Clinical Research Competition Winners:
- 1st – Sook Park, MD – Emory University, Nephrology, Atlanta, GA – “Intradiayltic Hypertension: Role of Sympathetic Nervous System Overactivation”
- 2nd – Gabor Bodonyi-Kovacs, MD – University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA – “Additive Effect of the GSTM1(0) Null and APOL1 High Risk Alleles On Clinical Outcomes In The African American Study Of Kidney Disease (AASK) Trial”
- 3rd – Deepti S. Moon, MD – Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD – “Impact of Area-Level Income on Arteriovenous Fistula Use Among End Stage Renal Disease Patients Initiated on Hemodialysis”
Basic Science Competition Winners:
- 1st – Ronak Lakhia, MD – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX – “Deletion of MIR-21 Attenuates Cyst Growth In A Genetic Model Of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease”
- 2nd – Pei-Lun Chu, MD, PhD – University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA – “Role Of Collectrin, An X Chromosome Gene, On Blood Pressure Regulation”
- 3rd – Brandi M. Wynne, PhD – Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA – “The Sodium Chloride Cotransporter and the Epithelial Sodium Channel Interact Within the Distal Convoluted Tubule, and is Modulated via Serum Glucocorticoid Regulated Kinase-1”
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