News

November 16, 2023

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

Related Links

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.

 

Related Links

August 15, 2023

Pellegrini H, Sharpe EH, Liu G, Nishiuchi E, Doerr N, Kipp KR, Chin T, Schimmel MF, Weimbs T. Cleavage fragments of the C-terminal tail of polycystin-1 are regulated by oxidative stress and induce mitochondrial dysfunction. J Biol Chem. 2023 :105158 (Online ahead of print)

Related Links

June 20, 2023

Breaking Through: Advancing medicine by way of research

UC Santa Barbara Magazine, Spring/Summer 2023

Related Links

January 28, 2023

Congratulations to the following undergraduate students in the Weimbs lab for being awarded URCA (Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities) grants for their research projects on polycystic kidney disease in the lab: Thomas Evans, Kareena Johnson, Reece Foehr, Cynthia Dharmawan, Sage Patel, Deeyana Roshanzear

November 25, 2022

RESET-PKD: A pilot trial on short-term ketogenic interventions in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease 

Simon Oehm, Konstantin Steinke, Johannes Schmidt, Sita Arjune, Polina Todorova, Christoph Lindemann, Fabian Wöstmann, Franziska Meyer, Florian Siedek, Thomas Weimbs,  Roman-Ulrich Müller, Franziska Grundmann

 

Abstract

Background

Related Links

November 10, 2022

UCSB News Release on the presentation of the first results of the KETO-ADPKD clinical trial at the American Society for Nephrology annual conference.

Related Links

November 02, 2022

Our paper on the Ren.Nu dietary intervention program for polycystic kidney disease is the very top viewed article in the journal.

Related Links

July 22, 2022

Congratulations to all co-authors!
Our latest paper was just published in PNAS, titled "Restoration of atypical protein kinase C ζ function in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ameliorates disease progression."

Related Links

Pages