Maryam Afkarian, MD, PhD

Position Title
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology

451 Health Sciences Drive (GBSF), Room 5404
Bio

Research Interests: mechanistic understanding of inflammation in chronic diseases; specifically understanding the innate and adaptive immune response in diabetic kidney disease (DKD), and characterizing the role of the immune response on DKD pathogenesis. First group to identify an association between urine complement components and progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD).