Halpin Foundation and the ASN announce recipient of Halpin Foundation-ASN rese... (oundation for helping us fund new invest...)

Halpin Foundation and the ASN announce recipient of Halpin Foundation-ASN research grant

Date:10/30/2008

oundation for helping us fund new investigators to study this disorder," said ASN's President, Peter S. Aronson, MD, FASN.

In a concerted effort to highlight research advances and stimulate investigations regarding membranous nephropathy, ASN will sponsor a Clinical Nephrology Conference devoted to this topic during its annual fall meeting, Renal Week 2008. The session, entitled "Membranous Glomerulonephritis" will take place on Thursday, November 6 from 4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. and will feature talks by David J. Salant, MD; Stephan Troyanov, MD; Giuseppe Remuzzi, MD; and Jack F. Wetzels, MD. Joan Halpin, President of the Halpin Foundation, is hopeful this symposium will "attract a diverse audience that will be encouraged to devote time and intellect to the consideration of the pathogenesis and therapy for this disorder."

ASN will also sponsor two Free Communications sessions on nephrotic syndrome during Renal Week. "Genetics of Nephrotic Syndrome and Other Mendelian Syndromes" will take place on Thursday, November 6 from 4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m., and "New Insights into the Mechanisms of Proteinuria and the Nephrotic Syndrome: Beyond the Slit Diaphragm" will occur on Friday, November 7 from 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m..

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Contact: Shari Leventhal
sleventhal@asn-online.org
American Society of Nephrology
Source:Eurekalert

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