Name: Ankit B. Patel, MD, PhD
Institution: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Grant: 2020 Joseph A. Carlucci Research Fellow
Project Title: Derivation of Collecting Duct Principal Cells from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Direct Programming via Transcription Factor Expression
Name: Ankit B. Patel, MD, PhD
Institution: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Grant: 2020 Joseph A. Carlucci Research Fellow
Project Title: Derivation of Collecting Duct Principal Cells from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Direct Programming via Transcription Factor Expression
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