The following articles are brief Q&A sessions with KidneyCure (ASN Foundation) grant recipients. The sessions explore what research the individual is undertaking with the grant funds, their hopes for the research, career goals, and advice for others interested in applying for these grant funds.

ASN Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award

• Benjamin Bowe, MPH  - Identification of Inpatient Acute Kidney Injury Phenotypes Using Large Scale Electronic Health Records
• Yijiang Chen - Computational Pathology Approach for Characterizing Kidney Biopsies and Predicting APOL1 Risk Variants
• Pei-Ju Liu, MS - The Role of Myo1e- and Clathrin-Dependent Endocytic Trafficking in Podocyte Health and Disease
• Franco Puleo - Sympathetic Nervous System Regulation of the NCC in Salt Sensitive Hypertension
• Annie Ryan - Elucidating Vascular Signals in Nephron Formation Using Human Organoids
   

Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program

• Lakshmi Ganesan, MD, MAS - Pediatric Peritoneal Dialysis
• Michael W. Holliday, Jr, MD, PhD - From Bedside to Bench: Gramoxone and Mesoamerican Nephropathy
• Kana Miyata, MD - Novel Role of Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein F (hnRNP F) in Regulation of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 (Sglt2) Expression in Diabetes
• Nabin Poudel, PhD - Pannexin 1 and Acute Kidney Injury
• Aneta Przepiorski, PhD - Modeling Kidney Fibrosis and Testing Therapeutic Compounds in Human Kidney Organoids
• Katherine Mikovna Scovner, MD - Acid-Base Status of Hospitalized Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis as a Predictor of Hospital Outcomes
• Xiao-Tong Su, PhD - Dietary Potassium Causes Chloride-Induced Distal Tubule Remodeling
• Ken Sutha, MD, PhD - Patient-Derived Kidney Organoids
• Seyedmohammad Ebrahim Tahaei, PhD - Illuminating the mechanisms that control Salt balance in the face of NCC inhibition
• Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, MD, MBA - Screening Strategies for Chronic Kidney Disease in US Populations
   

Career Development Grants

Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant

• Subhashini Bolisetty, PhD  - Targeting Ferritin in Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury
• Louise Evans, PhD - Pathological Role of T-cells in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension
• Naoka Murakami, MD, PhD - Roles of Immune Checkpoint Signaling in Autoimmune Kidney Diseases
• Sagar U. Nigwekar, MD, MMSc - Novel Determinants of Calcific Uremic Arteriolopathy
• Tengis S. Pavlov, PhD - Mechanism and Role of ATP Release in Polycystic Kidney Diseases
• Tomokazu Souma, MD, PhD - Harnessing Antioxidative Stress Pathways in Renal Epithelial Progenitors To Prevent AKI-to-CKD Transition

Norman Siegel Research Scholar Grant

• Brian Becknell, MD, PhD  - Therapeutic Urothelial Remodeling: A Novel Strategy to Limit Obstructive Kidney Injury

John Merrill Grant in Transplantation

• Sarah Panzer, MD - Impact of B Cell Survival Cytokines on Transplant Glomerulopathy

OHF-ASN Foundation for Kidney Research Grant

• Dylan Dodd, MD, PhD - Gut Microbiota Modulation of Oxalate

American Society of Nephrology - Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Award

• Rasheeda Hall, MD, MBA, MHS - Establishing Evidence to Manage Geriatric Syndromes in Hemodialysis Patients