Tag: NIH

Feng Chen, PhD, Receives $2.36M GUDMAP Grant to Characterize Developing Urogenital Organs

Feng Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, has been awarded a five-year, $2.36M GUDMAP grant titled “Creating High-resolution Multi-omics Molecular Atlases for Developing Urogenital Organs.” The GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project – GUDMAP – provides data and tools that facilitate research on the genitourinary tract for the scientific and medical community.  “Our goal is […]

Broad Clinical Applications for CRELD2 as an ER Stress Biomarker

Thanks to a new study headed by Ying Maggie Chen, MD, PhD, it may soon be possible to diagnose certain human kidney diseases in their earliest stages of development using a noninvasive biomarker of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. The study, Elevated Urinary CRELD2 is Associated with Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-mediated Kidney Disease, was published online in […]

Dr. Feng Chen and Colleague Awarded $2.2M NIH R01 Grant

Feng Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Cell Biology and Physiology, along with his collaborator Li Ding, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Oncology Division), have been awarded a four-year, $2.2 million R01 grant from the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to fund a research project titled Pathogenic […]

Joseph Miller – The Road from RN to MD

The Division of Nephrology bids a fond farewell to Joseph B. Miller, who will be entering the University of California Riverside School of Medicine (UCR SOM), class of 2021. Joseph, an RN, has worked as a research technician in the laboratory of Professor of Medicine Jeffrey Miner, PhD, FASN, for the past year and a […]