This Center takes a multidisciplinary, interdepartmental approach to the study of kidney disease and physiology. The Center's orientation is primarily research, but it also interacts with the Division of Nephrology for clinical aspects and the Department of Surgery for renal transplantation.
Special research interests include:
- studies of sodium chloride, fluid and potassium transport in various nephron segments using various techniques
- mechanisms for control of blood flow; glomerular filtration rate and renal autoregulation
- glomerular dynamics
- renovascular hypertension
- pathophysiology of myeloma kidney disease
- studies of hormone action on the kidney and renal metabolism
- studies of the cell physiology of renal cells
- studies of inherited (genetic) causes of renal disease and hypertension.