Physician-Scientist Ying Maggie Chen Receives VA Merit Award

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Medicine, Ying Maggie Chen, MD, PhD, WashU Nephrology, who received a four-year, $1.15M VA Merit Award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.  The funding will support her research on therapeutic targeting of mitochondria in uromodulin-associated chronic kidney disease (CKD).  The $1.15M grant award includes the $750,000 grant (direct costs) […]

Postdoc Scholars Chenjian Gu, Megan Noonan and Poornima D. E. Weerasinghe-Mudiyanselage Awarded ASN KidneyCure Ben J. Lipps Grants

Congratulations to three WashU Nephrology postdoctoral scholars for being awarded the highly competitive American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Cure Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program grants. The Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program grants are designed to support postdoctoral fellows in conducting original, high-quality research that will help establish the beginnings of an independent […]