Nephrology Newsletter

In a new study, Yale researchers set out to discover if personalized recommendations given by a kidney action team could improve the outcomes of hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury.

Meet Yale clinical fellow Rebecca Kurian, MD, who chose a career in medicine to combine her love of science with the art of compassion.

Meet Yale clinical fellow Emily Moss, MD, who pursued a career in medicine to work with veterans.

Meet Lonnette Diggs, research associate in the Yale Section of Nephrology, who first came to Yale for a summer research internship during high school.

The core profiles the kidney’s role in homeostasis, i.e., how the body maintains a stable internal environment in response to external changes. Profiling is done using either the whole animal (mice) or blood or urine samples obtained from control and experimental models of disease that are created by Yale and non-Yale investigators. The outcome is a phenotypic description of kidney function in the model.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a huge uptick in research across disciplines. In the first six months after the pandemic hit, 35,000 publications were indexed in PubMed; by the end of the year that number reached 90,000.

An unsuspected gene, Glis2, has been found to be a target of polycystic kidney disease (PKD) signaling in preclinical models.

John N. Forrest Jr., MD, professor emeritus of medicine (nephrology), died on March 19. He was 85.