Evren U Azeloglu, PhD
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Medicine, Nephrology
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Pharmacological Sciences
Research Topics
Biomechanics/Bioengineering, Biophysics, Cardiovascular, Computational Biology, Cytoskeleton, Kidney, Mathematical Modeling of Biomedical Systems, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Nanotechnology, Signal Transduction, Systems Biology, Tissue Engineering
Our main goal at the Systems Bioengineering Lab is to understand mechanobiological decision-making capabilities and to develop novel therapeutics for precision medicine. We employ multiscale experimental and computational techniques as well as microfabrication and tissue engineering methods to study cell signaling, biomechanics, tissue function and regeneration using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiovascular and renal model systems. We also use multi-platform omics technologies and network analyses for identification of key information processing hubs and regulatory motifs that can be used as therapeutic targets in drug development for complex diseases such as hypertension, diabetic nephropathy and heart failure. See Azeloglu Lab website for more details.

BE, Stony Brook University

MS, Stony Brook University

PhD, Columbia University

2015

NephCure Kidney International ASN Foundation Kidney Research Award

American Society of Nephrology

2010

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship

Life Science Research Foundation

2008

Yuen-huo Hung & Chao-chin Huang Award (2009)

Columbia University

2005

Stony Wold Herbert Fellowship

Publications

Selected Publications

The chromatin landscape of healthy and injured cell types in the human kidney. Debora L. Gisch, Michelle Brennan, Blue B. Lake, Jeannine Basta, Mark S. Keller, Ricardo Melo Ferreira, Shreeram Akilesh, Reetika Ghag, Charles Lu, Ying Hua Cheng, Kimberly S. Collins, Samir V. Parikh, Brad H. Rovin, Lynn Robbins, Lisa Stout, Kimberly Y. Conklin, Dinh Diep, Bo Zhang, Amanda Knoten, Daria Barwinska, Mahla Asghari, Angela R. Sabo, Michael J. Ferkowicz, Timothy A. Sutton, Katherine J. Kelly, Ian H. De Boer, Sylvia E. Rosas, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Jeffrey B. Hodgin, Fadhl Alakwaa, Seth Winfree, Nichole Jefferson, Aydın Türkmen, Joseph P. Gaut, Nils Gehlenborg, Carrie L. Phillips, Tarek M. El-Achkar, Pierre C. Dagher, Takashi Hato, Kun Zhang, Jonathan Himmelfarb, Matthias Kretzler, Shamim Mollah, Blue Lake, Alexander Morales, Isaac Stillman, Stewart Lecker, Steve Bogen, Ashish Verma, Guanghao Yu, Insa Schmidt, Joel Henderson, Laurence Beck, Pranav Yadati, Sushrut Waikar, Afolarin A. Amodu, Shana Maikhor, Titlayo Ilori, Mia R. Colona, Astrid Weins, Gearoid McMahon, Nir Hacohen, Anna Greka, Jamie L. Marshall, Paul J. Hoover, Vidya S. Viswanathan, Dana Crawford, Mark Aulisio, William Bush, Yijiang Chen, Anant Madabhushi, Charles O’Malley, Crystal Gadegbeku, Dianna Sendrey, Emilio Poggio, John O’Toole, John Sedor, Jonathan Taliercio, Lakeshia Bush, Leal Herlitz, Ellen Palmer, Jane Nguyen, Kassandra Spates-Harden, Leslie Cooperman, Stacey Jolly, Carissa Vinovskis, Andrew Bomback, Jonathan Barasch, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Paul Appelbaum, Vivette D’Agati, Cecilia Berrouet, Karla Mehl, Maya Sabatello, Ning Shang, Olivia Balderes, Pietro A. Canetta, Satoru Kudose, Joana de Pinho Gonçalves, Lukasz Migas, Raf Van de Plas, Roy Lardenoije, Laura Barisoni, Helmut Rennke, Abraham Verdoes, Angela Sabo, Debora Lidia Gisch, James Williams, Katherine Kelly, Kenneth Dunn, Michael Eadon, Michael Ferkowicz, Pierre Dagher, Seth Winfree, Sharon Bledsoe, Stephanie Wofford, Tarek Ashkar (El-Achkar), Timothy