Bruce A. Molitoris, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy
Foreign Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute
Former Director, Division of Nephrology (1993 - 2011)
Affiliations:
Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Residency: University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado
Renal Fellowship: University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado
Faculty: University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado
Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
Research Interests:
Research interests include acute kidney injury from ischemia, sepsis and nephrotoxins, and the utilization of two photon microscopy to study in vivo cellular and subcellular processes within the kidney. Actin cytoskeletal and surface membrane polarity, nephrotoxin uptake and trafficking, and therapeutic responses and mechanisms to different agents are all studied. We are also presently using 2-photon microscopy to quantify the roles of glomerular permeability, proximal tubule uptake and transcytosis of albumin in determining albuminuria. He is presently funded as the PI by two NIH RO-1 grants, a NIH P-30 grant, a NIH STTR phase II grant, a VA Merit Review and several pharmaceutical and biotech companies. He has patents for several AKI therapeutics and light microscopy imaging techniques. He is a founding member of INphoton and a co-founder of FAST Biomedical. Dr. Molitoris is President-Elect of the ASN, a Foreign Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute, and is involved in numerous NIH committees and study sections.
