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The Division of Nephrology is proud to announce that second year fellows Fahad Edrees, MD, and Usman Younus, MD, have both been accepted to the Critical Care Fellowship here at Washington University next year.  Critical Care Medicine is a rapidly growing subspecialty.  Physicians with training in critical care are referred to as “intensivists” and are […]

Dan Brennan, MD, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Renal Diseases, likens the fight against viruses in the kidney transplant patient to a mythological battle.  “Just when we think we are beginning to understand one of these viruses, when we have cut off one of the heads of the viral Hydra, then two […]

Program Director’s Meeting – Hot Topics from the Training Program Exchange > Wednesday, November 16 > Moderator > Hot Topics from the Training Program Exchange > 5:35 p.m. > BR C/D     Critical Care Nephrology: Using Prolonged Intermittent RRT in the ICU: How Do I Prescribe It, and When Do I Use It? Wednesday, November 16 […]

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 […]