It was a pleasure to have Dr. Sanna-Cherchi @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social give an excellent, well-attended, Renal Grand Rounds at @dukekidney.bsky.social He is an embodiment of collaborative excellence💪🏾 @columbiakidney.bsky.social

I wasn’t born into wealth. I was born into the strength of Joshua Olabisi. His life story—Twice an Immigrant, Twice a Survivor—is full of grit, grace, and divine turns. Read it here: www.amazon.com/Twice-Immigr... #Legacy #Resilience #TwiceASurvivor My father’s story. My lifelong inspiration.

I am delighted to step into this exciting role. I look forward to advancing the clinical, research and educational missions of Duke Nephrology while supporting colleagues and inspiring learners!

Simone @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social is a visionary and alliance-building, result-oriented scientist. His #rFSGS biobank will help the whole community. Refer your rFSGS patients to his registry. Together, we can conquer the #rFSGS menace.

Our #rFSGS biobank is growing and we welcome patients from all over the world! Please reach out to us if you are a patient or a physician caring for one. We are creating a resource for everyone to use with the goal of resolving this disease and find new cures. #KidneyMonth2025 #RareDisease #genetics

Congratulations Dr. @opeyemiolabisi.bsky.social for being elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)! @the-asci.bsky.social medicine.duke.edu/news/two-duk...

Congratulations to Dr. Tomasi @AleTomasiMD on being appointed as the chief nephrology fellow for the academic year 2025-2026.

New from Dr Anika Lucas and colleagues in Kidney360 2nd Trimester Kidney Function and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes among Patients with Lupus journals.lww.com/kid...

Face-to-face interactions often facilitate collaboration and innovation. Therefore, @dukekidney.bsky.social research retreat focused on ways to increase purposeful interaction and collaboration. It was a time well spent!

Happy to share this excellent editorial on our recent NEJM paper www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... by Simone @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social Simone you nailed it! www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... 🙏🏽

I am delighted to be elected as a member of The American Society for Clinical Investigation! I’m thankful for my dedicated lab team, mentors, supportive family & colleagues @the-asci.bsky.social @dukekidney.bsky.social @dukemedschool.bsky.social

😁 Delighted to have my copy of ‘The Body’s Keepers’📔personally signed by author, Dr. Paul Kimmel🖋️ . This📔offers both a historical perspective➕personal look at development of kidney failure treatments, highlighting advances along w/ ongoing challenges | #KidneyHealth | #Innovation 🏥 👉🏽 t.ly/7UuYT

Summer Undergraduate Program in Kidney Science (SUPerKS) provides talented students the unique opportunity to explore research and physician-scientist careers in the kidney field with exposure to the practice of medicine. hopkinsmedicine.org/nephrology/e... Applications due by February 1, 2025

JCI - Intestinal Cyp24a1 regulates vitamin D locally independent of systemic regulation by renal Cyp24a1 in mice www.jci.org/articles/vie...

We featured Chideraa Emma-Ugwuoke an outstanding PRIME PUMP scholar in the Student Corner of the OPSD December Newsletter. He worked with @opeyemiolabisi.bsky.social. Click the link to learn more about Chideraa's summer research experience @dukemedschool.bsky.social. mailchi.mp/duke/opsd-de...

Hello there, #NephSky 🙂 Check out the December issue of KI! Topics include: 🔹#AKI after hair straightening 🔹RAS inhibition attenuates #FSGS in mice with #APOL1 risk variants 🔹A dual #GLP-1 and glucagon receptor agonist in #diabetickidneydisease 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.10.006 #MedSky

How did the #APOL1 protective variant arise on the G2 haplotype? My initial guess was by independent mutational event, but look at this: a close proximity recombination event between G0 and G2. Read this report from Martin Pollak team to which we contributed #FSGS academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

What an inspiring conference!

@gbadegesinlab.bsky.social @kidneyomicsamps.bsky.social @opeyemiolabisi.bsky.social @alessiafornoni.bsky.social @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social #rFSGS #rFSGSConference #KidneyTransplant #RareDisease #nephsky #medsky #skyneph

Minus 10 days to the first ever, recurrent FSGS Conference! Registration is open for a few more days! Meet in person >60 patients/family members, Congressmen and Senators, and top scientists! ⬇️ @gbadegesinlab.bsky.social @kidneyomicsamps.bsky.social @opeyemiolabisi.bsky.social #rFSGS #nephsky

@genetickidneydoc.bsky.social it was delightful working with you and your excellent team on this perspective.

The final version of our paper www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... One APOL1 risk variant is associated with CKD & FSGS. We have a solid basis for new mechanistic studies in our journey to find durable cure for APOL1 KD @opeyemiolabisi.bsky.social @kidneyomicsamps.bsky.social @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social

Are your patients with APOL1 kidney disease on optimal doses of ACEi/ARB? See my new commentary on an interesting mouse-based study from Pollak lab #APOL1 @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social @nephrosparks.bsky.social @kidneyomicsamps.bsky.social @gbadegesinlab.bsky.social @dukekidney.bsky.social

I look forward to participating in this important conference!

rFSGS is a major cause of kidney tx loss. There is a need for multidisciplinary rethinking of how we are going to solve this. We are all looking forward to the Dec 9th meeting in DC @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social @isgd.bsky.social #ASPN @opeyemiolabisi.bsky.social @kidneyomicsamps.bsky.social

Coming from X to Bsky and reconnecting with friends and colleagues who also fled the toxicity feels like post-apocalypse. You made it out of the cave/bunker and discovered that many of your loved ones also made it🤓