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 to 12:30 pm | Lunch | — |
| 12:30 pm to 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 - Moderator: Chelsea Estrada, Associate Professor of Medicine | ||
| 12:45 pm to 1:15 pm | "Kidneys Are Intelligent" | 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 to 1:30 pm | "Kidney-Targeted Therapeutic Development with Mesoscale Nanoparticles" | Ryan Williams, SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor |
| 1:30 pm to 1:45 pm | “Engineering Split Genes: New Avenues for Glomerular Disease Understanding and Treatment” | Shipra Agrawal, Associate Professor of Medicine |
| 1:45 pm to 2:00 pm | “A Novel RNA-Based Therapeutic Approach | Karam Aboudehen, Assistant Professor of Medicine |
| Break and Announcement | ||
| 2:00 pm to 2:10 pm | Break | |
| Session II: Impact of Kidney Disease on Overall Health: (Moderator - Farrukh Koraishy, Professor of Medicine) | ||
| 2:10 pm to 2:25 pm | "Biomarkers Linked to Adverse Kidney and CV Outcomes in Heart Failure" | Susan Hedayati, Lina Obeid Chair in Biomedical Sciences, Vice Dean for Research, Renaissance School of Medicine |
| 2:25 pm to 2:40 pm | "Drug Repurposing for Acute Kidney Injury" | Navjot Pabla, Professor of Medicine |
| 2:40 pm to 2:55 pm | "Rethinking an Old Habit: Heparin and Heart Health in Dialysis" | Andreas Kalogeropoulos, Professor of Medicine |
| Session III: Immunometabolic Regulation in the Kidney (Moderator - Rajeev Rohatgi, Professor of Medicine) | ||
| 2:55 pm to 3:10 pm | "Sweet-Tooth Neutrophils: GLUT1-Driven Damage in Glomerulonephritis" | Partha Biswas, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology |
| 3:10 pm to 3:25 pm | "Acute Kidney Injury – Opportunities For Novel Therapies Targeting Cellular Metabolism" | Sian Piret, Assistant Professor of Medicine |
| 3:25 pm to 3:40 pm | "Spatial MIST with Deep Learning AI for High Precision Kidney Disease Diagnosis and Prognosis" | Jun Wang, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering |
| Break | ||
| 3:45 pm to 4:00 pm | Break | — |
| Session IV: Fireside Chat | ||
| 4:00 pm to 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-Chaudhury, Chair, Board of Directors, Kidney Cure-the ASN Foundation for Kidney Research |
| 4:45 pm to 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks | Sandeep Mallipattu, Chief of Nephrology & Hypertension |
| Reception | ||
| 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Reception | |