Is this what enlightenment feels like? 🤯🤯🤯 Parafilm ❤️❤️

We need more people like Dr. Turek in every field. Small gestures like 👇goes a long way! science.org/content/articl…

Witnessed an airline personnel test a guy's geometry skills. He was asked to somehow fold and pack his 4x3 feet ASN #KidneyWk poster either in his small carryon or his backpack.🧐🧐Technically, his poster counts as a third carry on😒

Kick started ASN #KidneyWk with KidneySTARS breakfast. #GradGroup5

A picture speaks a thousand words: Ed Kashi ASNPresident's medal 👏ASN #KidneyWk

An emotional and powerful speech! Rulan Parekh wins the Barbara T. Murphy Award at ASN #KidneyWk

⁦Matthew Kavanaugh⁩ ⁦KU Jared Grantham Kidney Institute⁩ presenting on O-GlcNacylation in #PKD to a packed room ⁦American Society of Nephrology⁩

⁦Abeda Jamadar⁩ Two ⁦KU Jared Grantham Kidney Institute⁩ trainee talks in the same PKD session! ⁦American Society of Nephrology⁩ #KidneyWeek

Great work and excellent poster presentations by KU Jared Grantham Kidney Institute KU Nephrology Alan Yu🇭🇰 Stephen Parnell Reena Rao

Exciting talk by Madhulika Sharma showing a non-canonical role for Rpb-j in #HIV nephropathy #KidneyWk KU Jared Grantham Kidney Institute

It's #CelebrateFirstGen Week and we are honoring members at the Institute who are first-generation college students by asking them what it means to them. Here is what Kim Escobar Alvarado, a member of the ZeitlingerLab, had to say. #WomenInStem

Congratulations to Reem Mustafa for earning a distinguished ranking among the world's most highly cited researchers. Dr. Mustafa and Dr. Hartmut Jaeschke are the two KU researchers on the list: clarivate.com/highly-cited-r…

And Vishal Patel is making the best use of👇 in #PKDresearch evolutionnews.org/2023/11/the-ne…

Starting 2024 with a bang! Honored to receive a pre-doctoral fellowship from American Heart Association for my doctoral project on gene therapy for ADPKD. Huge thanks to AHA, my mentor Alan Yu🇭🇰, committee members, and referees for their invaluable support.

100% agree with Tod Ibrahim. American Society of Nephrology should pay more attention to Ph.D. and basic science research. It will be only limited progress w/o PhD scientists. Supporting PhD Scientists to Help Drive Breakthroughs, Improve Care kidneynews.org/view/journals/…

Removing journal names from CVs could shift focus to 'content first, journal second.' But for early-career researchers, it’s risky. Academia is slow to embrace change—are we ready for radical ideas like this? Good read👇 nature.com/articles/d4158…

Starting now! Grantham Symposium 2024 ⁦Markus Delling⁩ ⁦UCSF School of Medicine⁩ Characterization of ADPKD causing mutations in PKD1

Proud to be the 2024 Crouch lecturer Delivered city-wide grand rounds KU Medical Center UMKC School of Medicine Saint Luke's 🙏to legendary nephrologists Thomas Crouch and Barry Wood

I often come across PhD and Post-doc job ads where PIs say that they would reject applicants for using words deemed "non-mainstream" english in their application. This is pretty flawed! English is so diverse globally. What’s complex to one may be a daily language to another.

In Nexus, Yuval Harari points out that "in totalitarian regimes, one might feel free to ask questions, but it can lead to trouble." Got reminded of my Undergrad days. "Be curious & always ask questions" some profs said, but we knew better.