John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
World Kidney Day (WKD) and the International Women’s Day 2018 fall on the same day this year, March 8, giving us the opportunity to reflect on the importance of women’s health – specifically their kidney health. WKD is an annual, global campaign to stress the importance of kidney health, to reduce the impact of disease, […]
The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), founded by Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, has an ambitious goal: to help scientists cure, manage, or prevent all disease by the end of the century. As part of that goal, in 2017, CZI funded 38 pilot projects to contribute to the Human Cell […]
WU Division of Nephrology nurses Cheryl Cress and Lisa Koester and nephrologist Dr. Brent Miller will participate in the world’s largest multidisciplinary conference on dialysis, held this year in Orlando, Florida, March 3-6, 2018. The Annual Dialysis Conference (ADC), now in its 38th year, convenes an international group of nephrologists, fellows, nurses, dietitians, social workers […]
Congratulations to Mary Hoffman, RN and Washington University Inpatient Renal Coordinator, who is a finalist in the 9th annual St. Louis Magazine Excellence in Nursing Awards. The awards program honors the selfless care, compassion and service of nurses in local schools, hospitals, nurseries, colleges and clinics. A selection committee reviewed more than 220 nominations and […]
Jane Stromberg, MSW, and Tingting Li, MD, are co-captains of Wash Ur Kidneys, the Washington University Nephrology team participating in the annual St. Louis Kidney Walk, to be held 12:30 – 4 pm, March 4, 2018, at the Chaifetz Arena. The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) sponsors the fundraiser, which is nation’s largest walking event to […]
Alport syndrome is an inherited disease characterized by progressive loss of kidney function, hearing loss, and eye abnormalities. The syndrome is caused by genetic mutations that affect expression and/or function of the type IV collagen family protein isoforms COL4A3, COL4A4, and COL4A5, which help form the glomerular basement membranes. The onset, symptoms, progression, and severity […]
Save the date for the 3rd annual KIDNEYcon held in Little Rock, Arkansas, April 6-7, 2018. Using a hands-on format, the scientific conference provides updates in the latest advances in kidney care featuring scientific and clinical lectures as well as half-day workshops targeted to medicine residents, nephrology fellows and early-stage nephrologists. “This promises to be […]
Planning is well underway for Kidney Week 2018, the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) to be held October 23-28 in San Diego, CA. Dr. Benjamin D. Humphreys, Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Washington University, is Chair of the Program Committee, which develops the basic/clinical science session content and oversees […]
A group of scientists led by Associate Professor of Medicine Andreas Herrlich, Division of Nephrology, has used a functional genomics approach to identify key signaling pathways as novel regulators of transforming growth factor-alpha (TGFα) shedding in cancer cells. The article is published in the January 2018 issue of Molecular Cancer Research. (MCR) Ectodomain shedding (or, […]
Assistant Professor of Medicine Timothy Yau wants to tell you a good story. Yau is branching out from the usual clinical and pathology discussions found in his award-winning Washington University Nephrology Web Video Series in order to emphasize some of the incredible things that have happened in the field of nephrology over the course of […]