News

2023

Sep 2023: We welcome Deqiang Zhang to our team

July 2023: Welcome Kavya Arvind - O'Brien summer medical student and Annie Zhang to our summer lab experience.

Happy to share the good news of our lab alum Kiana Sadri joining medical school at MSU this fall- Congratulations, Kiana!

May 2023: Happy to share the publication of our work in the Journal of Lipid Research: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlr.2023.100381

2022

Nov 2022: Congratulations to my mentor Dr. Pennathur on winning the 2022 MICHR distinguished mentor award!

Mathew Lab welcomes Omar Chowdhary to the team

April 2022: Congratulations to our lab graduates - Max Keller, Dheer Patel, and Ben Wikander!

April 2022: Our paper is accepted in the Clinical Kidney Journal

Benitez T, VanDerWoude E, Han Y, Byun J, Konje VC, Gillespie BW, Saran R, Mathew AV. Kynurenine Pathway Metabolites Predict Subclinical Atherosclerotic Disease and New Cardiovascular Events in Chronic Kidney Disease. Clinical Kidney Journal. https://academic.oup.com/ckj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ckj/sfac138/6584419?guestAccessKey=3d1d64c7-2bcd-47d2-9209-2bda231ae114

April 2022: Julian Meza and Kayla Krusinga present the UROP Spring symposium.

2021

Dec 2021: Dr. Mathew, Alex George and Max Keller present their science at the Michigan O'Brien Kidney Center Annual symposium.

Nov 2021: Dr. Mathew is named the Abigail and Leslie Wexner Taubman Emerging scholar by University of Michigan Taubman Institute.

https://www.taubmaninstitute.org/17411-2/

Julian Meza participates in American Society of Nephrology annual meeting's KIDNEY STARS program and Trista Benitez presets her work as a ePOSTER.

Two new publications with our collaborators Dr. Shao (PMID: 34634315; Journal of Lipid Research) and Dr. Reddy (PMID: 34686860; Nature Immunology) are now available in Pubmed.

August 2021: We celebrate the end of summer and a successful move with a lab lunch get together-Thank you Jada, Max, Dheer, Alex, Julian and Ben for all your hard work!

July 28 th 2021: Mathew Lab moved to the 6th floor of the Brehm Research tower of the Kellogg Eye Center. We thank Nancy, Biaoxin, and the medical school coordinators for making this move as painless as possible!

Jun 21: Mathew Lab welcomes Alexander George - Oakland University William Beaumont (OUWB) School of Medicine student '24 as part of the The University of Michigan Kidney Translational Core Center Medical Student Training Program in Kidney Disease (MKTCC-MSTP-KD). https://kidneycenter.med.umich.edu/summer-student-program.

Jun 21: Mathew Lab welcomes Jada Lee as part of the NIH-NIDDK-STEP-UP program

Jun 21: Mathew Lab welcomes Dheer Patel- Michigan Class of 22

Jun 21: Dr. Mathew receives the University of Michigan Geriatric and Palliative Care Medicine -Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core (PESC) grant

May 5 - 7 th: Trista Benitez presents 'Tryptophan Metabolites Associate With Subclinical And Incident Cardiovascular Disease In Chronic Kidney Disease' at the Internal Medicine Research Symposium.

Jan 21: Mathew Lab welcomes Max Keller- Michigan Class of 22

2020

Dec 2020: Trista Benitez, M2 , University of Michigan Medical school presents our work ' Kynurenine Metabolites not Indole Metabolites Predict Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease' at the Annual George O'Brien Michigan Kidney Translational Center Symposium 2020. https://umobrienretreat2020.virtualpostersession.org/Trista Benitez1, Elizabeth VanDerWoude2, Yun Han3, Jaeman Byun3, Vetalise Cheofor3, Brenda Gillespie4, Rajiv Saran3, and Anna V Mathew3

Nov 2020: Our paper "Mathew AV, Zeng L, Atkins KB, Sadri K, Fujiwara H, Byun J, Reddy P, Pennathur S. Deletion of bone marrow myeloperoxidase attenuates chronic kidney disease accelerated atherosclerosis" is accepted by The Journal of biological chemistry. https://www.jbc.org/content/early/2020/11/24/jbc.RA120.014095.long
Dr. Mathew is named as Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute -Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Center of Excellence Research Scholar.

