Ying Maggie Chen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology, is the recipient of a $40K (direct costs), one year, renewable UAB-UCSD O’Brien Center Pilot Award to study therapies for acute kidney injury (AKI). Renal ischemia-reperfusion injury is the leading cause of AKI in both native and transplanted kidneys. Evidence shows that tubular endoplasmic reticulum […]
The Division of Nephrology at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to welcome our 2021 renal transplant fellows. Karen Marie G. Flores, MD, comes to us from the nephrology fellowship program at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Columbus. Karen earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Trinity University of Asia – St. […]
Several members of WashU Nephrology recently participated in the 2021 National Kidney Foundation’s Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM). The annual meeting, held virtually again this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the only conference of its kind that focuses on translating science into practice for the entire healthcare team. Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, MSN, CS, CNN-NP, a […]
WashU Nephrology congratulates Associate Professor of Medicine Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, who received a four-year, $660,000 VA Merit Award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that will fund his work on “Remote Injury Responses after Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).” The VA Merit Award, equal in standing to an R01 grant from the National Institutes […]
Washington University Division of Nephrology faculty members Tingting Li, MD, MSCI, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, Professor of Medicine, have been chosen to serve on multiple American Society of Nephrology (ASN) committees. Dr. Li is serving on the Publications Committee through 2022. The committee oversees current and future ASN publishing enterprises, […]
Jeannine Basta, PhD, Assistant Professor of Research in the Division of Nephrology, and Brian Wong, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, are recipients of the inaugural seed grants awarded through the partnership of the Division of Nephrology and the Center of Regenerative Medicine (CRM) at Washington University in St. Louis. The grants are […]
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 […]
Being Prepared Even before the first COVID-19 positive patient was identified in the St. Louis area, the Division of Nephrology was preparing for the coming crisis knowing that it would be a matter of when it would happen, not if it would happen. The Division had a unified goal: continue to deliver superb clinical care […]
Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Washington University in St. Louis and medical director of Acute Dialysis Services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Honor Medical Society. The only national medical honor society in the world, the AΩA was organized in 1902 […]
Research physician Monica Chang-Panesso, MD, and a team of Washington University nephrology investigators have made significant progress in defining the cellular lineage and molecular mechanism of repair of the proximal tubule after acute kidney injury (AKI). Their study, FOXM1 Drives Proximal Tubule Proliferation During Repair from Acute Ischemic Kidney Injury, five years in the making, […]