Jeff M. Sands, MD, Juha P. Kokko professor of medicine and physiology, and director of the Division of Renal Medicine in the Department of Medicine, has been awarded an honorary doctorate (Doctorum Medicinae Honoris Causa)…
Ryan Downey, PhD (post-doctoral researcher, Emory Division of Renal Medicine) and Emory Renal Fellow Marc Saad, MD were recently recognized at this year’s Nephrology Young Investigator Forum at the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (SSCI) meeting in…
The Emory University School of Medicine Nephrology (Renal Medicine) Fellowship training program provides comprehensive training in clinical nephrology and research in areas related to normal physiology and diseases of the kidney. Our mission is to…
Summer Undergraduate Program in Emory Renal Research (SUPERR) students recently attended the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases (NIDDK KUH) Research Symposium at Mayo Clinic…
Emory Division of Renal Medicine (Nephrology) Director Jeff Sands, MD investigates mechanisms for concentrating urine in the inner medulla of the kidney. Current Emory research projects focus on defining the molecular physiology of urea transporters,…
Kidney disease is the fourth-highest cause of death in the United States, and its disproportionate incidence in African-American patients calls for a swift and intensive effort to make advances. Despite the fact that African Americans…
The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has selected Jeff M. Sands, MD, FASN for the Barry Brenner, MD Endowed Lectureship at Kidney Week 2015. This prestigious lectureship recognizes physicians whose efforts to improve the…
Complementing Drs. Jeff Sands and Mitsi Blount’s National Institutes of Health R25 grant [Summer Undergraduate Program in Emory Renal Research (SUPERR)], NIH has given the Renal Division the opportunity to host the KUH Summer Undergraduate…