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Second Chan Zuckerberg Grant Awarded to Dr. Benjamin Humphreys

Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, the Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine and Division of Nephrology chief, is part of a team of investigators that has received a three-year Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) grant to define the transcriptome and epigenome of the normal human kidney.  Data obtained from both developing and adult kidney (male […]

WU Nephrology Integral Part in CZI Push to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

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 […]