Oct 2020: Our review "Critical role for AMPK in metabolic disease-induced chronic kidney disease"Authors: Florian Juszczak*, Nathalie Caron, Anna V. Mathew, Anne-Emilie Declèves is accepted to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/AMPK_2

Oct 2020: EPoster: PO2131 — 2020 American Society of Nephrology, Kidney Week 2020 Altered Tryptophan Catabolism via the Kynurenine Pathway Associates with CKD-Accelerated Atherosclerosis: Cheofor VK; Roeser N; Zeng L; Byun J; Mathew AV

Oct 2020: The Mathew Lab welcomes Julian Meza '23 and Skyelar Herriman '24 to our team as part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

Sept 2020: The Mathew Lab welcomes Dr. Biaoxin Chai MS, PhD to our team. Dr. Chai is an experienced researcher with extensive training in biochemistry, pharmacokinetics, clinical research design, and statistical analysis.

We wish Vetalise and his family luck as he moves on to start Pharmacy School this fall. We thank him for his hard work and dedication for the last three years!

Aug 2020

The Mathew lab recovers from COVID-related interruptions and is back to modified operations with face masks, social distancing and new guidelines from the Office of Research.
We welcome Trista Benitez-University of Michigan Medical student '23 to the Mathew lab as part of the The University of Michigan Kidney Translational Core Center Medical Student Training Program in Kidney Disease (MKTCC-MSTP-KD). https://kidneycenter.med.umich.edu/summer-student-program.

Feb 2020

Our work 'Tryptophan Levels Associate with Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease' is accepted in to the Clinical Kidney Journal.

Tryptophan levels associate with incident cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease

Vetalise C Konje, Thekkelnaycke M Rajendiran, Keith Bellovich, Crystal A Gadegbeku, Debbie S Gipson, Farsad Afshinnia, Anna V Mathew, Michigan Kidney Translational Core CPROBE Investigator Group

Clinical Kidney Journal, sfaa031, https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfaa031

Published: 12 April 2020 https://academic.oup.com/ckj/article/doi/10.1093/ckj/sfaa031/5819306

Dr. Mathew is awarded the American Society of Clinical Investigation's 2020 Young Physician-Scientist Award.
Dr. Mathew is awarded the K award Grant at the Midwest Clinical and Translational Research Meeting at Chicago.

2019

Summer 2019

Aug 2019- The Mathew Lab gathers for an end of summer lunch - Thank you all for your hard work!!

July 2019-Our manuscript titled "Impaired Amino acid and TCA Metabolism and Cardiovascular Autonomic Neuropathy Progression in Type 1 Diabetes" was accepted in to Diabetes.

2019- Dr. Mathew's research is highlighted by the Office of Research at University of Michigan https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/intmed/research/clinical-research/clinical-research-spotlight/clinical-research-spotlight-anna-mathew

Dr. Mathew received the Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Award in Jan 2019 from the University of Michigan ADVANCE program https://advance.umich.edu/crosby-research-awards

Julia Petroff presented her work at the 36th annual Diebold Symposium in May 2019 at Kalamazoo College.

Kiana Sadri receives honorable mention for her poster presentation in 2019 Michigan Undergraduate Research Symposium https://percheducation.com/symposium/
UROP students -Elizabeth VanDerWoude, Matt Fate and Anoushkha Gulati receive Blue ribbons for the presentation in the UROP Spring Research Symposium 2019

2018

Abdhisalem Ahmed presented in the UROP summer symposium 2018.

Kiana Sadri and Sherwin Ali presented at the 2018 UROP spring symposium

2017

Farhan Ali receives the Michigan Kidney Translational Core Center Student Training Program in Kidney Disease grant in 2017 and presents in the UM Summer Biomedical Research Program Research Symposium in November 2017

Joyce Yu presented at the 2017 UROP spring symposium