The following articles are brief Q&A sessions with American Society of Nephrology (ASN) 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

• Sunjae Bae - Tailored Immunosuppression for Kidney Transplant Recipients
• Fatimah Khalaf - Paraoxonase-1 regulation of renal inflammation in Chronic Kidney Disease
• Rhiannon Reed - Evaluating the Implementation and Effectiveness of the Living Donor Navigator Program
• Katherine Shipman - Megalin trafficking in Dent disease
   

Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program

Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Award

• Mark Hepokoski, MD - Mitochondrial Dysfunction in ARDS due to AKI
• Jiahua Li, MD, PhD - Targeting Proximal Tubule Metabolism in AKI to CKD Transition in Diabetic Nephropathy
• Kabir O. Olaniran, MD - Risk Factors and Risk Modification for Chronic Kidney Disease in Black Sickle Cell Trait Patients
• Jin Wei, PhD - Relaxin Receptor, Tubuloglomerular Feedback and Preeclampsia
• Jie Zhang, PhD - Renal Mechanisms for Hypertension in Diabetes
   

Sharon Anderson Research Fellowship Award

• Rebecca Hjorten, MD - Modeling APOL1 Disease in Drosophila Melanogaster
   

Donald E. Wesson Research Fellowship Award

• Yuenting Diana Kwong, MD - Identification of Sub-phenotypes in Sepsis Associated Acute Kidney Injury
   

ASN Foundation of Kidney Research Fellowship Award

• Kaice LaFavers, PhD - The Role of Uromodulin in Oxidant Stress during Sepsis-Induced Kidney Injury
   

Jared J. Grantham Research Fellowship

• Amar J. Majmundar, MD, PhD - Whole Exome Sequencing to Identify Novel Monogenic Causes of Nephrolithiasis
   

Joseph A. Carlucci Research Fellowship Award

• Ke Wang, MD - Proximal Tubule Secretion: A Complementary Marker to GFR in Kidney Disease
  
   

Career Development Grants

Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant

• Alexander Grabner, MD - The Role of FGF23 and FGFR4 in Cardio-Renal Syndrome
• Hana A. Itani, PhD - New Immune Mechanisms in Hypertension
• David Leaf, MD - Hepcidin, Dysregulated Iron Homeostasis, and Anemia in Human Acute Kidney Injury
• Ali Poyan Mehr, MD - Metabolic and Molecular Predictors of Acute Kidney Injury in Humans and Their Clinical Response to NAD+ Augmentation
• Roderick Tan, MD, PhD - Tubular-to-Glomerular Crosstalk in Kidney Disease
• Brandi M. Wynne, MS PhD - Renal Dendritic Cell-Derived Interleukin 6 Increases Sodium Reabsorption and Blood Pressure
   

Joseph V. Bonventre Career Development Grant

• Nishank Jain, MBBS - A Mechanistic Study in Patients with Non-Dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease to Investigate Altered Platelet Response to Antiplatelet Therapy (CKD-Platelet Study)
   

Norman Siegel Research Scholar Grant

• Meghan Pearl, MD - Understanding the Interface of Allo and Auto-Immunity: the Impact of Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Antibodies in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
   

John Merrill Grant in Transplantation

• Nicholas Zwang, MD - Quantifying signaling and activation mechanisms in human transitional B cells