| | |  | | NEWSLETTER ::: NO. 17 ::: DEC 2018 | | NEW JUNIOR GRANTS 2018 | | The NCCR Kidney.CH this year awarded three Junior Grants. | Each is for the sum of CHF 60,000 per year for a maximum of three years and is intended to help increase the awardees’ professional independence and
to promote their projects. The new Junior principle investigators (PIs) are Natsuko Tokonami, Pedro Imenez Silva and David Penton Ribas.
Natsuko is a postdoc at the Institute of Physiology in the lab of Olivier Devuyst at the University of Zurich (UZH). Her primary research focus is on the paracrine regulation of renal tubular water transport. Pedro is also member of the Institute of Physiology (UZH) and comes from the Wagner lab. He is exploring the role of proton-sensing receptors in renal inflammation and fibrosis. David is a postdoc in the lab of Johannes Loffing from the Institute of Anatomy (UZH). He is interested in the role of protein phosphatases in K+-stimulated adrenal aldosterone production.
|  | | | From left to right: Pedro Imenez Silva, Natsuko Tokonami and David Penton Ribas |
| | | | Kidney - Control of Homeostasis | | is a Swiss research initiative, headquartered at University of Zurich, which brings together leading specialists in experimental and clinical nephrology and physiology from the universities of Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, and Zurich, and corresponding university hospitals. |
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