Christopher Lu, M.D.

I see patients with all types of renal disease on the inpatient service at the Univ Hospital St Paul, and renal transplant patients at Parkland Memorial Hospital.   I teach renal fellows, medical residents, and PhD candidates in Immunology.  I am actively engaged in research of acute kidney injury and of renal transplantation.  See clinical publications on this website.   For research publications, see link to Christopher Lu Lab.

Medical School	Harvard Medical School (1974)
Internship	Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (1975), Medicine
Residency	Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (1977), Medicine
Fellowship	Harvard Medical School (1980), Pathology, Neurology
Fellowship	Harvard Medical School (1981), Nephrology

• Primary Interests
• Glomerulonephritis
• Pancreas Transplant

• acute kidney injury (acute renal failure)
• perinatal infections
• transplant rejection

Featured Publications

for articles on the fundamental pathophysiology of renal disease - see link to christopher lu lab below. only clinical articles listed here

Lu, Chriistopher Kidney International January 2011 79 288-299

The inflammatory response to ischemic acute kidney injury: a result of the ?right stuff? in the ?wrong place.?

Lu, C.Y., J Hartono, M. Senitko, J. Chen. Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension 2007 16 (2) 72-89

Perspectives in basic science: Hypothesis: is renal allograft rejection initiated by the response to injury sustained during the transplant process?

Lu, C.Y., Penfield, J.G., Kielar, M.L., Vazquez, M.A., Jeyarajah, D.R Kidney International 1999 55 2157-2168

Bardoxolone Methyl (BARD) ameliorates ischemic AKI and increases expression of protective genes - Nrf2, PPAR gamma, and HO-1.

Wu Q, Wang Y, Senitko M, Meyer C, Wigley WC, Ferguson DA, Grossman E, Chen J, Zhou XJ, Hartono J, Winterberg P, Chen B, Agarwal A, Lu CY. Am J Physiol (Renal Physiol) 2011 in press

• Invited lecturer
  Symposium on Endothelium in Acute Kidney Injury, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (2011)
• invited lecturer
  US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) symposium on therapy of acute kidney injury (2011)
• Permanent Member
  NIH Pathobiol Kidney Dis Initial Rev Grp 2006-2010 (2010)
• President
  Texas Transplantation Society (2008)
• Chairman
  Kidney/ Pancreas Committee, Am Soc Transplant Phys (1996)
• NIH Research Career Devel Award
  (1989)
• Phi Beta Kappa
  (1969)

• American Association of Immunologists
• American Society of Nephrology
• American Society of Transplantation