St. Louis was #2 in the nation for fastest growing rate of new startups in a metropolitan area. St. Louis had 4,876 new start-ups in 2014. In a survey of entrepreneurs, the Census Bureau found that 30% of new businesses in Missouri are in health care. Additionally, women own a larger number of startups in […]
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AKI – Expanding the ASN Community
ASN has added another dedicated site – the AKI Community – to its line of discussion groups, and nephrologist Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN, Professor of Medicine in our division, will be one of the initial co-moderators guiding the conversation. “The AKI community subgroup was created specifically to provoke thoughtful discussion among community members who have […]
Welcome Celia Dehn
We are pleased to introduce another new member of our division, Celia Dehn, the Senior Department Accounting Assistant who will be handling the purchasing/accounting functions for the division. Prior to coming to the Division of Nephrology, Celia worked in the Department of Pathology & Immunology for 28 years. Working at WashU is a family affair; […]
WU Nephrology Web Series Tops 10K YouTube Views
Our division is proud to give a hearty round of applause to faculty member Timothy Yau MD, the creator and moderator of the Washington University in St. Louis Nephrology Web Video Series. The series has accumulated 10,000 views in just under 9 months since its debut on YouTube! A “personal interest” in online video gaming […]
Herrlich Speaker at Protease World in Health and Disease Symposium
Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology will be a featured speaker at the 2nd International Symposium Protease World in Health and Disease, Sept. 14-17, 2016, in Kiel, Germany. The symposium, entitled Proteolysis as a Regulatory Event in Pathophysiology is organized by the Collaborative Research Center 877, which focuses on […]
Call for 2016 Translational Innovation Grant Proposals
The Renal Division is now accepting applications for its 2016 Translational Innovation Grant. The purpose of this funding program is to provide resources for collaborative research projects between basic and clinical investigators within the Division of Nephrology. Last year’s winners are profiled here. Successful proposals will feature a well-crafted plan for a research project that represents […]
3D Printed Kidney Models Change the Way Surgeons Prepare for Surgery
Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, of a kidney model was recently used to help save a patient’s real kidney during a complicated surgery to remove a tumor. Jay Bishoff, MD, director of Intermountain Medical Center Urological Institute, radiologist Talmage Shill, MD, and collaborators from the Intermountain Healthcare’s Transformation Laboratory in Murray, Utah, converted raw images […]
Good Vibes
What do you call an elevator full of Nephrologists? A lot of fun! The high level of energy, enthusiasm and cameraderie of the teams that staff the general nephrology consults was captured in a selfie this week. According to Dr. Steven Cheng (the very enthusiastic physician in the back of the photo) all 3 consult […]