Ying (Maggie) Chen, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a match grant of $30,000 from the Center for Drug Discovery at Washington University. The grant will help fund proof of concept and related research directed toward targeting a novel receptor to treat uromodulin-associated chronic kidney disease.
A major focus of Chen’s lab is to investigate the molecular pathogenesis of organelle stress-mediated kidney diseases, discover endoplasmic reticulum stress biomarkers, and develop highly targeted therapies by employing high-throughput drug screening.
