2021 Awardee 

Victor Varner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Erik Jonson School of Engineering and Computer Science
UT Dallas

2020 Awardee 

Ronak Lakhia, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology

2019 Awardee 

Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology

2018 Awardee

Sarah Huen, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Nephrology

2017 Awardees

Ronak Lakhia, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Nephrology

Matthias Wolf, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Nephrology

2016 Awardees

Amanda A. Fox, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor, Vice Chair Anesthesiology Research
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Klotho: Biomarker of Early Onset of Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery

David W. Schmidtke, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering
University of Texas at Dallas
The Role of Spatial Protein Presentation in Kidney Epithelial Cell Tubule Formation

2015 Awardees

Masaki Mizuno, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Care Sciences
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The Role of Klotho in Sympathetic Regulation in Hypertension

Qing Zhong, M.D., Ph.D.
former Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Autophagy Regulated Ciliogenesis in Human Kidney Diseases

2014 Awardees

David Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Probing the roles of FGF15/19 and γ-Klotho in the kidney

Saikat Mukhopadhyay, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Role of Gpr161 in kidney development and disease

2013 Awardees

Lily Jun-Shen Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Erythropoietin receptor in renoprotection

Denise Marciano, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The role of afadin in renal tubulogenesis

2011 Awardees

Massimo Attanasio, M.D.
Former Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine 
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Role of GLIS2 in the development of cystic kidney disease (Second year of funding)

Aylin Rodan, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Instructor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Using Drosophila to study renal basolateral membrane inward rectifier K channels

2010 Awardees

Massimo Attanasio, M.D.
Former Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Role of GLIS2 in the development of cystic kidney disease

Michelle Tallquist, Ph.D.
Former Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Analysis of PDGF receptor function in the kidney

Amelia Eisch, Ph.D.
Former Associate Professor of Psychiatry
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Identification of nestin-progeny in the adult and developing kidney: application of a novel transgenic mouse

Ion Bobulescu, M.D.
Former Instructor in Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Molecular mechanisms of renal phosphate transport in human physiology and pathophysiology

2009 Awardees

Vishal Patel, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Role of microRNA in kidney development and pathogenesis of PKD

Quan-Zhen Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Immunology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Kallikrein gene targeting to modulate spontaneous lupus nephritis

John Wallingford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
UT Austin
PCP Signaling in kidney development and disease

Michihisa Umetani, Ph.D.
Former Instructor in Pediatrics and Pharmacology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Modification of kidney function by 27-hydroxycholesterol

2008 Awardees

S. Susan Hedayati, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas VA 
Association of WNK1 with hypertensive and CV effects of dietary potassium deficiency (Second year of funding)

Joseph A. Garcia, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Molecular mechanisms regulating erythropoietin production in mammals

2007 Awardees

S. Susan Hedayati, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Association of WNK1 with hypertensive and CV effects of dietary potassium deficiency

Leighton James, M.D. 
Former Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), blood pressure, and albuminuria