Translational Nephrology

RESEARCH GROUPS MISSION:

Our group is interested in translational research aiming to understand the involvement of inflammatory/immune and molecular mechanisms in renal diseases. For this purpose, our group conducts basic research (animal models of renal diseases) and clinical studies (e. g. nephrotic syndrome, chronic kidney disease, nephrolithiasis, hypercalciuria, renal transplantation and congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract). Other objective of this line of investigation is to search for inflammatory biomarkers of human diseases.

ANIMAL MODELS

- Nephrotic syndrome induced by Adriamycin

- Unilateral, ¾ and subtotal nephrectomy

- Renal ischemia/reperfusion injury

HUMAN DISEASES

- Nephrotic syndrome

- Chronic and acute glomerulopathies

- Chronic kidney disease

- Nephrolitiasis and hyperclaciuria

- Renal transplantation

- Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract

TEAM

Coordinator

  Prof. Ana Cristina Simões e Silva

PHD Students

 Wagner de Fátima Pereira

 Fábio Tadeu Lourenço Guimarães

 André Barreto Pereira

 Paula Cristina de Barros Pereira

 Augusto César dos Santos Junior

 Isabel Vasconcelos de Barros Poggialli

 Soraia Silvéria Silva

 Ana Paula Lucas Motta

Master Students

 Fernanda Rodrigues Tibúrcio

 Ana Carmem Mendonça Quaresma

Graduate Students

 Patrícia Toledo Lustosa

 Ciro Mancilha Murad

 Thiago Guimarães Rosa Carvalho

 Leonardo de Magalhães Machado