Eli Weber won the Emil A. Pfitzer Student Award at the 2017 Annual Society of Toxicology Meeting for presenting his work on modeling drug-induced nephrotoxicity using the kidney-on-a-chip microphysiological system.
Ranita Patel won the John Mahan best abstract award at the Renal Research Institute’s 9th International Pediatric Nephrology Fellows Meeting in late January. Ranita also works on the kidney-on-a-ship – her abstract was on “Utility of a Microphysiological 3D Model of the Human Kidney Proximal Tubule for Predictive Toxicity Testing.”
KRI also recognized two of our lab’s GenOM-ALVA students, Wade Washington and Jayleen Leon, for working on our kidney-on-a-chip project and gaining lab experience.
Read more at: https://kri.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/KRI_Spring2017_Newsletter_web_sm.pdf