Sutton, William Bowen, Austen Slade, Elizabeth Record, Yinghua Cheng, Yashvardhan Jain, Bruce Herr, Ellen Quardokus, Ashley Wang, Celia Pamela Corona Villalobos, Chirag Parikh, Mohamed Atta, Steven Menez, Yumeng Wen, Alan Xu, Lauren Bernard, Camille Johansen, Sarah Chen, Sylvia Rosas, Isabel Donohoe, Jennifer Sun, Richard Knight, Anna Shpigel, Jack Bebiak, John Saul, Joseph Ardayfio, Robert Koewler, Roy Pinkeney, Taneisha Campbell, Evren Azeloglu, Girish Nadkarni, John He, Joji Tokita, Kirk Campbell, Marissa Patel, Sean Lefferts, Srinivas Ravi Iyengar, Stephen Ward, Steven Coca, Cijang He, Yuguang Xiong, Pottumarthi Prasad, Brad Rovin, John P. Shapiro, Samir Parikh, Sethu M. Madhavan, Jessica Lukowski, Dusan Velickovic, Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic, George (Holt) Oliver, Olga Troyanskaya, Rachel Sealfon, Weiguang Mao, Aaron Wong, Ari Pollack, Yury Goltsev, Brandon Ginley, Brendon Lutnick, Garry Nolan, Kavya Anjani, Tariq Mukatash, Zoltan G. Laszik, Baltazar Campos, Bijin Thajudeen, David Beyda, Erika Bracamonte, Frank Brosius, Gregory Woodhead, Katherine Mendoza, Nicole Marquez, Raymond Scott, Rebecca Tsosie, Milda Saunders, Adele Rike, E. Steve Woodle, Paul J. Lee, Rita R. Alloway, Tiffany Shi, Elena Hsieh, Jessica Kendrick, Joshua Thurman, Julia Wrobel, Laura Pyle, Petter Bjornstad, Nicholas Lucarelli, Pinaki Sarder, Amada Renteria, Ana Ricardo, Anand Srivastava, Devona Redmond, Eunice Carmona-Powell, James Bui, James Lash, Monica Fox, Natalie Meza, Ron Gaba, Suman Setty, Tanika Kelly, Chrysta Lienczewski, Dawit Demeke, Edgar Otto, Heather Ascani, Jeff Hodgin, Jennifer Schaub, John Hartman, Laura Mariani, Markus Bitzer, Michael Rose, Nikki Bonevich, Ninive Conser, Phillip McCown, Rachel Dull, Rajasree Menon, Rebecca Reamy, Sean Eddy, Ul Balis, Victoria Blanc, Viji Nair, Yongqun Oliver He, Zachary Wright, Becky Steck, Jinghui Luo, Renee Frey, Alyson Coleman, Dorisann Henderson-Brown, Jerica Berge, Maria Luiza Caramori, Oyedele Adeyi, Patrick Nachman, Sami Safadi, Siobhan Flanagan, Sisi Ma, Susan Klett, Susan Wolf, Tasma Harindhanavudhi, Via Rao, Amy Mottl, Anne Froment, Evan Zeitler, Peter Bream, Sara Kelley, Matthew Rosengart, Michele Elder, Paul Palevsky, Raghavan Murugan, Daniel E. Hall, Filitsa Bender, James Winters, John A. Kellum, Matthew Gilliam, Mitchell Tublin, Roderick Tan, Guanshi Zhang, Kumar Sharma, Manjeri Venkatachalam, Allen Hendricks, Asra Kermani, Jose Torrealba, Miguel Vazquez, Nancy Wang, Qi Cai, Richard Tyler Miller, Shihong Ma, Susan Hedayati, Andrew Hoofnagle, Artit Wangperawong, Ashley Berglund, Ashveena L. Dighe, Bessie Young, Brandon Larson, Brooke Berry, Charles Alpers, Christine Limonte, Christy Stutzke, Glenda Roberts, Ian de Boer, Jaime Snyder, Jimmy Phuong, Jonas Carson, Kasra Rezaei, Katherine Tuttle, Keith Brown, Kristina Blank, Natalya Sarkisova, Nichole Jefferson, Robyn McClelland, Sean Mooney, Yunbi Nam, Adam Wilcox, Christopher Park, Frederick Dowd, Kayleen Williams, Stephanie M. Grewenow, Stephen Daniel, Stuart Shankland, Annapurna Pamreddy, Hongping Ye, Richard Montellano, Shweta Bansal, Anil Pillai, Dianbo Zhang, Harold Park, Jiten Patel, Kamalanathan Sambandam, Mujeeb Basit, Natasha Wen, Orson W. Moe, Robert D. Toto, Simon C. Lee, Kavya Sharman, Richard M. Caprioli, Agnes Fogo, Jamie Allen, Jeffrey Spraggins, Katerina Djambazova, Mark de Caestecker, Martin Dufresne, Melissa Farrow, Anitha Vijayan, Brittany Minor, Gerald Nwanne, Joseph Gaut, Kristine Conlon, Madhurima Kaushal, Sabine M. Diettman, Angela M. Victoria Castro, Dennis Moledina, Francis P. Wilson, Gilbert Moeckel, Lloyd Cantley, Melissa Shaw, Vijayakumar Kakade, Tanima Arora, Sanjay Jain, Michael Rauchman, Michael T. Eadon. Nature Communications

