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ANNOUNCEMENTSAnnouncementPublished Online:01 Apr 2006https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00005.2006MoreSectionsPDF (40 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailWeChat Dr. Peter Igarashi has been named the 2006 Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lecturer of the American Physiological Society (APS) Renal Section. Dr. Igarashi will deliver the lecture, entitled “Transcriptional mechanisms of renal cystogenesis,” on Sunday, April 2, 2006, during the Experimental Biology Meeting in San Francisco, California. Dr. Igarashi will also be honored during the Renal Dinner on Tuesday, April 4, 2006.Dr. Igarashi received his B.S. degree with Highest Honors from the University of California, Riverside, in 1978. He attended medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles, earning the M.D. degree in 1981. After internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, he completed a nephrology fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine (1984–1987). During this period, he received research training in the laboratory of Dr. Peter S. Aronson. Dr. Igarashi accepted a faculty position as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine in 1987 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992. He moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1999 as Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Division of Nephrology. In 2000, he was named the Robert Tucker Hayes Distinguished Chair in Nephrology, in Honor of Dr. Floyd C. Rector, Jr. He has published more that 45 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 5 book chapters, and 9 review articles. Dr. Igarashi has served on several study sections, advisory committees, and editorial boards, including the American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, and he is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.Dr. Igarashi's research focuses on kidney development, kidney-specific gene regulation, and polycystic kidney disease. He has been working to define the genetic pathways that regulate normal kidney development and to identify alterations in the pathways that are responsible for cyst formation in polycystic kidney disease. In particular, his studies are probing the roles of hepatocyte nuclear factor-1β and renal cilia in the pathogenesis of cyst formation. This work uses a combination of biochemical and genetic approaches in transgenic, knockout, and conditional knockout mice to identify and characterize the transcription factors that regulate clinically relevant genes.The APS Renal Section's Distinguished Lectureship Committee was composed of Pamela K. Carmines (Renal Section Chair), P. Darwin Bell (Renal Section representative to the APS Joint Program Committee), Jeff M. Sands (Editor, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology), and Douglas C. Eaton (APS President). Download figureDownload PowerPointThis article has no references to display. Download PDF Previous Back to Top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 290Issue 4April 2006Pages F946-F946 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2006 the American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00005.2006History Published online 1 April 2006 Published in print 1 April 2006 Metrics Downloaded 61 times