Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award Program Recipients
2025
KidneyCure Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Joanna Cunanan, MS
Mice with a Pax2 missense mutation are more susceptible to focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and display impaired glomerular repair
Isaac Z. Karel
A Novel Approach to Kidney Function Monitoring
Amanda Suda, MS
Epithelial-derived miR-17~92 regulates Jak/Stat, serving in female renoprotection from acute kidney injury.
2024
KidneyCure Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Bengucan Gunen, MPH
Addressing Disparities in Renal Diet Adherence:
Leveraging Social Support to Improve Dietary Behaviors
among End Stage Kidney Disease Patients with Obesity
Arvin Halim
Modulating the Focal Adhesion Pathway with KL1 to Inhibit Cardiac Fibrosis in CKD
2023
KidneyCure Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Wafaa N. Albalawy, MS
The role of SGLT2 inhibitors in proximal tubule function
Matthew A. Kavanaugh
O-GlcNAc in Ciliary Homeostasis and Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
2022
KidneyCure Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Xinyu Dong
Integrin-related scaffold ?-Parvin regulates actin turnover to facilitate kidney ureteric bud development
Jacqueline M. Emathinger
Elucidating the protective role of proximal tubule ACE2 in acute kidney injury
Yuting Zeng, MS
Podocyte inflammation accelerates parietal epithelial cell injury in the aged kidney
2021
ASN Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Sarah N. Lipp, MD, PhD
Identifying the role of the interstitial extracellular matrix network during murine renal development.
Elinor Mannon, MD, PhD
Oral NaHCO3 alters K+ balance and promotes insulin resistance.
Riana Parvez, PhD
Lineage convergence in the regulation of fluid homeostasis in the kidney
2020
ASN Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Mariia Alibekova, MS
Elucidating the role of cell microenvironment and cell differentiation decisions in kidney organoid heterogeneity towards better models of kidney development and disease
Alexander H. Flannery, PharmD, PhD, FASN
Alternative Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System (RAAS) Activation and RAAS Therapeutics in Septic-Shock Associated Acute Kidney Injury
Tessa Huffstater
Inhibition of Cadherin-11 in Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease
Yan Xie
Comparative Effectiveness of Newer and Older Antihyperglycemic Medications on Chronic Kidney Disease
2019
ASN Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Benjamin Charles Bowe, III, PhD, MPH
Identification of Inpatient Acute Kidney Injury Phenotypes Using Large Scale Electronic Medical Records
Yijiang Chen, PhD
Computational Pathology Approach for characterizing kidney biopsies and predicting APOL1 risk variants
Pei-Ju Liu, PhD
The role of Myo1e- and clathrin-dependent endocytic trafficking in podocyte health and disease
Franco J. Puleo
Sympathetic Nervous System regulation of the NCC in Salt Sensitive Hypertension
Annie Ryan
Elucidating vascular signals in nephron formation using human organoids
2018
ASN Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Sunjae Bae, MD, PhD, MPH
Tailored Immunosuppression for Kidney Transplant Recipients
Vasileios Gerakopoulos, MS
An Essential Role of the Polycystin Complex in Ciliary Disassembly
Fatimah Kareem Khalaf, MBChB
Paraoxonase-1 regulation of renal inflammation in Chronic Kidney Disease
Rhiannon D. Reed, DrPH
Evaluating the Implementation and Effectiveness of the Living Donor Navigator Program
Katherine E. Shipman, PhD
Megalin Traffic in Dent Disease