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Predoctoral Trainees
Andres Armenta
Project Title: Building Next Generation In Vitro Models of the Renal Nephron at Anatomical Scale
Alejandra Lopez
Project Title: Iron deficiency impairs host resistance to intestinal helminth infection
Nikhita Poole
Project Title: The roles of granulocytes in HLH and HLH-like toxicities following immunotherapy
Pedro Vasquez
Project Title: Multiplexed Volumetric Imaging of Intact Thick Kidney Tissue
Postdoctoral Trainees
Mahlet Assefa, MD
Project Title: Heart failure burden and risk factors among patients chronic kidney disease
Heidi Creed, PhD
Project Title: CD19 CAR-T cell mechanisms underlying the resolution of kidney inflammation in lupus nephritis
Sarah Haeger, MD, PhD
Project Title: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Kidney Dysfunction in Heart Failure
Braden Hanson, PhD
Project Title: A Patient-Centered Approach to Developing Novel Therapies for UTI
Elizabeth Kiernan, MD
Project Title: Mechanisms of Fibrosis: Proteomic Analyses of Acute Kidney Injury Progression and Recovery and Effect of GLP-1 in Diabetic Kidney Disease
Jennifer Waters, PhD
Project Title: Surveying and dissecting tRNA function in bladder epithelial development and wound repair
Stacy Yanofsky, MD
Project Title: Mapping the Future: Exploring Narrative Identity and Developmental Transitions in Youth Kidney Transplant Recipients
Program Alumni
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