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 […]

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 […]

Pediatric Center of Excellence in Nephrology established with NIH funding (Links to an external site)

Decorative graphic conceptualizing kidney research

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.