Tag: BiP

Physician-Scientist Ying Maggie Chen Receives VA Merit Award

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Medicine, Ying Maggie Chen, MD, PhD, WashU Nephrology, who received a four-year, $1.15M VA Merit Award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.  The funding will support her research on therapeutic targeting of mitochondria in uromodulin-associated chronic kidney disease (CKD).  The $1.15M grant award includes the $750,000 grant (direct costs) […]

New Nanotechnique Monitors ER Stress Biomarker for ADTKD

WashU Nephrology researchers are part of a group of scientists who have used a new technique that significantly boosts detection and quantification of low-abundance molecular biomarkers in urine to study an underdiagnosed cause of kidney disease. Yeawon Kim, a member of the Y. Maggie Chen Lab, is first author of the study titled “Ultrabright Plasmonic-Fluor […]