The thought of passing a kidney stone is unnerving. The sharp, stabbing, “writhing-on-the-floor” pain generally starts in the flank, radiates to the front of the body and then travels to the groin. Often described as the worst pain of one’s life, women claim it is worse than childbirth. The pain, called renal colic, can last […]
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Goldberg and Mahjoub Awarded Nephrology Translational Innovation Grant
Assistant Professors of Medicine Moe Mahjoub, PhD and Seth Goldberg, MD, are recipients of the 2016 Translational Innovation Grant, awarded by Division of Nephrology in the sum of $50,000. The winning proposal, entitled Midbody Accumulation and Secretion in Polycystic Kidney Disease, aims to define how defects in components of the cell cytoskeleton contribute to the […]