Nephrology: Research
Research activities in the Nephrology Division are carried out at every level, including patients with renal disease, normal volunteers, animals, and cultured cells. Research categories include: physiology and treatment of acute renal failure, clinical trials in diabetes and chronic kidney disease, hormonal control of salt and water excretion, cellular transduction mechanisms, molecular mechanisms of cell injury, mechanisms of muscle wasting and intracellular protein breakdown, the molecular basis for the transport of anions and cations across cell membranes, cellular immunology (especially those aspects involved in organ transplantation), mammalian gene regulation, kidney development, gene therapy to the kidney, kidney cancer, angiogenesis and fibrosis, bladder function and water transport across epithelial membranes.
An NIH research training grant supports several basic and clinical science research fellowship positions. Several renal faculty are also members of other NIH training programs, including Hematology-Oncology, ObGyn, Gastroenterology, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Renal fellows in their research years may conduct studies in laboratories both within and outside of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
