Megan Corn, a former member of the Kelly Lab, has recently started medical school at the University of North Dakota after finishing her undergraduate studies at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. Megan was also recently elected to be the president of the class of 2024 at UND SMHS. We are so proud of […]
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Kendan Jones-Isaac is a dedicated mentor, colleague, and friend to all of us in the Kelly Lab. At the 2020 UW MLK Jr. Health Sciences Tribute, Kendan was one of six recipients from the six schools of the Health Sciences honored with a Community Service Award. This award recognizes individuals or group members who exemplify […]
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The National Institutes of Health today announced $15 million in funding for development of 3-D tissue models, among them a University of Washington effort to study the effects of drugs on kidney “tissue chips.” The idea is that small tissue chips might be a better way to test drugs’ safety and toxicity than the conventional methods of […]
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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 […]
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The Kelly lab was awarded an ITHS pilot research grant for the proposal “Bietti Crystalline Dystrophy patient-specific RPEs from iPSCs”. In collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Chao (UW Dept. of Ophthalmology), we will generate induced pluripotent stem cells from BCD patients with the intent of driving their differentiation into retinal pigment epithelial cells-the main cell type […]
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Cate Lockhart was awarded an Elmer M. Plein Endowed Research Fund grant from the UW School of Pharmacy for her proposal “Function and Epigenetic regulation of Cytochrome P450 CYP4V2”. She will be investigating the role of microRNAs in the regulation of CYP4V2, the gene associated with Bietti’s Crystalline Dystrophy.
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Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics Ed Kelly has received the Jaconette L. Tietze Young Scientist Award from the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. He will receive one year of support of $25,000 for his project, “Identification of MicroRNA Regulators of Hepatocyte Development.” The monies provided by the award will be of great […]
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