Affiliated Faculty

Yale University School of Medicine is unique in having a large group of distinguished faculty whose research interests include the study of normal or abnormal kidney structure and function. The training faculty for our program includes investigators outside the Section of Nephrology with expertise in a broad range of biomedical disciplines relevant to nephrological research. This provides fellows with access to a broad range of research projects within the fields of biostatistics, clinical epidemiology, genetics, immunology, transplantation biology, physiology, and cell biology. Some of these faculty also participate in the didactic components of nephrological training.

• Walter F. Boron, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
  Physiology of ion–transport processes involved in the regulation of intracellular pH.
• Emile L. Boulpaep, M.D., Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
  Membrane channels and transporters in kidney.
• Michael Caplan, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
  Ion pumps in polarized epithelia: Sorting and function.
• Joseph E. Craft, M.D., Professor of Medicine; Chief, Section of Rheumatology.
  T cell tolerance and T–B cell collaboration in systemic lupus erythematosis.
• Barbara Ehrlich, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
  Regulation of intracellular calcium concentration and mechanisms of intracellular calcium release.
• Richard Flavell, Ph.D., FRS Professor and Chairman, Section of Immunobiology; Professor of Biology.
  Gene disruption by homologous recombination.
• Gerhard H. Giebisch, M.D., Sterling Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
  Molecular mechanisms of renal tubular electrolyte transport.
• Michael Kashgarian, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Biology.
  Study of kidney epithelia in normal and pathological states. Role of mesangial cells in glomerular sclerosis. Acute renal injury.
• Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., M.S., Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology. Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
• Marc I. Lorber, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Surgery; Director, Organ Transplantation and Transplantation Immunobiology.
  T lymphocyte control of alloimmunity. Specific immunological manipulations to effect long–term allograft acceptance.
• Joseph A. Madri, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Pathology and Biology.
  Cell–matrix and cell–cell interactions, integrin–mediated signaling, angiogenesis and vascular biology .
• Jon S. Morrow, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Pathology.
  Cell and molecular biology of cytoskeletal–membrane interactions.
• Carolyn W. Slayman, Ph.D., Deputy Dean and Professor of Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
  Molecular mechanisms of transmembrane ion transport (fungal H–ATPase, Na/H exchanger). Somatic cell genetics.
• Sun Zhaoxia, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Genetics.
  Kidney development, Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), Size control, Zebrafish genetics.