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July 01, 2025

Congratulations to Melina Messing, PhD for receiving the 2025 Jared J. Grantham Research Fellowship Award to support her research in the Weimbs laboratory. Melina will study "Immune Mechanisms Underlying Efficacy of Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy in Polycystic Kidney Disease".

 

 

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June 06, 2025

Athinarayanan, S. J.; Roberts, C. G. P.; Phinney, S. D.; Weimbs, T.; Friedman, A. N.; Volek, J. S. Effects of a Continuous Remote Care Intervention Including Nutritional Ketosis on Kidney Function and Inflammation in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Post-Hoc Latent Class Trajectory Analysis. Front. Nutr. 2025, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2025.1609737.

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May 10, 2025

Congratulations to Weimbs Lab undergraduate researcher Emily Ngo who has been accepted to the University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) program for the 2025-27 Scholar Cohort

October 31, 2024

Messing, Melina, Jacob A. Torres, Nickolas Holznecht, and Thomas Weimbs. “Trigger Warning: How Modern Diet, Lifestyle, and Environment Pull the Trigger on Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Progression.” Nutrients 16, no. 19 (January 2024): 3281.

https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16193281

 

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September 27, 2024

Congratulations to all authors!

Torres, J. A.; Holznecht, N.; Asplund, D. A.; Kroes, B. C.; Amarlkhagva, T.; Haeffner, M. M.; Sharpe, E. H.; Koestner, S.; Strubl, S.; Schimmel, M. F.; Kruger, S.; Agrawal, S.; Aceves, B. A.; Thangaraju, M.; Weimbs, T. β-Hydroxybutyrate Recapitulates the Beneficial Effects of Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy in Polycystic Kidney Disease. iScience 2024, 27 (9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110773.

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November 16, 2023

The first randomized controlled trial on ketogenic metabolic therapy in polycystic kidney disease

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September 20, 2023

Congratulations to DOCTOR Hannah Pellegrini for successfully defending her dissertation and becoming a PhD !!
Hannah's dissertation title is "Role and Regulation of C-terminal Cleavage Fragments of Polycystin-1" and her work was recently published as a first-authored paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Photos the kidney cake (before/after) attached. Nobody ever eats the ureter!
KetoCitra cocktails were a hit thanks to former star bar mixer Dr. Jacob Torres.

 

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