Penn Engineers Catherine Porter, @HughesLabPenn & Aria Huang were recognized with an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Nikon Small World Competition for their replica of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” made with a time-lapse of canine kidney cells! View here: bit.ly/3ZUktff

CKD is a serious diabetes-related complication. This study found that SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists were superior to DPP-4 inhibitors and sulfonylurea for preventing kidney complications in a T2D population with moderate baseline CVD risk. bit.ly/CJASN0587

Biological Age Vs. Chronological age is often discussed in academic and public discourse. This article in Nature Medicine is a good read to understand the use and misuse of various "Aging clocks" nature.com/articles/s4159…

New! Online now: Quantification of nutrient fluxes during acute exercise in mice dlvr.it/TFMr8Y

Congratulations to Zoltan Arany (The Arany lab/ Penn Cardiology/ PennCVI) on his election to the National Academy of Medicine! Learn more about Dr. Arany & his research here➡️ tinyurl.com/4wbzm58y #PSOMatNAM National Academy of Medicine

Kidney innovation at the forefront Thank you suzanne watnick

We have to change this #KidneyWk2024

The Philadelphia City Council has officially UNANIMOUSLY passed the Get Out the Bike Lane bill banning stopping, standing, and parking in bike lanes citywide and increasing penalties. Thank you to Kenyatta Johnson Councilmember Jamie Gauthier and the other sponsors of this bill!!

No Stopping in Bike Lanes bill has passed, 17-0! Thank you everyone!! There will be one more vote for final approval at the next City Council Meeting

Amazing talk from ⁦Chiadi Ndumele⁩ focused on #CKM (cardio- kidney-metabolic syndrome) #KidneyWk - wonderful partnership across disciplines ⁦American Society of Nephrology⁩ ⁦AHA Science⁩ ❤️ 🫘

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Congratulations Zolt Arany for being elected to the National Academy of Medicine!

Prevent kidney failure to reduce carbon emissions ♻️ 🍃 🏭 Our new analysis of CREDENCE assessing environmental impacts from ⬇️ hospitalisations & dialysis 🏥 with SGLT2i ⬇️ emissions from inpatient bed days & dialysis by 20% (39 kg CO2e per yr) thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…

A study by Keum et al. evaluated whether pretrial eGFR decline can effectively identify patients at high risk of kidney failure. In this editorial, Drs. Hiddo J. Lambers Heerspink and Niels Jongs argue that while traditional inclusion strategies using albuminuria and eGFR have

A golden year of innovative kidney disease therapeutics go.nature.com/40iEtrz

A new Perspective by Bingsen Zhang and Frank Schroeder details the intricate coupling between metabolism and post-translational modifications nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very exciting new work from Mike Lange in Olzmann lab examining lipid quality control via lipid droplets. Congrats Mike!

Excited to share our publication in Sage Journals JBR journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07… comparing rotating shift work schemes in mice, which shows that severe misalignment of the liver clock with the light-dark cycle, not arrhythmicity, is associated with impaired glucose metabolism

Overnutrition causes insulin resistance and metabolic disorder through increased sympathetic nervous system activity dlvr.it/THFWPr

A hierarchical hepatic de novo lipogenesis substrate supply network utilizing pyruvate, acetate, and ketones dlvr.it/THG9YJ