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RBK Members at this year’s Kidney Week! | ATLAS-D2K Center

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RBK Members at this year's Kidney Week!

Oct 2, 2023

We are excited to announce that several members of the ReBuilding a Kidney Consortium are actively participating in this year’s Kidney Week event this November in Philadelphia! Here are the details of their presentations, organized chronologically:


November 2, 2023

  • Session: Organoids with PKD: Defining What They Are and What They Can Do for Us

    • Time: 02:00 PM EDT - 04:00 PM EDT

    • Location: Room 105, Pennsylvania Convention Center

    • Moderators: Jennifer L. Harder, MD & Peter Igarashi, MD, FASN

    • Presentations:

      • 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM: Advances, Limitations, and New Hypotheses from Organoid Modeling of Ciliopathy and ADPKD Genes by Benjamin S. Freedman, PhD (Univ of Washington)

      • 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM: Organoid-on-a-Chip Model of Human ARPKD Reveals Mechanosensing by Ryuji Morizane, MD, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital)

      • 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM: Organoid Model of ADPKD for Mechanism and Drug Screening by Cheng “Jack” Song, PhD (USC)

Session Details


November 3, 2023

  • Poster: Early transcriptional changes in distal convoluted tubule cells are evident in Pkd1 (polycystin 1) mutant mice prior to cyst development by Elizabeth Nguyen, MD, PhD (Univ of Washington)

    • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    • Poster Board: FR-PO554

    • Session Title: Genetic Diseases: Cystic - Basic [PO1201-1]


November 4, 2023

  • Poster: Benchmarking mitochondrial organization and abundance in organoids against fetal and newborn kidney tissue by Mohsina Khan, PhD (Rogosin Institute)

    • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    • Session Title: Development, Organoids, Vascularized Kidneys, Nephrons, and More [PO0600]

  • Poster: Profiling the epigenetic landscape of the African spiny mouse, a mammalian model of kidney regeneration by Elizabeth Nguyen, MD, PhD (Univ of Washington)

    • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    • Poster Board: SA-PO333

    • Session Title: Development, Organoids, Vascularized Kidneys, Nephrons, and More [PO0600]

  • Poster: Transcriptional Profiling of iPSC-derived Podocytes Comparing APOL1 Risk Variants by Lauren Haines (Cleveland Clinic)

    • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    • Poster Board: SA-PO990

    • Session Title: Glomerular Diseases: Podocyte Biology - II [PO1403-2]

  • Oral Presentation: Development of Physiologically Relevant In Vitro Model of Human Kidney Collecting Duct System Toward a Functional Kidney Replacement by Shayan Gholizadeh, PhD (Brigham & Women’s Hospital)

    • Time: 4:30 PM - 4:39 PM

    • Location: Room 108, Pennsylvania Convention Center

    • Abstract Publication: SA-OR11

    • Session Title: Bioengineering, Augmented Intelligence, Digital Health, and Data Science [OR0400]


We encourage you to support our members by attending these sessions. Looking forward to seeing you at Kidney Week 2023!