, and immune responses to kidney-specific self-antigens fibronectin (FN) and collagen type-IV (Col-IV). The study, headed by Daniel C. Brennan, MD, FACP, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff […]
Humphreys, Coyne and Yau in the Running for 2016 NephJC Kidney Awards
The Renal Fellow Network (RFN), a website written for renal fellows by renal fellows will announce the NephJC Kidney Awards, Friday, November 18, at the “Tweet-up” at Benny’s Chop House in Chicago, IL. Past honors have been awarded for the best social media participation during ASN Kidney Week, but this year several new categories are […]
Angiopoietin-1 Mitigates Renal Fibrosis
Angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1), a vascular growth factor secreted by kidney proximal tubular cells, pericytes and podocytes, is essential for regulating blood vessel development and repair after injury. Ang-1 is also a promising therapeutic agent to target renal fibrosis, according to a study by WU researchers recently published in PLoSOne, As a result of injury to the […]
Slatopolsky and Miner to be Honored at ASN’s 50th Anniversary
The American Society of Nephrology will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year at ASN Kidney Week, November 14-20, 2016, in Chicago, IL. As part of the celebration, the society will recognize all award recipients from the last half-century. Among those to be honored are two members of our division, Jeffrey Miner, PhD, FASN, Professor of […]
Tim Yau Receives ASN Innovation in Kidney Education Award for His Renal Pathology Web Series
Congratulations to faculty member Timothy Yau, MD, who has just been awarded the 2016 ASN Innovation in Kidney Education Award for his Washington University in St. Louis Nephrology Web Video Series. The competition, launched in 2015, encourages development of innovative approaches to teach medical students, residents and fellows about kidney health and disease. Applicants are judged […]
MesoAmerican Nephropathy Project: Partnership of WU and Guatemalan Nephrologists
A group from Washington University involved in a collaborative effort to combat an epidemic of chronic kidney disease in Latin America recently returned from scientific conferences in Guatemala City, Guatemala. MesoAmerican Nephropathy (MeN) is an unexplained epidemic of CKD prevalent on the Pacific coast of Latin American, particularly Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Costa Rica. […]
Critical Care Fellowships Awarded to Nephrologists Younus and Edrees
The Division of Nephrology is proud to announce that second year fellows Fahad Edrees, MD, and Usman Younus, MD, have both been accepted to the Critical Care Fellowship here at Washington University next year. Critical Care Medicine is a rapidly growing subspecialty. Physicians with training in critical care are referred to as “intensivists” and are […]
Battling the Viral Hydra – Brennan Guest Editor of Seminars in Nephrology Issue on Kidney Transplantation and Viral Infection
Dan Brennan, MD, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Renal Diseases, likens the fight against viruses in the kidney transplant patient to a mythological battle. “Just when we think we are beginning to understand one of these viruses, when we have cut off one of the heads of the viral Hydra, then two […]
ASN Kidney Week – WU Nephrology Lectures, Moderators, Posters and Podcast
Program Director’s Meeting – Hot Topics from the Training Program Exchange > Wednesday, November 16 > Moderator > Hot Topics from the Training Program Exchange > 5:35 p.m. > BR C/D Critical Care Nephrology: Using Prolonged Intermittent RRT in the ICU: How Do I Prescribe It, and When Do I Use It? Wednesday, November 16 […]