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Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine and Chief, Division of Nephrology, will be one of the speakers at the Organoid & Tissue Models of Human Diseases symposium to be held May 7, 2019, 9 am – 1:30 pm, at the Eric P Newman Educational Center, Seminar Room B. “The […]

Attention, PhD students and Postdocs! It’s not too late to sign up for the EMBO-FEBS lecture course Molecular Mechanisms of Tissue Injury, Repair and Fibrosis, to be held May 23-31, 2019, on the Greek Island of Spetses. The head organizer of the course is Associate Professor of Medicine Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, Division of Nephrology, […]

Washington University Division of Nephrology announces the fourth Midwest Transplant & Nephrology Symposium to be held on October 11 – 13, 2019 at the Institute of Public Health, St. Louis, MO. The popular symposium will present an in-depth review of the most clinically-encountered topics in transplantation and provide hands-on workshops to allow participants to build […]

It didn’t take long for the new laboratory space to fill up once the Division of Nephrology relocated to its new location on the 8th floor of the McDonnell Medical Science Building. The 7th floor of the Wohl Clinic building had been the home for the Division of Nephrology for well over 50 years.  As […]

Andrew Malone, MB, BCh, will speak at the 2nd Annual GTAC@MGI Symposium – A New Era in Washington University Genomics – being held at the Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 10am-3pm.  The symposium is hosted by Washington University’s McDonnell Genome Institute (MGI) and Genome Technology Access Center (GTAC). Malone and […]

Patients were recently greeted at Chromalloy American Kidney Center (CAKC) to what Brenda Bingel, RN, MSN, calls “Lobby Days,” an event organized to bring more attention to the occurrence of depression in dialysis patients. Brenda, Nurse Administrator at CAKC, Kelly Lazarus, LMSW, and Jackie Holschen, LCSW, decorated the waiting room lobby with posters detailing common […]

The Division of Nephrology gives a warm welcome to Betty Jean Smith (she prefers Jean), who joins us as Special Project Administrator. Jean has worked at Washington University for 20 years.  She was is Alumni Relations for seven years before transferring to the Department of Orthopedic Research, where she was the Administrative Coordinator for the […]

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) annual Kidney Walk, involving over 5,500 teams, 85,000 individuals, at nearly 100 locations across the country this past Sunday, March 24, 2019, was a rousing success.  Nationwide, the event raised over $136,000 (88%) of the goal of $155,000. That, of course, was with the help of the Washington University nephrology […]

The 7th annual NephMadness is under way!  NephMadness, hosted by AJKD Blog, is an online interactive medical education activity modeled on March Madness, the NCAA college basketball tournament, except with nephrology concepts. Using social media, interactivity, and gamification, the nearly month-long tournament encourages a good-natured, robust discussion of the latest advances and the most important […]

The annual celebration of World Kidney Day is underway.  The global campaign, a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations, raises awareness of the prevalence of kidney disease and the need for strategies for kidney disease prevention and management. The event takes place the second Thursday of […]