LisaGuay-WoodfordMD

Summary

• My work as an academic pediatric nephrologist focuses on identifying clinical and genetic factors involved in the pathogenesis of inherited renal disorders, most notably autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD). My laboratory participated in the identification of the human ARPKD gene as part of an international consortium and our group was the first to identify a candidate modifier gene for ARPKD. I have directed the NIDDK-funded Hepato-Renal Fibrocystic Disease Research and Translational Core Center, initially established when she was at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and she continues to serve as co-Director of the UAB Childhood Cystic Kidney Disease Core Center. My research program has been funded by the NIH, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research, and the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation. In 2009, I was awarded the Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease, given by the PKD Foundation and the International Society of Nephrology.
  I recently assumed the role of Senior Advisor for Clinical and Translational Research Initiatives and Director of the Inherited Kidney Diseases Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where I hold an endowed chair as a Presidential Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.