The division and its affiliated faculty have strengths in several basic science areas. These include a strong interest in the evolving area of podocyte biology, molecular genetics of cystic disease and glomerulopathies, acute tubular epithelial cell injury, epithelial cell biology, signal transduction, lipid/phospholipase biochemistry and function, kidney development, smooth muscle biology and glucose transporters, and biomedical engineering.
Several of our faculty members have joint appointments in or close research relationships with the below divisions, departments, and centers:
Divisions/Departments
- Biological Chemistry
- Biomedical Engineering
- Cell and Molecular Biology
- Genetic Medicine
- Pathology
- Pharmacology
- Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Centers
- Center for Advanced Models for Translational Sciences and Therapeutics (CAMTraST)
- Geriatrics Center
- Michigan Diabetes Research Center (MDRC)
- Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center (MNORC)
Indicative of our outstanding basic science research, our division has held four consecutive five-year grants for our George M. O'Brien Michigan Kidney Translational Core Center. There are currently only eight O'Brien Kidney Centers in the United States, which are awarded to enhance research in an already strong group of investigators.
Faculty involved in basic science research:
- Farsad Afshinnia, MD, MS
- Frank Brosius, III, MD
- Puneet Garg, MD
- Jennifer Harder, MD
- H. David Humes, MD
- Matthias Kretzler, MD
- Benjamin Margolis, MD
- Laura Mariani, MD
- Anna Mathew, MD
- Sanjeevkumar Patel, MD, MS
- Subramaniam Pennathur, MD
- James Shayman, MD
- Joel Weinberg, MD
- William Weitzel, III, MD
- Roger Wiggins, MB, BChir
