Yale Nephrology

Has been all outstanding research faculty talks since the #Match last week!
Dr. @fperrywilson.bsky.social giving Yale Nephrology RIP, Dr. Whitney Besse teaching us about genetic testing and kidney disease, and Dr. Lloyd Cantley presenting at the HTI Seminar! @yalemed.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Sectional Pitch Master Dr. Whitney Besse for winning 1st place at the 2025 Yale Life Science PitchFest live pitch session for her project PKD1 UORF-Blocking ASOs as Therapy for ADPKD!!
So impressed, so proud!! @yaleventures.bsky.social

Match Day is here! We're so excited to welcome an incredible group of future fellows to Yale Nephrology. We can't wait to have you join us in New Haven! 🎉
#FellowshipMatch2025 #Nephrology

2nd year fellows Drs. Becky Kurian and Kareen Moore teamed up to start off this year’s fellow physiology chalk talk series this afternoon, tackling everyone’s favorite topic:
Na+ Handling! 🧂🍕

Pre-print out in bioRxiv from the Cantley Lab! @meganbaker.bsky.social

First year fellow Dr. Fernando Onuchic making us feel like we are back at ASN #KidneyWk with his Renal Rounds this morning: “Infection-related glomerulonephritis in adults: an insight into pathophysiology and treatment”!

Yale-led #KidneyWk talks continuing though this afternoon, with superstar research fellow Dr. Anna Qian presenting her work on LIF in AIN, and our Section Chief Dr. Shuta Ishibe presenting on mitotic catastrophe in glomerular diseases!

Strong Yale representation in the @asnkidney.bsky.social #KidneyWk poster sessions continues this morning, with Jessica Li, Dr. Emily Moss, and Dr. Anna Qian all proudly presenting their work! 👏

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Yale Nephrology does Texas! 🤠🚀 #KidneyWk @asnkidney.bsky.social

Love to see our incredible program director @ubrewster.bsky.social leading a presentation on the Challenges of Nephrology Training and Fellowship at @asnkidney.bsky.social #KidneyWk !

A few more posters today:
- Anna Long Qian presented her 1st poster of #KidneyWk today — catch her tomorrow with her 2nd poster, before she presents at Top Trainee Posters 3 at 1pm!
- @meganbaker.bsky.social wrapping up presenting her work this week with a poster after her talk yesterday!

Another busy day at @asnkidney.bsky.social #KidneyWk, notably with Dr. Laura Aponte Becerra presenting her work on Individual Treatment Effect Modeling for AKI Alerts: A Randomized Trial as a High Impact Clinical Trial on the big stage this morning! 👏

Kidney Week is for the time to catch up with colleagues! Our dinner out together followed by the Yale reunion gathering is always a highlight of @asnkidney.bsky.social #KidneyWk !

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Day 1 of #KidneyWk off to a great start, with so many places for us all to be, between presentations (Becky Kurian, Kareen Moore, & Bismark Owusu Frimpong), media interviews (Laura Aponte Becerra), and talks (@meganbaker.bsky.social)! @asnkidney.bsky.social @ubrewster.bsky.social
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First year fellow Dr. Erica Marnet giving renal rounds this morning on IgA nephropathy! Bring us all up to date to be ready for @asnkidney.bsky.social #KidneyWk!

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First year fellow Dr. Mohammed Ali giving his first Yale Nephrology Renal Rounds this morning on thrombotic microangiopathies!

Editorial just published on Inflammation and Cyst Expansion in Polycystic Kidney Disease in JASN (@asnpublications.bsky.social) out of the Cantley lab — Drs. Vijay Kakade and Lloyd Cantley!!

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. #ASNJASN Top Reviewer of 2025 Ladan Golestaneh shares: "Peer review represents the mutual trust and commitment shared among members of the academic community, each dedicated to supporting and advancing one another’s work."

Check out this article by Dr. Justin Belcher & many collleagues from Yale GI showing kidney tubular secretion can distinguish ATI from other AKI causes in cirrhosis patients - a game-changer for treatment decisions! @asnpublications.bsky.social #CJASN🔬

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Discovery: some fellows have never cut an onion while others have serious knife skills 😂 Each group cooked along the sodium/protein/phosphorus spectrum, then analyzed nutrition labels. Clever way to teach CKD diets! Thanks Chef Danielle, Chef Nate, & Dr. Sarav! #NephFellowship @ubrewster.bsky.social

Dr. Menaka Sarav taught us CKD nutrition - then we cooked it! 🌮 At the YNHH Teaching Kitchen with Chef Danielle & @drchefnate.bsky.social, fellows made 5 taco recipes from meat/seasoning packet to veggie with mushrooms/beans. Compared nutrition & taste. Healthier won both! Only one bandaid needed 🩹

Farewell lunch celebrating “Pharmacy Jim” Sarigianis today, who has been supporting & teaching Yale Nephrologists & serving patients with a big smile and infectious enthusiasm for over 25 years! “Irreplaceable” echoed over and over today. Will be so missed in his retirement!

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Excited to have second year fellow Dr. Emily Moss kicking off our first interview day of this season with a comprehensive Renal Rounds on everything amyloidosis! Super helpful review and discussion for us all.

We can’t wait to meet the applicants today!

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📸 Set of excellent Friday conferences today, with Dr. Somlo giving us an update on his exciting research on pathway discovery in PKD, and master renal physiologist Dr. Krishnan giving her extremely high yield annual clinical potassium disorders talk!

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📸 2nd year fellow Dr. Shivankshi Berry gave an excellent Renal Rounds this AM on Renovascular HTN to a room of experts 1 week after the 2025 ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation & Management of HTN was published in @ahajournals.bsky.social!

Celebrating our outstanding first year renal fellows today - especially Dr. Erica Marnet on her birthday! 🎂 They all deserve to be celebrated daily, but today calls for breakfast cake!
👏 Thanks to Dr. Paola Gudino for making it happen!

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📸 Dr. Rebecca Kurian presenting her first Renal Rounds as a 2nd year fellow this morning — covering the Gut-Kidney axis! 🫘🦠

📸 Dr. William Chang presented a very exciting Yale Internal Medicine Medical Grand Rounds this morning on his cutting edge research and perspectives on the future of tissue engineering in nephrology!

Summer in New Haven means it’s Renal Physiology Friday Conference Series time with Dr. Aronson!! 🫘🎉

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