Andrey Cybulsky
Dr. Cybulsky is a clinician-scientist, and currently a Professor of Medicine and Director of Nephrology at the 91丝瓜视频 Health Centre, Montreal, Canada. He holds the Catherine McLaughlin Hakim Chair. Dr. Cybulsky obtained his MD degree at the University of Toronto and completed Nephrology clinical and research training at Boston University. He has been an active investigator at 91丝瓜视频 since 1988. Dr. Cybulsky鈥檚 research is directed at understanding mechanisms of renal cell injury. He employs experimental animal models, and molecular, biochemical and cell imaging approaches to elucidate the pathophysiology of human glomerular diseases, primarily those involving the podocyte. Dr. Cybulsky鈥檚 studies have characterized various mediators of podocyte injury, including the complement system, protein kinases, phospholipases and stress proteins. The ultimate goal of Dr. Cybulsky鈥檚 research is to comprehensively understand the pathophysiology of podocyte injury in order to develop diagnostic bioassays and mechanism-based therapies for human glomerular diseases.