The American Society of Nephrology will celebrate its 50-year fight against kidney disease at its annual meeting, to be held this year at the Chicago Convention Center in Chicago, IL, November 15-20, 2016. Highlighting the annual meeting are the daily State-of-the-Art Lectures and the Endowed Lectureships, one of which will be presented by our Division […]
Author: Cynthia Ritter
Steven Cheng to Participate in ASN 2016 Podcast
Steven Cheng, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, will take part in a podcast that will be broadcasted during the upcoming ASN Kidney Week 2016 in Chicago, IL, Nov 15-20, 2016. Kidney Week Program Committee Chair Roy Zent, MD, PhD will host the podcast. Dr. Cheng will be recorded along with two or three other […]
Herrlich Awarded $1.125M Grant from NIDDK to Study ADAM17
Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, has received a five-year $1.125 million grant from NIDDK to fund a research project titled The Role of Adam17 Substrates in Progressive Kidney Disease. Preliminary studies show that proximal tubular ADAM17-cleaved substrates promote progressive kidney disease. The goal of Dr. Herrlich’s study is to […]
Health Fest 2016 – NKF Free Kidney Screenings
The National Kidney Foundation will be participating in the Health Fest 2016 Balanced Living this Saturday, October 15, 2016 at Hazelwood East High School, 11300 Dunn Rd., St. Louis. The event is organized by Shalom Church. This is the 5th year Health Fest has partnered with the NKF. Nearly 900 people attend the Health Fest […]
MANF: Urine Biomarker for Kidney ER Stress
Certain environmental and genetic factors can disrupt endoplasmic reticulum (ER) function and result in a situation called “ER stress”, in which misfolded/unfolded proteins accumulate in the ER lumen. Prolonged or intense ER stress contributes to the pathogenesis of a variety of glomerular and tubular diseases in humans, such as congenital nephrotic syndrome, familial focal segmental […]
Finding Gives Hope of Treatment for Arterial Calcification in CKD Patients
An exciting, new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, and RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany, has identified the cells responsible for the vascular calcification seen in CKD. This finding is of particular importance because vascular calcification is […]
Slatopolsky to receive NKF Award of Excellence
The National Kidney Foundation is honoring Eduardo Slatopolsky, MD, Professor Emeritus, Division of Nephrology, with the 2016 Award of Excellence at their 30th Annual NKF Gala, to be held November 12 at the Hilton Saint Louis at the Ballpark. Dr. Slatopolsky’s contributions to the understanding of the pathophysiology of secondary hyperparathyroidism, hyperphosphatemia and vitamin D […]
3rd Paul Mennes, MD Memorial St. Louis City-Wide Renal Grand Rounds Dinner
The City-Wide Renal Grand Rounds Dinner, co-hosted by the Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine and the Renal Division at Saint Louis University School of Medicine will be held Thursday, October 27, 2016. The City-Wide Grand Rounds was started over 15 years ago by Steven Bander, MD, an alum of the Nephrology Fellowship […]
Drs. Jain and Gaut Co-Authors of Award-Winning Book Diagnostic Pathology: Kidney Diseases, 2nd Edition
Congratulations to Sanjay Jain, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and renal pathologist Joseph Gaut, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pathology & Immunology, co-authors of the book Diagnostic Pathology: Kidney Diseases, 2nd Edition, which was just awarded First Prize in the British Medical Associations (BMA) annual Medical Book Awards. The book (Elsevier 2015, […]
Welcome Virginia Kelly
Virginia Kelly, the division’s new Office Coordinator, brings a wide range of experience, diverse interests, and a wicked sense of humor to the position. Virginia spent 15 years as a communications writer and administrative assistant at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, first in corporate communications and then in provider relations (but she says to […]