Kathleen Schwabenbauer
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow (Neonatology)
Year of Departure: 2018
Research: Identified roles of WNT-beta catenin signaling in developing bladder mesenchyme
Current position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - Division of Newborn Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pawan Puri, PhD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow
Year of departure: 2017
Research: Identified roles for FGFR/FRS2alpha signaling in nephron progenitors and postnatal renal tubular cystogenesis
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama
Julia Schaffer, MD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow (Neonatology)
Year of departure: 2016
Research: Defined development of bladder vasculature under normal and hypoxic conditions
Current position: Staff Neonatologist, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, Ohio
Deepti Narla, MD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow (Pediatric Nephrology)
Year of departure: 2016
Research: Defined role of FRS2alpha in peri-nephric duct stroma and vesicoureteral reflux
Current position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - Division of Nephrology, University of Akron, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, Ohio
Valeria Di Giovanni, PhD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow
Year of departure: 2015
Research: Defined roles of BMP and FGFR signaling In kidney progenitor cell
Current position: Manager of a Biobank at the Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
Janelle Fox, MD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow (Pediatric Urology)
Year of departure: 2013
Research: Defined roles of FGF receptors in patterning the lower urinary tract
Current position: Assistant Professor of Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Stacey Slagle, MD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow (Neonatology)
Year of departure: 2013
Research: Defined roles of Role of FRS2alpha in the lower urinary tract
Current position: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
Christina Nguyen, MD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow (Pediatric Nephrology)
Year of departure: 2012
Research: Generated a genetic model of structural kidney disease and cardiac remodeling
Current position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division Chief of Pediatric Nephrology, Case Western Reserve University, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
Sunder Sims-Lucas, PhD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow
Year of departure: 2012
Research: Examined the roles of FGF receptors in the ureteric bud
Current position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
David Hains, MD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow (Pediatric Nephrology)
Year of departure: 2008
Research: Examined the roles of FGF receptors in ureteric bud induction and vesicoureteral reflux
Current position: Professor of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, Section Chief of Pediatric Nephrology at Riley Children’s Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana
Haotian Zhao, MD, PhD
Lab role: Postdoctoral fellow
Year of departure: 2004
Research: Examined the roles of FGF receptors in ureteric bud and metanephric mesenchyme development
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York