Former Lab Members

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