Tag: de novo

Division of Nephrology Receives Two McDonnell Genome Institute Pilot Project Awards

Congratulations to Division of Nephrology members Hani Suleiman, MD. PhD, and co-PIs Andrew Malone, MB, BCh, and Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, division Chief, who were selected to receive McDonnell Genome Institute (MGI) Pilot Project awards. These awards are made possible by funds from the Dean of the School of Medicine-WUSM, the Institute of Clinical and […]

Risk of Kidney Transplant Rejection Increases with Reactivation of Polyomavirus

A new study by WU researchers is one of the largest to simultaneously evaluate 10-year outcomes in three important areas of kidney transplantation: calcineurin inhibitor-based immunosuppression, polyomavirus reactivation, and immune responses to kidney-specific self-antigens fibronectin (FN) and collagen type-IV (Col-IV). The study, headed by Daniel C. Brennan, MD, FACP, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff […]