Dr. Alfred Cheung, Chief of the Division of Nephrology at the U of U Health and co-chair of the new KDIGO guidelines, discusses this major update to blood pressure guidelines...
Congratulations to Dr. Kohan who has been awarded the Berliner Award given by the American Physiological Society (APS) and to Dr. Ramkumar who has been awarded the Renal Section New...
Alport Syndrome is the second most common cause of inherited kidney disease and can cause significant damage and kidney failure by the age of 40. It affects both males and...
The Division of Nephrology & Hypertension is delighted to announce three new awards for three members of our faculty: Drs. Brandi Wynne, PhD, Assistant Professor; Marcus Pezzolesi, PhD, Associate Professor...
Congratulations to Dr. Tianxin Yang, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, for his new grant from the VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System for his project, "Defining Renal S1P/sPRR/AT1R pathway in...
Donald Kohan, MD, PhD, a professor in the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, will be receiving the 2020 Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease (KCVD) Distinguished Achievement Award by the American Heart...
The Department of Internal Medicine congratulates Dr. Nirupama Ramkumar, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology at the U of U health and Dr. Brandi Wynne, PhD, FAHA...
Dr. Aylin Rodan, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, has accepted the position of Associate Director of the University of Utah Molecular Medicine Program, effective July...
Congratulations to Dr. Yufeng Huang (Research Associate Professor, Nephrology)! Her R01 "Novel therapeutic strategy for renal fibrosis by targeting RNA-binding protein HuR" was funded for 5 years at $1,781,000 by...
Drs. Aylin Rodan and Brandi Wynne (Assistant Professors, Nephrology & Hypertension) have received awards given by the American Physiological Society (APS) to young investigators for outstanding research.
The University of Utah Kidney Stone Clinic began in 2015 as a way to deliver comprehensive care to our kidney stone patients. Since its founding, the clinic has continued to...
Aylin Rodan, an assistant professor in the Division of Nephrology, presented "What Flies Can Teach Us About Our Kidneys" at a recent Telluride Science Town Talk in Telluride, Colorado.
Under the direction of Marcus Pezzolesi, an assistant professor in the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, scientists are mapping the DNA of dozens of families at high risk of rapid...
Research conducted by Man Li, PhD, an assistant professor in the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, was featured in the latest edition of Nature Genetics for "A catalog of genetic...
Congratulations to Dr. Nirupama Ramkumar for receiving the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Junior Faculty Development Award for “Role of collecting duct prorenin and prorenin receptor in diabetic kidney disease."
Congratulations to Dr. Laith Al-Rabadi. His project, "Utah Kindred P Revisted" was awarded the Young Investigator Grant from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF).
Congratulations to our Chief Fellow, Meghana Chalasani, MD for Outstanding Poster Award at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Meeting held in Boston, MA.
Since 1965, the kidney transplant program has performed over 3,000 kidney transplants and is one of the premier kidney transplant programs in the nation. The success of the program is...
Two landmark clinical trials in diabetic kidney disease were recently published and represent the first breakthroughs in more than 20 years in strategies to slow chronic kidney disease progression in...
