Miami Institute of Renal Medicine / Basic and Translational Research

Basic research is focused on glomerular biology, metabolomics of kidney diseases, ion channel function, hypertension, vascular biology, signal transduction, integrin biology, synthetic biology, diabetes and diabetic nephropathy.

Translational research includes kidney drug discovery and development, identification of biomarkers for proteinuric kidney disease, immunomodulatory approaches to glomerular diseases such as recurrent focal segmental glomerulclerosis (FSGS), and vascular biology.

Investigators


The Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center

The Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center (DDC) is part of the Miami Institute of Renal Medicine with a primary mission of discovering novel targets and small molecule therapeutics for kidney diseases.

The DDC is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for high content, high throughput screening research, including a confocal microscopy based PerkinElmer OPERA High-content screening system, a PerkinElmer JANUS automated liquid handling system, a Molecular Devices M5 Spectramax multimode plate reader, a Biotek automated plate washer and a Cheminnovation IDBS informatics system for managing the DDC research. The DDC also has a growing collection of small molecule libraries, most of them from commercial sources.