Aleksandr Vasilyev
New York Institute of Technology, USA
Biography
Alex Vasilyev received his PhD and MD degrees from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. He then completed his residency training in Anatimic Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a Research Fellowship in Renal Pathology. He became an Instructor in Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and later, he started as an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Sciences at the New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine. He studies kidney development, regeneration and pathophysiology using zebrafish as a model.
Abstract
Abstract : Zebrafish model of acute kidney injury sheds new light on cyst formation in ADPKD