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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

St. Louis was #2 in the nation for fastest growing rate of new startups in a metropolitan area. St. Louis had 4,876 new start-ups in 2014. In a survey of entrepreneurs, the Census Bureau found that 30% of new businesses in Missouri are in health care. Additionally, women own a larger number of startups in […]

ASN has added another dedicated site – the AKI Community – to its line of discussion groups, and nephrologist Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, Professor of Medicine in our division, will be one of the initial co-moderators guiding the conversation. “The AKI community subgroup was created specifically to provoke thoughtful discussion among community members who have […]

We are pleased to introduce another new member of our division, Celia Dehn, the Senior Department Accounting Assistant who will be handling the purchasing/accounting functions for the division.  Prior to coming to the Division of Nephrology, Celia worked in the Department of Pathology & Immunology for 28 years.  Working at WashU is a family affair; […]

One of the new faces you may have noticed in the division these past months is Hatice Goshtaiy, our new Research Administrator.  Hatice has been with WashU since 2005.  She worked in the Central Grants Office (OSRS) as a Grant Analyst and then moved on to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology as a Grant […]