About听Rujun Gong, MD, PhD, FASN

Professor of Medicine
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine
University of Toledo College of Medicine

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Fax: 419.383.6244
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Rujun Gong, MD, PhD, FASN听is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of Kidney Research in the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine at the听. Administratively, Dr. Gong serves as Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine. Besides, he also holds听joint professorship at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. Prior to his joining the University of Toledo College of Medicine in 2018, Dr. Gong had been Associate Professor of Medicine and the听听in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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Dr. Gong completed the seven-year Medical Education Program听(MD degree) at听, and later earned his PhD degree in Renal Physiology there.听The Research Institute of Nephrology at Nanjing University听is a premier clinical and investigative nephrology program. There, he received systemic and intensive residency training in internal medicine and renal fellowship training in both clinical and investigative nephrology. After that, he completed his postdoctoral research fellowship training at Brown University. In 2004, he was recruited to the Faculty of Medicine at Brown University and was later promoted to Assistant and Associate Professor there.

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Dr. Gong's research interests center on pathogenesis and novel therapies of glomerular diseases, in particular podocytopathies and nephrotic syndrome and glomerulopathies; and pathogenic mechanisms of renal fibrogenesis and inflammation. His other research interests include epistasis in common kidney diseases; immunopathogenesis of lupus nephritis; transplant immune tolerance; and mechanisms of acute and chronic kidney injury, repair and regeneration. His research has been well funded by the US National Institutes of Health, private foundations and industry, and has been very active and productive with book chapters, patents and over听90 scientific papers published in high impact journals, including听,听,听,,听,听etc. Dr. Gong was awarded the听听for his cutting-edge research on the fundamental role of GSK3 and melanocortinergic pathways in kidney disease. He is an elected听听and is the current听. He has served as听听or editorial board member for a number of nephrology and molecular biology journals, and act as study section member for a number of funding agencies, including the US National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Veterans Affair Merit Award, the UK Medical Research Council and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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Education

M.D. Clinical Medicine (7-year medical education program)
Cum Laude
Nanjing University School of Medicine
Nanjing, China. 1999.

Ph.D. Renal Physiology
Research Institute of Nephrology, Nanjing University School of Medicine
Nanjing, China. 2001.

M.A. Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA. 2013. (Ad Eundem)

Postgraduate Training

1997 ~ 1998听听Internship/Residency
Nanjing University School of Medicine
Nanjing, China.

1998 ~ 2001听听Nephrology Fellowship
Research Institute of Nephrology
Nanjing University School of Medicine
Nanjing, China.
November, 2001 ~ June, 2004听听Postdoctoral Fellowship
Division of Renal Diseases, Department of Medicine
Brown University School of Medicine
Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Academic Appointments

July, 2004 ~ June, 2006: Instructor in Medicine
Department of Medicine, Brown University School of Medicine
Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
July, 2006 ~ June, 2012:听Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research Scholar Track)
Department of Medicine, Brown University School of Medicine
Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
July, 2012 ~ March, 2018:听Associate Professor of Medicine (Research Scholar Track)
Director of Kidney Research, Department of Medicine, Brown University School of Medicine
Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
November, 2001 ~ March, 2018:听Medical Research Scientist
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
March, 2018 ~ present:听Professor of Medicine听
Director of Kidney Research, Division of Nephrology
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Toledo, Ohio, USA.

Awards and Commendations

November, 2004 Young Investigator Finalist Award
12th Annual Research Celebration
Lifespan & Brown Medical School
Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
July, 2005 Young Investigator Award
Rhode Island Foundation for Health
Providence,听Rhode Island, USA.
October, 2006 Young Investigator Finalist Award
Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators' Forum
Chicago, Illinois, USA.
November, 2011

Philadelphia,听Pennsylvania, USA.
October, 2017 Elected to
American Society of Nephrology
Washington, D.C., USA

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER

Molecular Biology Reports
Internal Medicine: Open Access
Kidney Diseases (Karger Journal)
Advances in Medicine: Nephrology
International Journal of Nephrology and Kidney Failure
Reactive Oxygen Species
AIMS Medical Science
ISRN Inflammation
Scientific Reports
(Openventio Publishers)

Scientific journal reviewers

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Kidney International
American Journal of Pathology
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
American Journal of Physiology Renal Physiology
American Journal of Kidney Disease
British Journal of Pharmacology
Cell Biology International
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B
Hypertension
Nephron Clinical Practice
Nephron Experimental Nephrology
Physiological Genomics
Mediators of Inflammation
Free Radical Biology and Medicine
PloS ONE
Current Drug Safety
Neoplasia
Renal Failure
American Journal of Nephrology
International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease
International Journal of General Medicine
Oncotarget
Physiological Reports

grant reviewer

The American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2012 Abstract Reviewer
;听11/18/2013-11/19/2013, SRO: Drs. Paul Amstad and Andrea Wurster
The Nebraska Research Initiative, grant reviewer 2012, 2013
Medical Research Council (MRC), UK, grant reviewer 2015, 2016, 2017
American Association for the Advancement of Science, grant reviewer 2015
Kidney Research, UK, grant reviewer, 2017
;听11/28/2017, SRO: Dr. Karen L. Block
VA Spring 2018 BL/CS Nephrology-NEPH Merit Review Committee meeting Spring 2018;听05/17/2018, SRO: Dr. Mario Rinaudo
2019/01 ZRD1 NEPH-B (01) 1 - ORD Special Emphasis Panel (SEP);听11/27/2018, SRO: Dr.听Karen L. Block
2020/08 Council ZRD1 NEPH-C 01 1, 05/21/2020, SRO: Dr. Alex Chiu
NIH Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 DKUS-P 03 M, 07/27/2020, SRO: Dr. Jonathan K Ivins

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