Past Participants & Projects
USF Participating Faculty
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Faculty |
Department |
Research Interests |
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Jessica Dominguez Rieg, PhD |
Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology |
Kidney-intestine crosstalk, the microbiome, and epithelial transport. |
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Christine Klemens, PhD |
Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology |
How the function/dysfunction of ion transport affects renal physiology in health and disease, and the effects of taurine on polycystic kidney disease |
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Ruisheng Liu, MD, PhD |
Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology |
Significance of tubuloglomerular feedback and development of therapeutic targets for acute kidney injury. |
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Timo Rieg, MD, PhD |
Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology |
Epithelial transport, electrolyte homeostasis, and regulation of blood pressure. |
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Thomas Sharp, PhD |
Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology |
Developing novel therapeutic strategies to combat cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and kidney disease. |
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Alexander Staruschenko, PhD |
Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology |
Regulation of ion channel activity and electrolyte homeostasis in the control of kidney function and blood pressure. |
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Lei Wang, PhD |
Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology |
Renal mechanisms of kidney injury and graft dysfunction after kidney transplantation. |
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Daniel Yip, PhD |
Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology |
Applying confocal fluorescence microscopy, laser-based video microscopy, and flash photolysis of caged compounds to study renal cellular function. |
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UF Participating Faculty
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Department |
Research Interest |
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Michelle Gumz, PhD Program Lead of RENUM-FL at UF |
Physiology & Aging |
The role of the circadian clock in the kidney and how it contributes to the regulation of renal function and blood pressure control. |
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Terence Ryan, PhD |
Applied Physiology & Kinesiology |
How CKD alters pathobiology in skeletal muscle and vascular disease. |
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Pinaki Sarder, PhD |
Medicine, Computational Medical Imaging Lab |
Novel computational methods to study diabetic kidney disease, kidney transplant, IgA nephropathy, and normal reference kidneys in humans. |
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Yogesh Scindia, PhD |
Pulmonary Medicine |
How dysregulation of iron metabolism in immune and non-immune cells contributes to acute kidney injury, systemic lupus erythematosus, and lupus nephritis. |
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Ashutosh Shukla, MD |
Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, & Renal Transplantation |
Advanced chronic kidney disease, transition to ESRD, and home dialysis therapies. |
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David Weiner, MD |
Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, & Renal Transplantation |
Ammonia metabolism and regulation of acid-base balance. |
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