Risk of Kidney Transplant Rejection Increases with Reactivation of Polyomavirus

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 […]

Humphreys, Coyne and Yau in the Running for 2016 NephJC Kidney Awards

The Renal Fellow Network (RFN), a website written for renal fellows by renal fellows will announce the NephJC Kidney Awards, Friday, November 18, at the “Tweet-up” at Benny’s Chop House in Chicago, IL. Past honors have been awarded for the best social media participation during ASN Kidney Week, but this year several new categories are […]

Angiopoietin-1 Mitigates Renal Fibrosis

Angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1), a vascular growth factor secreted by kidney proximal tubular cells, pericytes and podocytes, is essential for regulating blood vessel development and repair after injury.  Ang-1 is also a promising therapeutic agent to target renal fibrosis, according to a study by WU researchers recently published in PLoSOne, As a result of injury to the […]

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.  […]

Critical Care Fellowships Awarded to Nephrologists Younus and Edrees

The Division of Nephrology is proud to announce that second year fellows Fahad Edrees, MD, and Usman Younus, MD, have both been accepted to the Critical Care Fellowship here at Washington University next year.  Critical Care Medicine is a rapidly growing subspecialty.  Physicians with training in critical care are referred to as “intensivists” and are […]

ASN Kidney Week – WU Nephrology Lectures, Moderators, Posters and Podcast

Program Director’s Meeting – Hot Topics from the Training Program Exchange > Wednesday, November 16 > Moderator > Hot Topics from the Training Program Exchange > 5:35 p.m. > BR C/D     Critical Care Nephrology: Using Prolonged Intermittent RRT in the ICU: How Do I Prescribe It, and When Do I Use It? Wednesday, November 16 […]

Steven Cheng to Participate in ASN 2016 Podcast

Steven Cheng, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, will take part in a podcast that will be broadcasted during the upcoming ASN Kidney Week 2016 in Chicago, IL, Nov 15-20, 2016. Kidney Week Program Committee Chair Roy Zent, MD, PhD will host the podcast.  Dr. Cheng will be recorded along with two or three other […]

Herrlich Awarded $1.125M Grant from NIDDK to Study ADAM17

Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, has received a five-year $1.125 million grant from NIDDK to fund a research project titled The Role of Adam17 Substrates in Progressive Kidney Disease. Preliminary studies show that proximal tubular ADAM17-cleaved substrates promote progressive kidney disease.  The goal of Dr. Herrlich’s study is to […]