When and Where?
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
12 pm – 6 pm
Stony Brook University, East Hall - Wang Center
Please join us for a powerful day of discovery, innovation, and possibility as we reimagine the future of kidney health. Experience groundbreaking clinical and translational research and discover how Stony Brook is uniquely positioned to lead the way in confronting one of the most urgent and under-recognized public health challenges of our time.
Event Agenda:
| Introduction | ||
| Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
| 12 pm – 12:30 pm | Lunch | — |
| 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm | Introduction | Sandeep Mallipattu, Chief of Nephrology & Hypertension Peter Igarashi, Knapp Dean, Renaissance School of Medicine William Wertheim, Executive Vice President, Endowed Chair in Graduate Medical Education |
| Keynote | ||
| 12:45 pm – 1:15 pm | Lav Varshney, Della Pietra Infinity Professor and Director of the AI Innovation Institute | |
| Session I: Novel Biomarkers and Targeted Therapies for Kidney Disease (Moderator - Ken-Ichi Takemura, Professor of Pharmacological Sciences) | ||
| 1:15 pm – 1:30 pm | Ryan Williams, SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor | |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Shipra Agrawal, Associate Professor of Medicine | |
| 1:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Karam Aboudehen, Assistant Professor of Medicine | |
| Break and Announcement | ||
| 2:00 pm - 2:10 pm | Break | |
| Session II: Impact of Kidney Disease on Overall Health: (Moderator - Farrukh Koraishy, Professor of Medicine) | ||
| 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Susan Hedayati, Lina Obeid Chair in Biomedical Sciences, Vice Dean for Research, Renaissance School of Medicine | |
| 2:25 pm - 2:40 pm | Navjot Pabla, Professor of Medicine | |
| 2:40 pm - 2:55 pm | Andreas Kalogeropoulos, Professor of Medicine | |
| Session III: Immunometabolic Regulation in the Kidney (Moderator - Rajeev Rohatgi, Professor of Medicine) | ||
| 2:55 pm - 3:10 pm | Partha Biswas, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology | |
| 3:10 pm - 3:25 pm | Sian Piret, Assistant Professor of Medicine | |
| 3:25 pm - 3:40 pm | Jun Wang, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering | |
| Break | ||
| 3:40 pm - 3:50 pm | Break | — |
| Announcement | ||
| 3:50 pm - 4: 05 pm | Announcement | Sandeep Mallipattu, Professor of Medicine |
| Session IV: Fireside Chat: Building the Future of Kidney Research (Moderator - Sandeep Mallipattu, Professor of Medicine) | ||
| 4:05 pm - 4:45 pm | Fireside Chat | Doug Johnson, CEO, Dialysis Clinic Inc. Mónica Bugallo, Interim Vice President for Research and Innovation; Peter Igarashi, Knapp Dean, Renaissance School of Medicine Prabir Roy-Chaudhry, Chair, Board of Directors, Kidney Cure-the ASN Foundation for Kidney Research |
| 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks | Sandeep Mallipattu, Professor of Medicine |
| Reception | ||
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Reception | |