May 2024: Andrew Chow was accepted to the MD program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
May 2024: Nina Cintron Pregosin receives the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award.
May 2024: Review article published “Developing KLF15 Agonists for Kidney Disease” (Andrew Chow and Yiqing Guo).
April 2024: Stacey Jiang receives 2nd consecutive URECA award.
March 2024: Nephrology division celebrated World Kidney Day.
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January 2024: Review article published: “Central role of podocytes in mediating cellular cross talk in glomerular health and disease” (Nehaben Gujarati and Andrew Chow)
June 2023: Nina Pregosin received the NIDDK Diversity Supplement.
May 2023: The SBU Kidney Crew raised money for kidney research at the Long Island Kidney Walk.
May 2023: Review article publication: Podocyte-Parietal Epithelial Cell Interdependence in Glomerular Development and Disease ()
May 2023: Presentations at the International Podocyte Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
- "Epigenomic Dynamics of Parietal Epithelial Cells in Proliferative Glomerulopathy" (Rob Bronstein)
- "Investigating Podocyte-Parietal Epithelial Cell Communication through Intercellular Bridges" (Nina Pregosin)
- Nina Pregosin's abstract was selected for a short talk at the Early Career Researchers Meeting and she received the an award for best poster from the American Physiological Society
May 2023: Stacey Jiang and Malaika Zaidi received URECA and SUNY SOAR summer research awards.
May 2023: Students from the SBU Kidney Crew participated in the Roth Regatta
March 2023: Nina Pregosin was selected to give a short talk at the17th Annual Women in Medicine Research Day at Stony Brook University
- Nina Pregosin received the award for best abstract in the Graduate Student category
January 2023: Dr. Sandeep Mallipattu was inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigation.
November 2022: Presentations at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2022 in Orlando, FL.
Oral Presentations
- "Cell-Specific Role of STAT3 Signaling in Podocytes vs. Parietal Epithelial Cells in Proliferative Glomerulopathy" (Yogesh Gowthaman)
- "Podocyte-specific loss of Klf4 induces the formation of extracellular matrix extensions" (Nina Pregosin)
Poster presentations
- "Podocyte-Mediated Proximal Tubule Preconditioning Is Protective in Diabetic Kidney Disease" (Neha and Bismark Frimpong)
- "Formulating customizable extracellular matrix scaffolds from decellularized mouse kidneys" (Nina Pregosin)
Neha Gujarati, Bismark Frimpong, and Nina Pregosin received Kidney STARS awards.
September 2022: Robert Bronstein received a postdoctoral training grant from the New York Consortium for Interdisciplinary Training in Kidney, Urological & Hematological Research (NYC KUHR).
August 2022: Nina Pregosin was awarded the Scholars in Biomedical Sciences training grant.
May 2022: Bismark Frimpong was accepted to the MD/PhD program at Yale School of Medicine.
April 2022: Andrew Chow received the URECA award for summer research.
December 2021: New Publication in Kidney International: Loss of proximal tubular transcription factor Kruppel-like factor 15 exacerbates kidney injury through loss of fatty acid oxidation. ()
October 2021: Chelsea Estrada was awarded the Veterans Affair Career Development Grant.
October 2021: New Publication in Diabetes: Loss of Functional SCO2 Attenuates Oxidative Stress in Diabetic Kidney Disease. ()
October 2021: Abstract selected for oral presentation at American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week : Sian E. Piret, Ahmed A. Attallah, Yiqing Guo, Nehaben A. Gujarati, Sandeep K. Mallipattu. Loss of proximal tubular Kruppel-like factor 15 in kidney injury is detrimental through suppression of fatty acid oxidation. SA-OR16
May 2021: New Publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: Krüppel-Like factor 6 mediated loss of BCAA catabolism contributes to kidney injury in mice and humans ()
June 2020: Sian Piret, PhD, received the 2020 Joseph V. Bonventre Research Scholar Grant from Kidney Cure.
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November 2019: Talks and presentations at American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2019 in Washington DC -
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e. "Glomerular and Tubular Origins of Albuminuria." (Sandeep K. Mallipattu)
July 2019: Sandeep Mallipattu, MD, received prestigious PECASE award in July from the US government; given to outstanding scientists and engineers that show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.
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July 2019: Sian Piret, PhD, received an award from the . The title is “Role of proximal tubular Kruppel-like factor 6 (KLF6) in acute injury responses to DNA damage”.
June 2019: Chelsea Estrada, MD, received Basic Science Research Award in July from ɫƵ for her outstanding efforts in Nephrology research.
April 2019: Sandeep K. Mallipattu, MD, was named 2019 Discovery Prize Finalist.
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