The latest review article from the Weimbs Lab titled "Regulation of STATs by polycystin-1 and their role in polycystic kidney disease" has just appeared online in the journal JAK-STAT
Congratulations to the following seven students who all were awarded Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) Grants to support their research projects in the Weimbs lab this academic quarter: Patrick Fann, Andrea Feldman, Alexis Gibson, Nina Heppner, Diane Rusu, Lydia Truong, Nicole Wypychowski
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a research grant to Thomas Weimbs for the proposal titled "A Novel Role of Syntaxin 3 as a Transcription Regulator". This is a 2-year Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21). The total award for the first year is $219,525.
Thomas Weimbs received the 2012 Cottage-UCSB Special Research Award for the proposal titled "An unexpected mechanism underlying genomic stability defects in polycystic kidney disease." This is a $25,000 grant for one year.
"Is suppression of cyst growth in PKD enough to preserve renal function?: STAT6 inhibition is a novel promising target", Commentary on our PNAS paper (Olsan et al) in the journal JAK-STAT
Thomas Weimbs, an Associate Professor in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department since 2007, has a lab at UCSB focuses on uncovering the underlying mechanisms of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD), a common genetic disease for which a cure still remains elusive. He is a leading expert in biomedical research.
