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Nephrologist Kathleen Liu, MD, PhD, MAS, Professor of Medicine and Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, will be the guest speaker at the 2024 Eduardo Slatopolsky Lectureship in Renal and Electrolyte Disorders. The event will be held at Medicine Grand Rounds, Thursday, March 21, at 8am in Clopton Auditorium.  Dr. Liu will discuss […]

The 12th NephMadness is officially underway. The month-long event, hosted by AJKD Blog, is an online, interactive, educational activity modeled on March Madness, the annual US college basketball tournament, with the exception that nephrology topics fill in for basketball teams.  Social media tools are used to encourage a good-natured, robust discussion about the latest news […]

Atlee Baker, MD, MPH a first-year fellow at WashU Nephrology, has accepted an internship with the Transforming Dialysis Access Together (TDAT) initiative of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN).  Falling under the umbrella of the Excellence in Patient Care Advisory Committee, TDAT aims to enhance the quality of life for patients with kidney failure by […]

Congratulations to Safaa Hammoud, PhD, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the laboratory of Leslie Gewin, MD, for receiving a 2024 American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship.  The award provides two years of funding for her project “Blocking Tubular Cell Cycle Induces Protective Metabolic Changes in Chronic Kidney Disease.”   After receiving her PhD in pharmacology […]

WashU Nephrology Nurse Practitioner Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, MSN, CS, CNN-NP, and Clinical Nurse Coordinator of Home Modalities Cheryl Cress, RN, CNN, will participate in the Annual Dialysis Conference (ADC) program being held March 8-10, 2024. Now in its 44th year, the ADC hosts an international community of practitioners and researchers to explore both the fundamental principles […]

WashU Nephrology gathered for a potluck lunch on Monday, February 12, 2024, to celebrate the Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, as we enter the Year of the Wood Dragon. The celebration gave everyone the chance to eat, relax, and mingle.  Many thanks to Meei-Hua Lin, a senior scientist in the […]

Please join our team, the Noble Nephrons, at the 2024 St. Louis National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Kidney Walk, which will take place 11:00 am, March 24, 2024, at 111 West Port Plaza Dr., St. Louis, MO 63146.  All WashU faculty, staff and patients are welcome to participate by walking, volunteering or donating.  Team captains, Carrie Koeller, MSW, […]

Registration is open for the FEBS Advanced Lecture Course – Molecular Mechanisms of Interorgan Crosstalk in Health and Disease – to be held May 9-17, 2024, in Spetses, Greece.  Course organizers include Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, Director of Translational Medicine at Washington University Division of  Nephrology, Francois Leulier, PhD,Director,Institute for Functional Genomics, Lyon, France, and […]

Congratulations to Washington University transplant nephrologist Anuja Java, MD, who was recently elected as Secretary of the Women in Nephrology (WIN) organization for 2024-2026.  WIN, founded in 1983, promotes professional development, mentorship, and education for women and men in nephrology.   Java has extensive experience in the WIN organization.  In 2022, she was elected to […]

Shayna Bradford, PhD, a WashU Nephrology post-doctoral research scholar in the Humphreys Laboratory, has been awarded a two-year, $181,500 MOSAIC K99/R00 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  The MOSAIC (Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers)grant program is designed to […]

The Dr. Kevin J Martin Winter 2024 City-Wide Renal Grand Rounds Dinner, hosted by Washington University School of Medicine Division of Nephrology and St. Louis University School of Medicine Division of Nephrology, and co-hosted by the Eastern MO National Kidney Foundation, will be held Thursday, January 25, 2024. The event allows area nephrologists to gather […]

A new clinic at WashU Nephrology will focus on helping patients with a genetic form of renal fibrosis – autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease (ADTKD) – which ultimately leads to chronic kidney disease (CKD). After exclusion of polycystic kidney disease and Alport syndrome, ADTKD represents as many as 25% of patients with inherited kidney disease. […]

The newly-established Washington University Kidney O’Brien Center for Chronic Kidney Disease Research is proud to announce it is accepting applications for its immersive summer research program for undergraduate students interested in pursuing nephrology research. The Summer Opportunities for Achievement in Research (SOAR) program will provide interns with the opportunity to get hands-on experience in basic […]

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a highly under-recognized disease that affects almost 15% of the US population and carries significant morbidity and mortality.  Although important scientific advances promise to accelerate CKD research, many are not accessible to the kidney research community due to limited expertise and/or the need for expensive equipment. A new Center at […]

While spending time at Forest Park Kidney Center this week, Thomas F. Gowen, RN, the current Nurse Manager of our Village Square Dialysis Center, found inspiration for a poem: “This center knows how to get the patients involved and have a good time!” says Gowen.  “So. Many.  Smiles!!! The Christmas Bingo event is popular with […]