Moro O Salifu
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA
Biography
Moro O Salifu is Chair of the Department of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at SUNY Downstate. He is board certified in internal medicine, nephrology and certified in transplant nephrology and interventional nephrology. While in residency and Fellowship training, he won annual awards in the basic science category in the Department of Medicine for six consecutive years as well as four consecutive awards from the American College of Physicians. After fellowship training, he was retained by SUNY Downstate as Assistant Professor in 2001. He has directed the nephrology fellowship training program since 2001 and in 2008 assumed the roles of Chief of Nephrology and Director of the Transplant Program, roles that were crucial to the restructuring of the kidney dialysis and transplant programs at Downstate. He is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians. His research interests are CKD disease progression, vascular biology, and kidney transplant outcomes. His work on vascular biology contributed to the discovery, cloning, and sequencing of the human F11 receptor (F11R) gene. The human F11R is located on platelets and on endothelial cells and involved in platelet adhesion to endothelial cells under inflammatory conditions.
Abstract
Abstract : The role of F11R antagonists in neointimal hyperplasia in dialysis vascular accesses