Mechanisms and treatment of kidney glomerular disease

Date: 

Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

HSCI Kidney Program Inter-lab Meeting
Open to all members of the HSCI research community - no registration required.

Guest speakers:
Anna Greka, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Director, Glom-NExT Center for Glomerular Kidney Disease and Novel Experimental Therapeutics, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Synaptopodin is a coincidence detector of tyrosine versus serine/threonine phosphorylation for the modulation of Rho protein crosstalk"

and

Martin Pollak, MD
Chief of Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Principal Investigator, The Laboratory of Inherited Kidney Disease at BIDMC and HMS
Member, National Academy of Sciences
"Rare and common genetic causes of FSGS"

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