The Washington University Pediatric Center of Excellence in Nephrology (WU PCEN) is pleased to request applications for our 2025 Summer Research Scholars Program.
2025 PCEN Summer Research Scholars Program
Author: Brian Huxtable
2025 PCEN Network Scientific Symposium
Promoting Research in Childhood Kidney Disease When: March 6, 2025 | 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. ESTWhere: Zoom + NIH/NIDDK, 6701 Rockledge Dr., Bethesda, MD The Pediatric Centers of Excellence in Nephrology (PCEN) invite you to their annual Scientific Symposium. This meeting will be an opportunity for you to hear about resources you can access […]
WU-PCEN supported work presented at ASN 2024
PCEN Pilot & Feasibility Awardee Vidhi Dalal, MD will be presenting a poster on her PCEN award work on Friday, October 25, 2024, at the poster session titled “Glomerular Diseases: Mechanisms and Podocyte Biology [PO1401-2]” from 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. Dalal’s Poster Board is #FR-PO729, “Molecular regulation of podocyte development by transcription factor 21.” […]
Summer Scholar Katka Trachtova at KPMP
PCEN 2023 Summer Scholar Katka Trachtova recently attended the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, on a travel grant awarded by the KPMP. She presented her work in a poster session with early career investigators. The poster was titled ‘Generating a Pediatric Single-cell and Spatial Kidney Atlas’ where she shared her progress […]
Core Services Available (Links to an external site)
You can now request services related to single cell and spatial transcriptomics assays from our cores.
New Just-In-Time funding opportunities
Please check out these just-in-time funding opportunities available through the PCEN.
2024 PCEN Network Scientific Symposium
Promoting Research in Childhood Kidney Disease February 9, 2024 | 12 – 5 p.m. EST | Virtual The Pediatric Centers of Excellence in Nephrology invite you to the first Network Scientific Symposium. This meeting will be an opportunity to share research findings from across the NIDDK-funded network and hear from experts and innovators about topics […]
2023 Pilot & Feasibility Awardees (Links to an external site)
Pediatric Center of Excellence in Nephrology established with NIH funding (Links to an external site)
Physician-scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a Pediatric Center of Excellence in Nephrology. Among the researchers’ aims is to create high-definition molecular reference maps showing genetic details of normal and diseased kidneys during various stages of childhood growth and development.