Nephrology News and Announcements
March 2019
2019 UC Davis Nephrology: 4th Annual Kidney Research Day - Global and Public Health
March 14, 2019
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Education Building, Learning Hall (LH) 2222
4610 X Street, Sacramento Campus
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Bernadette Thomas, MD, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor
Global Health
University of Washington
Suchi Anhand, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Nephrology
Stanford University
Questions please e-mail: hs-imresearch@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 916-734-8776
October 2018
2018 UC Davis Nephrology Symposium: Emerging Concepts in Home Dialysis and Kidney Disease
October 5, 2018
Hilton Arden West, Sacramento, CA
A Continuing Medical Education Conference Presented by the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of California, Davis, Health
August 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Ching-Hsien Chen
August 2, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Ching-Hsien Chen, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Division of Nephrology for receiving 2 awards from UCOP/California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.
Title: Therapeutic Targeting to Inhibit Fibrosis Progression (Award ID: 28IR-0061)
Award amount: $925,286
Project Period: 07/01/2018 to 06/30/2021
Goal: The application seeks to identify potential smoke-responsive molecules and investigate their regulatory networks associated with fibroblast differentiation during progressive fibrosis.
Title: Tackling Stem-Like Cells in Tobacco Smoke-Mediated Cancer Malignancy (Award ID: 27KT-0004)
Award amount: $750,000
Project Period: 04/01/2018 to 03/31/2021
Goal: The central focus of this research is on how tobacco smoke regulates cancer stemness in driving tumor progression.
March 2018
UC Davis 3rd Annual Kidney Research Day
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
March 8, 2018
GBSF Building, Auditorium, Davis Campus
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Tammy Sirich, M.D.
Instructor of Medicine
Nephrology
Stanford University
Shuvo Roy, PhD
Professor
Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
Department of Surgery
Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine
UC San Francisco
May 2017
Collaborative Review Highlights Discoveries in the new Field of Onco-Nephrology
May 9, 2017
The review, Metabolic reprogramming in clear cell renal cell carcinoma, a collaborative work between members of the Divisions of Nephrology, Robert Weiss, M.D., and Omran Abu Aboud, Ph.D., Hematology and Oncology, and the UC Davis Cancer Center, helps to shed light on kidney cancer and its role in the emerging field of onco-nephrology.
Congratulations to Dr. Ching-Hsien Chen
May 1, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Ching-Hsien Chen on her successful mentorship of our undergraduate students and their presentations at the Undergraduate Research Conference on the main campus.