Tag: kidney regeneration

National Kidney Foundation Award of Excellence Presented to Benjamin Humphreys

Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, the Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Disease and Chief of the Division of Nephrology at WashU Medicine, was honored with the 2024 National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Award of Excellence.   An internationally acclaimed physician-scientist, Humphreys’ research focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of kidney regeneration, with the goal of identifying […]

Jeannine Basta, PhD, Norman Siegel Research Scholar of KidneyCure

Jeannine Basta, PhD, Assistant Professor of Research in the Division of Nephrology, has been awarded a Norman Siegel Research Scholar Grant by the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and KidneyCure.  The two-year, $200,000 grant will fund her project: Investigation of Nephron Maturation and Cessation in a Mouse Model that Disrupts Sall1/NuRD Interaction.  “The kidney field […]