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Cooking with PKD: A Plant Based Approach
March 13, 2025
Cooking with PKD: A Plant-Based Approach is a four-part cooking series focusing on increasing participants’ understanding and skills in preparing plant-based healthy meals with a focus on dietary concerns of people affected by PKD. Each session will be a one-hour chef-led interactive cooking session that will be live streamed & recorded for participants who are […]
New publication alert on the Kidney-Brain axis!
February 25, 2025
Led by our PhD graduate, Dr. Afaf Saliba, under the mentorship of our director Dr. Kumar Sharma! https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/180229 This research highlights a crucial connection between kidney disease and brain health. The team found that quinolinic acid, a byproduct of tryptophan metabolism, builds up in the plasma kidney and brain during kidney failure, associated with inflammation […]
Check our schedule for ASN Kidney Week 2024
October 21, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Afaf Saliba on her Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Nobel Laureate Bruce Beutler’s Lab at UTSW!
October 17, 2024
We are excited to announce that Dr. Saliba, our recent PhD graduate, has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship position at the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center under the mentorship of Nobel Laureate Bruce Beutler, MD starting June 2025! We are proud of her achievements and excited for her […]
Join Researchers from the Center for Precision Medicine at ASN annual Kidney Week 2023 for Cutting-Edge Insights in Renal Research: Our team is at the forefront of medical innovation!
October 31, 2023
Join researchers and clinicians from the Center for Precision Medicine and the Division of Nephrology of UT Health San Antonio at American Society of Nephrology, Annual Kidney Week 2023 for Cutting-Edge Insights in Renal Research: Our team is at the Forefront of Medical Innovation! We look forward to joining Drs. Kumar Sharma, MD, and David L. […]
UT Health and Others Land $46M for Research
September 6, 2023
Dr. William Henrich, Dr. Robert Clark, and Afaf Saliba, PhD student in the Center for Precision Medicine, are quoted in this story on San Antonio Express News! Ian Tamayo of the CPM is pictured with Afaf Saliba in the image gallery. You can find the article in the San Antonio Express News here and the […]
Metabolite in urine predicts diabetic kidney failure 5-10 years early; oral therapeutic drug shows promise in mice.
August 24, 2023
Urine levels of adenine, a metabolite produced in the kidney, are predictive and a causative biomarker of looming progressive kidney failure in patients with diabetes, a finding that could lead to earlier diagnosis and intervention, researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio) reported Aug. […]
Congratulations Afaf Saliba on being selected to participate in-person at WRDMP’s educational event in Cambridge, MA!
August 3, 2023
We are proud to announce that Afaf Saliba was selected to participate in-person at Pfizer’s Pharmaceutical Careers and Postdoctoral Opportunities Educational Event in Pfizer Cambridge, MA. Pfizer Pharmaceutical Careers and Postdoctoral Opportunities Educational Event is an opportunity for PhD students within 12 months of graduation to attend an in-person event at Pfizer to learn more […]
Congratulations Dr. Shweta Bansal for receiving the Presidential Clinical Excellence award!
April 18, 2023
We are proud to announce that Dr. Shweta Bansal has received the 2023 Presidential Clinical Excellence award. The Presidential Clinical Excellence Award honors full-time faculty of UT Health San Antonio who provide clinical services as part of their appointments. Dr. Bansal has distinguished herself through exemplary and sustained expertise and represents the very finest in […]