News
2022
Smiti defended her thesis
07/07/22
Congratulations Dr. Bhattacharya!
Smiti Featured for Kidney TREKS
06/27/22
Smiti’s success has been featured at Columbia Mechanical Engineering website
SB3C Best Student Award
06/22/22
Tess won the Undergraduate Paper Competition at the 2022 Summer Bioengineering Meeting.
Manuscript Out On Science Advances
06/08/22
Our KPMP kidney atlas paper is finally out!
FuzeHub Grant awarded!
04/01/22
SBL has received funding to manufacture a next-generation vascular access device!
SB3C Travel Award
03/30/22
Tess has been awarded the Diversity Travel Award to attend the 2022 SB3C BS-Level Paper Competition!
NIH Diversity Supplement Awarded
02/01/22
Anthony has been awarded a 2-year NIH Diversity Supplement to study the mechanical principles underlying polycystic kidney disease.
Manuscript out on Scientific Data
01/20/2022
Our latest data descriptor paper is published on Scientific Data!
2021
Manuscript out on Stem Cell Reports
12/14/2021
Long-waited paper describing our fully characterized healthy human stem cell library is out on Stem Cell Reports!
NIH R01 Grant Funded
09/23/21
Azeloglu Lab and Gusella Lab have been awarded an R01 from the NIDDK to study the biomechanical drivers of polycystic kidney disease.
T32 Fellowship Awarded
08/15/21
Jon has been awarded a T32 fellowship under the Interdisciplinary Training in Systems and Developmental Biology and Birth Defects program.
NIH Diversity Supplement Awarded
03/01/21
Jake has been awarded a 2-year NIH Diversity Supplement to study the principles of mechanosensitive signaling in podocytes.
2020
Commentary out on Nature Reviews!
09/15/2020
Our commentary titled “Kidney tissue engineering for precision medicine” is out online on Nature Reviews Nephrology.
New members join the lab!
08/15/2020
Dr. Zahra Erami, Jacob Wright, and Stefanie DeFronzo join the lab!
COVID-19 Supplement Funded
08/10/2020
Our competitive COVID-19 supplement was funded by the NIDDK. We will use multi-omics assays combined with machine learning methods to find early predictors of kidney injury in COVID-19 patients.
JASN Paper Published
07/30/20
Our paper titled “LIM-Nebulette reinforces podocyte structural integrity by linking actin and vimentin filaments” was published in JASN!
2019
DoD Grant Funded
12/13/19
Azeloglu Lab has been awarded a new 3-year investigator-initiated grant from the Department of Defense to study cell mechanobiology in FSGS!
Kidney Week 2019
11/07/19
Azeloglu Lab participated in the Annual Meeting of ASN in full force. Evren gave an invited lecture on Systems Biology Approaches to Predict Glomerular Drug Toxicity.
F1000 Prime Recommendation
10/21/2019
Our Nature Communications, “Disruption of podocyte cytoskeletal biomechanics by dasatinib leads to nephrotoxicity” was recommended by Faculty of 1000!
Nature Communications Paper Published
10/14/19
Our collaborative paper with the He Lab titles “Arctigenin attenuates diabetic kidney disease through activation of PP2A in podocytes” is out on Nature Communications!
NIH F31 Funded
09/06/19
Smiti has been awarded the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship.
Kidney STARS travel Award
08/09/19
Smiti has been awarded the Kidney STARS travel award to participate in ASN 2019 in Washington DC.
Nature Communications Paper Published
05/03/19
Our paper titled “Disruption of podocyte cytoskeletal biomechanics by dasatinib leads to nephrotoxicity” is out on Nature Communications today!
2018
Kidney Week 2018 Poster Presentation
10/25/18
Xuhua presented his poster on “ Nebulette is a novel actin-associated protein that stabilizes foot process architecture in kidney podocytes” today at the Cellular Crosstalk in Glomerular Diseases session as part of the Kidney Week 2018.
NIH R01 Grant Funded
07/01/18
Azeloglu Lab has been awarded a new 5-year R01 grant from NIDDK to study cytoskeletal biophysics of kidney podocytes
PhD Scientist Innovative Research Award
10/25/18
Azeloglu Lab has been awarded an internal two-year grant from Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Grossman Scholarship
03/01/18
Smiti receives the Grossman Scholarship from School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University.
Fundamentals of Microscopy Class
02/06/18
Evren’s graduate-level “Fundamentals of Microscopy” class starts today at Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. 3-credit hands-on course will run through April 26, and it is for PhD students only
JASN Paper Accepted
01/21/18
Our collaborative paper with the He Lab titled “Protein S protects against podocyte injury in diabetic nephropathy” is accepted for publication in JASN.
Azeloglu Lab Moves to Medicine
01/01/18
Azeloglu Lab officially moves to Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology in Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai! New lab location to be unveiled soon…
2017
Nature Communications Paper accepted
11/14/17
Our paper titled “Cell shape information is transduced through tension-independent mechanisms” is accepted for publication in Nature Communications.
Kidney Week 2017 Poster Presentation
11/03/17
Smiti presented her poster on “3-D kidney-on-chip platform for quantitative screening of podocyte structural integrity” today at the Bioengineering and Informatics session as part of the Kidney Week 2017.
Scientific Reports Paper Accepted
10/18/17
Our joint paper with Birtwistle Lab titled “A Comparison of mRNA Sequencing with Random Primed and 3’-Directed Libraries” is accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Evren is the co-corresponding author
Mount Sinai Innovations Award
10/16/17
Evren receives the 4D Technology Development Award at the Mount Sinai Innovations Award Ceremony!
ASN Kidney Stars Award
08/22/17
Smiti wins the prestigious ASN Kidney Stars award to travel to Kidney Week 2017!