|  |
 | | Anne-Christine Poncelet, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Kidney Diseases
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University | | | | To elucidate the cellular mechanisms by which TGF-1 mediates renal fibrosis, focusing on the Smad signal transduction pathway, its regulation and its cross-talk with other signaling pathways in human glomerular mesangial and tubular epithelial cells. | | | | Undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the University of Liege, Belgium. In 1995, she received her Biochemistry degree under the mentoring of Dr. Joseph Martial, in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering at the University of Liege, Belgium, where she studied the regulation of prolactin gene expression in tilapia. From 1996-1999, she was a postdoctoral fellow and then Research Associate in the Department of Pediatric Nephrology in the laboratory of Dr. William Schnaper at Northwestern University in Chicago. Since 2000, she has been promoted to Research Assistant Professor in the same Department at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. | | | | Reading, taking walks or bicycle rides, cooking and shopping. But most of my free time is spent playing and having activities with my two young children and when I can take vacation I like to visit my husband's and my family and our friends in Belgium and France. |
|
