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Anuja Java, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Nephrology, has been researching rare complement diseases and their involvement in kidney damage for nearly a decade.  Little did she know when 2020 began that her expertise would put her in prime position to help tackle one of our greatest medical challenges – COVID-19. Early in […]

The Division of Nephrology and the Center of Regenerative Medicine (CRM) at Washington University in St. Louis have partnered to offer two seed grants for projects that focus on kidney disease and regenerative medicine. The $20,000, one-year grants are open to WashU employees at the level of postdoctoral fellow, instructor, or early-career assistant professors who […]

ASN Kidney Week 2020 Reimagined debuts as a fully virtual meeting October 19-21 (early programs) and October 22-25 (annual meeting) and will consist of a variety of simulive, live-streamed, and on-demand sessions/posters/exhibits.   All meeting content will be available on the Kidney Week Reimagined website until December 4, 2020.  Simulive and live-streamed educational content will […]

While choosing home dialysis is becoming more attractive and feasible for patients who begin dialysis each year to treat end-stage renal disease (ESRD), only 10% of the 726,000 Americans suffering from the disease are currently on peritoneal or home hemodialysis. This is far below the goal of the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative (AAKH), an […]

Ying Maggie Chen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology, Washington University, has been appointed as a special government employee to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) Nephrology Subcommittee. Subcommittee members provide scientific peer review of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research program applications submitted to Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development […]

WashU Nephrology welcomes Kristy Bingaman, our new Fellowship Program office coordinator.  Kristy will be taking over for Kim Knolhoff, who will retire in November after being with the division for 22 years. Kristy has over 15 years of experience managing residency and fellowship training programs for both WashU and Saint Louis University.  Her most recent […]

Congratulations to two WashU Nephrology researchers for having their work highlighted on the covers of recent publications.  This is the second such cover for each in two years! Meei-Hua Lin, PhD, a senior scientist in the Jeffrey Miner Laboratory, is first author of the article “Mammalian hemicentin 1 is assembled into tracks in the extracellular […]

WashU Nephrology welcomes Wut Yi Hninn, MBBS, to our Transplant Training Program. Wut Yi earned her medical degree from the Institute of Medicine 1, Yangon, in Myanmar.  She completed her residency at Interfaith Medical Center, in Brooklyn, NY, and a fellowship in nephrology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. A driving […]

Congratulations to second-year WashU Nephrology fellow Blessing Osondu, MD, who has been accepted into the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship offered through the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, here at Washington University.  Dr. Osondu will enter the one-year fellowship upon completion of her nephrology fellowship in 2021.  “I am overjoyed with excitement […]

There is still time to sign up for the Virtual Renal Roundtable Lecture this Thursday, August 27, 2020, featuring Tarek Alhamad, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine, Division of Nephrology, and medical director of the Pancreas and Kidney Transplant Programs at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The lecture series, held via Zoom this year, is a professional […]

It’s been an eventful year of learning, hard work, and battling the COVID-19 pandemic.  As new fellows are welcomed into the WashU Nephrology training program, two of our second-year fellows – Drs. Gonzalo Matzumura and Sana Javeed Shaikh – reflect on their time here in the division and in St. Louis. Gonzalo, born and raised […]

Welcome to former renal fellow Andy Chuu, MD, who has joined the faculty of WashU Nephrology and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System.  Currently a clinical instructor, he will be promoted to assistant professor of medicine on October 1, 2020. Born in St. Louis, MO, Dr. Chuu completed his undergraduate studies in […]

The Division of Nephrology welcomes assistant professor of medicine Massini Merzkani, MD, to the WashU Transplant Nephrology team.  His clinical interests include long-term renal allograft survival, recurrence of glomerulonephritis after transplantation, and complications related to kidney transplantation.  After earning his medical degree from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, Merzkani completed a residency in internal medicine […]

Congratulations to two of our WashU Nephrology investigators who recently received career development awards. Eirini Kefalogianni, PhD, Instructor in Medicine, recently received a three-year, $231,000 (total), Career Development Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) to study the roles of cellular and circulating Tumor-Necrosis-Factor-Receptors 1 and 2 (TNFR1/2) in kidney disease.  Her application was ranked at […]

WashU Nephrology welcomes Munis Azim Mattu, M.D. to our Transplant Training Program (@WUTransplant), one of the largest and most experienced kidney transplant centers in the United States. Munis’ primary interest in transplant nephrology stems from the intricacies in the management of the host, who “has received a precious gift of organ donation” to recoup the […]