News and Recent Publications
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December 14 2021, Leducq Foundation Potassium in Hypertension Passes mid-term review
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December 13-14 2021, Potassium in Hypertension Leducq Foundation Hydrid Meeting Brisbane-Copenhagen-Baltimore
December 9 2021, Ava Zapf successfully defends her Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations, Ava!!!
December 2021, Ellison DH, Welling P. Insights into Salt Handling and Blood Pressure. N Engl J Med. 2021 Nov 18;385(21):1981-1993. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra2030212. PMID: 34788509.
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December 2021, Jung HJ, Coleman R, Woodward OM, Welling PA. Doxycycline Changes the Transcriptome Profile of mIMCD3 Renal Epithelial Cells. Front Physiol. 2021 Nov 5;12:771691. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.771691. PMID: 34803745; PMCID: PMC8602682.
September 2021, Nesterov V, Bertog M, Canonica J, Hummler E, Coleman R, Welling PA, Korbmacher C. Critical role of the mineralocorticoid receptor in aldosterone-dependent and aldosterone-independent regulation of ENaC in the distal nephron. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2021 Sep 1;321(3):F257-F268. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00139.2021.
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March 22, 2021. Al-Qusairi L, Grimm PR, Zapf AM, Welling PA. Rapid Development of Vasopressin Resistance in Dietary Potassium Deficiency. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2021 Mar 22. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00655.2020. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33749322
March 12, 2021. Lama Al-Qusairi wins the W. Leigh Thompson Excellence in Research: Basic Research Faculty Award at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering for her work on Molecular Underpinning of Sexual Dimorphism in Potassium Regulation
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OCTOBER 26, 2020 Dr. Hyunjun Jung and Dr. Lama Alqusairi are selected for a Young Investigator Award by the American Physiological Society to attend and present their work at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week Basic Science Symposium for Emerging Kidney Scientists
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 Tahaei et al. Distal Convoluted Tubule Sexual Dimorphism Revealed by Advanced 3-D Imaging, American Journal of Physiology, Renal, 2020. Image Selected for Cover, APSselect Award
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AUGUST 13, 2020 Louis Dit-Picard et al. Mutation affecting the conserved acidic WNK1 motif causes inherited hyperkalemic hyperchloremic acidosis, Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2020
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 Advanced Imaging |  Gene DiscoveryIdentifying Gene Networks and Physiological Pathways with Genomic Approaches in Mouse Models of Human Disease |
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 Molecular MechanismsTrafficking Signal in Potassium Channel defined |  Cell Biology |
 Signal TransductionWNK-Kinase Potassium Switch |  Kidney Disease |
The Welling lab explores the molecular underpinnings of sodium-potassium balance, hypertension, and kidney disease.
Discovering the genes, pathways, and mechanisms that define the physiology and drive disease
is our passion.