Author: stephanie

Congratulations! The following 19 individuals from the Renal Division recently received Length of Service Awards from the Department of Medicine.

Benjamin D. Humphreys, MD, PhD, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has accepted the position of Chief of the Renal Diseases Division in the Department of Medicine

James Delmez, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Renal Division and Medical Director of the Chromalloy American Kidney Center, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Jianghui Hou, PhD, and colleagues have recently identified a mechanism in the mammalian kidney that utilizes the Kelch-like protein 3 (KLHL3)-dependent ubiiquitination pathway to regulate claudin-8 and the paracellular pathway for chloride permeability.

Ying (Maggie) Chen MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine (Renal), has been selected as a recipient of a 2015 Early Career Development Award from the Central Society for Clinical and Translational Research.

Three Renal Division faculty members were selected by the Washington University School of Medicine Class of 2017 for teaching awards.

Jianghui Hou, PhD, and his colleagues have discovered a pathway in the kidney that utilizes channel-activating protease 1 and claudin-4 to physiologically regulate tight junction permeability to chloride.

Recently a group of Renal Division faculty members, Washington University faculty, staff and residents traveled to Guatemala for scientific meetings and interchange.