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Kidney Institute

Organization

Directors

L. Darryl Quarles, M.D., Director
Jared J. Grantham, M.D., Director Emeritus
Dale R. Abrahamson, Ph.D., Associate Director

Scientific Advisory Panel

Billy Hudson, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Thomas DuBose, M.D., Wake Forest University

Senior Scientists On Site

Dale Abrahamson, Ph.D.
Gustavo Blanco, Ph.D.
James P. Calvet, Ph.D.
Jared J. Grantham, M.D.
Shiguang Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
Robin Maser, Ph.D.                                                   Ellen McCarthy, M.D.                                                     Min Pi, Ph.D.
L. Darryl Quarles, M.D.
Peter Rowe, Ph.D.
Gregory Vanden Heuvel, Ph.D.
Zhou-Sheng Xiao, M.D. Ph.D.
Darren Wallace, Ph.D.

Operations

Steffani Webb, KI Administrator
Krissy Hembrey, Administrative Assistant
Zora Asefi, Administrative Assistant                        Rich Grabbe, Lab Manager

Nurse Coordinators

Darlene Baker, R.N.                                                 Cathy Creed, R.N.                                                       Pam Lanza, R.N.
Anne Quarles, R.N.
Beth Stafford, R.N.

Fellows

Carol Carolton, Ph.D.                                              Nancy Cohen, Ph.D.                                              Valentin David, Ph.D.
Zhixin Huang, Ph.D.
Jian Li, Ph.D.
Yong Li, Ph.D.
Qiang Luo ,M.D. Ph.D.                                                Aline Martin,  Ph.D.                                                Johanna McCullagh, M.D.                                              Stephen Parnell, Ph.D.
Cibele Pinto, Ph.D.
Rachel Russi, Ph.D.
Madhulika Sharma, Ph.D.
Brooke Steenhard, Ph.D .
Shiqin Zhang, Ph.D.
Jianping Zhou, Ph.D.

Graduate Students

Neal Alcalay
Ben Weaver

Senior Scientists On KUMC/ KU Campus

Glen Andrews, Ph.D.
Matthew Buechner, Ph.D.
Larry Cook, Ph.D.
Arnold Chonko, M.D.
Dennis Diederich,M.D.
Jameson Forester, M.D.
Jeff Holzberlein, M.D.
Abdul Nagaria, M.D.
Kenneth Peterson, Ph.D.
Paul Pietrow, M.D.
Rudy Ravindra, Ph.D.                                                  Brian Ringhofer, M.D.
Stanton Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Jon Scheinman, M.D.
Paul Schloerb, M.D.                                                     Jason Stubbs, M.D.
Lawrence Sullivan, Ph.D.
Brantley Thrasher, M.D.
Thomas Weigmann, M.D.
James Wetmore, M.D.
Louis Wetzel, M.D.
Franz Winklhofer, M.D.
Xiaoming Zhang, Ph.D

Senior Collaborating Scientists

Christopher Bryan Ph.D.                                             Junming Luo, Ph.D.                                                   Shizuko Nagao, Ph.D.                                               Tamio Yamaguchi, Ph. D.                                    

Research Staff

Michael Branden
Jennifer Brantley
Branden Chapman                                                      Ling Chen
Flavia Costa                                                                      Li Cao
Halyna Fedosyuk
Jim Geiser
Anne Marie Hedge
Yan Hong                                                                       Min Zhao Huang
Kathryn Isom
Daniel Kim
Amy Landsberg
Li Li
Guangxiong Lin                                                          Shuhua Wang
Katie Martinez
Brenda Magenheimer
Rochelle Menard                                                          Renee Neades
Emily Nivens
Gail Reif
Gladis Sanchez
Shirin Sundar
Lyudmyla Savinkova                                                  Patricia St. John
Larysa Stroganova
Wen Tang
Luke Vierthaler                                                     Rongying Wu
Adrian Zelenchuk
Lesya Zelenchuk