Precision Medicine in Nephrology: An Integrative Framework of Multidimensional Data in the Kidney Precision Medicine Project. Tarek M. El-Achkar, Michael T. Eadon, Matthias Kretzler, Jonathan Himmelfarb, Blue Lake, Kun Zhang, Stewart Lecker, Alexander Morales, Steve Bogen, Afolarin A. Amodu, Laurence Beck, Joel Henderson, Titlayo Ilori, Shana Maikhor, Ingrid Onul, Insa Schmidt, Ashish Verma, Sushrut Waikar, Pranav Yadati, Guanghao Yu, Mia R. Colona, Gearoid McMahon, Nir Hacohen, Anna Greka, Paul J. Hoover, Jamie L. Marshall, Mark Aulisio, William Bush, Yijiang Chen, Dana Crawford, Anant Madabhushi, Vidya S. Viswanathan, Lakeshia Bush, Leslie Cooperman, Crystal Gadegbeku, Leal Herlitz, Stacey Jolly, Jane Nguyen, Charles O'Malley, John O'Toole, Ellen Palmer, Emilio Poggio, Kassandra Spates-Harden, John Sedor, Dianna Sendrey, Jonathan Taliercio, Evren Azeloglu, Kirk Campbell, Steven Coca, Girish Nadkarni. American Journal of Kidney Diseases

A large-scale retrospective study enabled deep-learning based pathological assessment of frozen procurement kidney biopsies to predict graft loss and guide organ utilization. Zhengzi Yi, Caixia Xi, Madhav C. Menon, Paolo Cravedi, Fasika Tedla, Alan Soto, Zeguo Sun, Keyu Liu, Jason Zhang, Chengguo Wei, Man Chen, Wenlin Wang, Brandon Veremis, Monica Garcia-barros, Abhishek Kumar, Danielle Haakinson, Rachel Brody, Evren U. Azeloglu, Lorenzo Gallon, Philip O'Connell, Maarten Naesens, Ron Shapiro, Robert B. Colvin, Stephen Ward, Fadi Salem, Weijia Zhang. Kidney International

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