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The division welcomed Laurence Beck, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, on October 2.

The Renal Division is now accepting applications for its 2015 Translational Innovation Grant.

Ying (Maggie) Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Renal Division, has been awarded a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Grant.

Washington University School of Medicine announces the first Midwest Transplant Symposium to be held on October 16 and 17 at the Institute of Public Health, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The International Society of Nephrology has officially recognized the relationship between the Washington University Renal Division and the Instituto Guatemalteco de Suguridad Social renal division as a Sister Renal Center Pair.

Fellowship Director Steven Cheng, MD, has been named to a three year term on the ASN Training Program Director’s Executive Committee.

Join @HumphreysLab on a NephJC TwitterChat, hosted by Duke Nephrology faculty member Dr. Matthew Sparks (@Nephro_Sparks).

Please welcome Andrew Malone, MB, BCh, as an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Transplant Nephrology and Internal Medicine) at Washington University School of Medicine.

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.