About the speaker

Astrid Weins, MD, PhD, is an Associate Pathologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. She is a kidney pathologist who has been attending on the BWH diagnostic renal pathology service since 2011, and also directs an active translational research program studying proteinuric kidney diseases, currently funded by NephCure. She has received the 2019 Renal Pathology Society’s Gloria Gallo Research Award for her contributions to understanding podocyte pathobiology and a 2019 Eleanor and Miles Shore fellowship by Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on understanding the pathobiology of acute nephrotic syndrome and podocyte injury by integrating morphologic observations with state-of-the-art imaging and tissue interrogation techniques.

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