Zaiming Luo
Assistant Professor
Nephrology and Hypertension Division
Georgetown University Medical Center
Sweden
Biography
Dr.Luo joined the Georgetown Nephrology research staff in 2005, after his Postdoctoral Research position at University of Virginia. He has been an important part of the success of the Basic Science team of Georgetown Nephrology and has had multiple grants supporting his work. His special interests include: Molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress-mediated vascular dysfunction
Research Interest
More specifically he studies: Molecular alternations of vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells in hypertension and chronic kidney diseases; comparisons of RNA and micro-RNA profiles of normal and injured renal afferent arterioles; and roles of cytoprotective gene Nrf2 and MicroRNAs in premature senescence of vascular cells.
