An inDEPTH Look at National Kidney Month

Joseph Vassalotti, MD (Clinical Professor of Nephrology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and CMO at the National Kidney Foundation), talks about how doctors should properly test for renal function using a race-independent equation, about albuminuria, and about the effects of COVID-19 on patient’s kidneys. Also, Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD (Professor at UCSF), discusses the underpinnings of kidney diseases, both sporadic and inherited, as well as the Tabula Sapiens project in which his lab contributed in-depth transcriptome data from various sites along the nephron. 

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