Weining Lu
Associate Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine – Nephrology
Research Areas
Nephrology, Genetics, Fetal Origin of Adult Disease (FOAD), Developmental Origins of Health And Disease (DOHaD), kidney development, discovery of new biomarkers, artificial-intelligence-based digital pathology tools to improve diagnosis and clinical trials, and novel drug discovery and development for chronic diseases.
Why Women’s Health?
We all have about one million nephrons in each kidney to maintain our cardiovascular and kidney function and health to prevent many chronic diseases such as hypertension and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome later in life. Women’s health, especially maternal health, directly influences the birth weight and final nephron number in each kidney during kidney development in fetuses and newborns (i.e., nephron endowment), a key pathogenic factor for the Fetal Origins of Adults Disease (FOAD) and Developmental Origins of Health And Disease (DOHaD).