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 […]
Tag: Kidney
Slatopolsky and Miner to be Honored at ASN’s 50th Anniversary
The American Society of Nephrology will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year at ASN Kidney Week, November 14-20, 2016, in Chicago, IL. As part of the celebration, the society will recognize all award recipients from the last half-century. Among those to be honored are two members of our division, Jeffrey Miner, PhD, FASN, Professor of […]
MesoAmerican Nephropathy Project: Partnership of WU and Guatemalan Nephrologists
A group from Washington University involved in a collaborative effort to combat an epidemic of chronic kidney disease in Latin America recently returned from scientific conferences in Guatemala City, Guatemala. MesoAmerican Nephropathy (MeN) is an unexplained epidemic of CKD prevalent on the Pacific coast of Latin American, particularly Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Costa Rica. […]
Do Checkpoint Inhibitors Increase Rejection Risk?
Division of Nephrology faculty member Tarek Alhamed, MD has published an article questioning whether checkpoint inhibitors might be associated with an increased rejection. With senior author Dan Brennan, MD and coauthors Karthik Venkatachalam, MD, renal fellow and Gerald Linette, MD, of the Division of Oncology, the team described a renal transplant patient who developed metastatic […]
Let’s Get a Conversation Started
ASN has created a dedicated site, or Community, for PhDs and MD/PhDs who work in a primarily clinical society to engage with other researchers and scientists from around the world. Jeffrey Miner, PhD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology, is one of the Ambassadors of the new Basic Science Research Community. The Community provides […]
3D Printed Kidney Models Change the Way Surgeons Prepare for Surgery
Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, of a kidney model was recently used to help save a patient’s real kidney during a complicated surgery to remove a tumor. Jay Bishoff, MD, director of Intermountain Medical Center Urological Institute, radiologist Talmage Shill, MD, and collaborators from the Intermountain Healthcare’s Transformation Laboratory in Murray, Utah, converted raw images […]
Good Vibes
What do you call an elevator full of Nephrologists? A lot of fun! The high level of energy, enthusiasm and cameraderie of the teams that staff the general nephrology consults was captured in a selfie this week. According to Dr. Steven Cheng (the very enthusiastic physician in the back of the photo) all 3 consult […]
Dan Brennan, MD Honored at AST in Boston
Brennan Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award Dan Brennan, MD was presented the American Society of Transplantation’s Senior Achievement Award in Clinical Transplantation at the AST Annual Meeting in Boston. This prestigious award honors a senior investigator whose lifelong work has advanced the field of transplantation. Remarkably, Dr. Brennan is a previous recipient of the AST […]