Rajasree Sreedharan, MBBS

Ellis Avner, MD

Titles
Investigator, Children's Research Institute; associate professor, Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Nephrology

Research center/program
Children's Kidney Disease Research Program

Research interests
Cell and developmental biology, kidney disease/urological disorders

Education
MBBS, Medicine, Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India, 1993; internship, Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, 1998; postdoctoral fellow, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., 2006.

Honors
Second place award, Annual Pediatric Fellows Research Competition at Yale University School of Medicine, 2005; Platform presentation at the ASPN session, PAS, 2006.

Representative publications

  • Sreedharan R, Riordan M, Wang S, Thulin G, Kashgarian M, Siegel NJ. Reduced Tolerance of Immature Renal Tubules to Anoxia by HSF-1 Decoy. American Journal of Pediatrics: Renal Physiology. 2005; 228:F322-F326.
  • Riordan M, Sreedharan R, Wang S, Thulin G, Mann A, Stnakewich M, Van Why S, Kashgarian M, Siegel NJ. HSP70 Binding Modulates Detachment of NaK ATPase Following Energy Deprivation in Renal Epithelial Cells. American Journal of Physiology. 2005; 288:F1236-F1242.

Grants

  • Relative Roles of HSP70 and HSP25 in the Modulation of Renal Injury, principal investigator, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 1 K08 DK075470-01.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226

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