Chronic kidney disease is a growing problem worldwide and in the aging U.S. population. But could the groundwork for this progressive disease have been laid… Read more
Category: Kidney Disease
Crowded Rooms: How Pitt and Carnegie Mellon Researchers Solved a Decades-Old Mystery
A psychedelic movie of stressed cells under a microscope sent a team of kidney physiologists and biologists from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon… Read more
Pitt Physician-Scientist Pushes for Prognostic Test to End ‘Silent Epidemic’
Dr. John Kellum envies cardiologists for their diagnostic tools. When someone comes to the hospital with signs of a heart attack, doctors use a battery… Read more
COVID-19 May Worsen America’s Kidney Disease Crisis
COVID-19 may be accelerating a “silent” epidemic that’s been looming over the nation’s aging population for years: chronic kidney disease. In a recent article in… Read more
Decades of Immunological Research on IL-17 Crack Genetic Code for Kidney Disease
When Dr. Sarah Gaffen first opened her laboratory in 1999, the number of peer-reviewed research papers about IL-17 – a family of pro-inflammatory substances secreted… Read more