Jay Meltzer Professor of Medicine,
Chief, Division of Nephrology
ag2239@columbia.edu
My objective is to bring personalized genomic nephrology from the laboratory into patient care. Owing to the recent progress in genomic technologies, we now have the opportunity to make a precise genetic diagnosis for many patients and individualize care based on the specific molecular mechanism of disease.
Profile on columbiadoctors.org.
Associate Research Scientist
mmv2003@columbia.edu
Instructor in Medical Sciences
ns3004@columbia.edu
My research focus is the immunology of renal disease and injury. My research interests include the role of innate and adaptive immune responses play in glomerular diseases such as IgAN and C3GN, transplant immunology and the development tissue resident immunity in the kidney and bladder.
Associate Research Scientist
I am a human and mouse geneticist. I have a master in Genetic Counseling from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel and a Ph.D. in Genetics and Genomics from Boston University, MA. My career goal is to combine genomic counseling with research in the field of nephrology.
Associate Research Scientist
I am a human geneticist with a PhD in Immunogenetics from Granada University (Spain). My research focuses in elucidating the genetic basis underlying complex kidney-related disorders. My research goal is to identify new genetic variants associated with different glomerulopathies to define accurate genotype-phenotype correlations that lead to a more accurate diagnosis, better treatment selection, response to therapies and the development of novel therapies.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
I have developed a career in pediatric and adult nephrology and transplant medicine that has prepared me to identify challenges to children and young adults with chronic kidney disease. My career aims are to develop tools and implement interventions that will aid in improving health outcomes for youth with chronic kidney disease. By identifying underlying and under-recognized neurocognitive deficits and genomic disorders in children with CKD, my goal is to obtain early resources and interventions that will improve outcomes in youth with CKD.
Instructor in Medical Sciences
My research focuses on Precision Medicine and Translational Bioinformatics by applying powerful computational approaches to solve fundamental questions in biological systems and to address clinical and health problems at the individual and population levels. In 2019, I received the Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01) from the NIH. My long-term research goal is connecting the molecular world to the clinical world for the benefit of human health.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
I am an MD who is specializing in Nephrology. I came from the University of Brescia in Italy to further develop expertise in the research of glomerular and genetic kidney diseases, by applying methods of analysis and interpretation of genomic data. My aim is to incorporate precision medicine approaches in daily patient care and help develop targeted therapies in the future.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
I am a pediatric clinical fellow at University of Turin graduated at the University of Bologna. I have a strong background in bioinformatics and biostatistics and I am now working on developing an analysis tool able to perform both the clinical annotation of genetic variants on Whole Exome Sequencing data according to ACMG guidelines and identify novel disease-associated variants.
Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow
I completed my MD, PhD and pediatric residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I am now completing a clinical fellowship in neonatology. I am investigating the genetic causes of kidney disease. As a physician-scientist, I hope to improve the diagnosis and care of infants, particularly those critically ill, with congenital kidney disease.
Nephrologist, Postdoctoral Fellow (Precision Nephrology)
I am a nephrologist and a Precision Nephrology fellow in the Gharavi laboratory. I aspires to make meaningful contributions towards remedying healthcare disparities and lessening the disproportionate burden of chronic diseases experienced by underserved minority communities through the use of genomics and complex clinical data. My research focuses on strategies for making genomic medicine more inclusive of diverse patient populations and accessible to the nephrologists, in hopes of improving the clinical management and health care outcomes of renal patients through more personalized care.
Administrative Coordinator
I am an administrative professional with experience in Project Management, Finance, and Event Marketing. My qualifications and hands-on style when working with stakeholders allow me to anticipate needs and get the bigger picture — all crucial skills for decision making in a thriving lab environment.
Lab Technician
I am currently a part time epidemiology MS student at the Mailman School of Public Health. Here I work on the HIVAN research project. My interests are in infectious disease, global health, and health care disparities.
Project Coordinator
I am a nephrologist trained in Pavia and Bergamo, Italy, where I had the opportunity to get involved in clinical trials on glomerular disease and transplantation. I am here to deepen my knowledge in clinical research, particularly in the genetics of chronic kidney disease.
Clinical Research Coordinator
I’m medical doctor from Universidad Autónoma in Santo Domingo. I am a research coordinator working on studies related to the genetics of chronic kidney diseases. Our goal is to identify genetic factors predisposing individuals to chronic kidney diseases. I also work on the All of Us Research Program which seeks to extend precision medicine for all diseases by building a national research cohort of one million or more participants in the United States.
Medical Student
I am a medical student at Columbia P & S. I was born and raised in Brookline, MA, and graduated magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard College. I aim to pursue a career in academic medicine, applying genomic methods to identify novel pathogenic variants in order to deliver personalized diagnoses and treatment.
Priya Krithivasan
Bioinformatician (Left to work as bioinformatics
scientist at Covance in Redmond, WA)
Katelyn Burgess
Left to attend medical school at Emory
University
Yasar Caliskan, MD
Associate
Professor of Medicine, Istanbul University, Turkey
Travis CreveCoeur
Lab tech (left to attend medical school at
Washington University in St. Louis)
David Fasel
Programmer (took job at the Department of Biomedical
Informatics at CUMC)
Clara Fischman
Lab tech (left to attend
medical school at Mt. Sinai)
Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD, MS
Assistant
Professor of Medicine at CUMC and now heads the
Kiryluk
Lab.
Francesca Lugani, MD, PhD
Returned to Pediatric Nephrology, Gianni Gaslini Institute, Italy
Jason McCutchan
Lab tech (left to work as a software
developer at TD Securities.)
Shannon Nees, MD
Took job as a House Officer in
Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley Children Hospital at Columbia University
Ami Patel
Lab manager (left to attend medical school)
Brittany Perry
Lab tech (left to attend medical school)
Sindhuri Prakash, PhD
MD/PhD student (left to finish MD
at Rutgers)
Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, MD
Took job as a House
Officer in internal medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, New York
Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD
Took job as Instructor of Medicine
at CUMC and now heads the Sanna-Cherchi lab
Samantha Shapiro, MD
Medical Student
(left to complete residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital)
Meghan Sise, MD
Research Fellow (took job as a Research
Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital)
Roel Sterken, PhD
Left to become Project Development Manager
at DROiA, Belgium
Rosemary Thomas, MD
Returned to Pediatric Nephrology
Katarina Vukojevic MD, PhD, MSc
Postdoctoral Fellow
(left to head the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology and
Laboratory for Early Human Development at the University of Split Croatia,
School of Medicine)
Patty Weng, MD
Took job as Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics, UCLA
Rik Westland, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow (returned to
Pediatric Nephrology at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Others:
Katelyn Burgess; Kelvin Chan; Michael DiVecchia, LPN; Feyan Dong, MD; Nilgun Kacak, MD; Hussein Karnib, MD; Anita Konka, MD; Sneh Lata; Yifu Li, MD; Esther Lopez-Rivera, PhD; Riccardo Magistroni, MD; Jeremiah Martino, PhD; Natalia Papeta, PhD; Adam Reese, MD; Holly Snyder; Jingyuan Xie, MD; Shouhong Xuan, PhD
