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December 5, 2003|Volume 32, Number 13



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Dr. Stefan Somlo



Somlo named as C.N.H. Long
Professor in Internal Medicine

Dr. Stefan Somlo, who has been designated as the C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine, is working to unravel the genetic causes of kidney and liver diseases.

Somlo is heading a multidisciplinary research center at Yale devoted to the study of polycystic kidney disease (PKD), the most common life-threatening genetic disease in the United States, for which there is currently no treatment or cure. The center is funded by a five-year, $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Somlo and his colleagues have cloned and are using mouse models to study genes that, when mutated, can cause both PKD and related polycystic kidney diseases, with the goal of developing new therapeutic strategies for these disorders.

After earning his A.B. magna cum laude at Harvard College and his M.D. at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Somlo did an internship and residency at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (later Jacobi Hospital), Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

He came to Yale in 1987 as a clinical fellow in the Section of Nephrology at the School of Medicine and later served as research fellow and associate research scientist here. He left in 1992 to become assistant professor -- and later associate professor -- of molecular genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. There, he also served on the staffs of Weiler and Jacobi hospitals in the Bronx.

Somlo returned to Yale in 1999 as associate professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Genetics. He is currently chief of the medical school's Section of Nephrology, professor of genetics and an attending physician at both Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Haven.

The Yale scientist has been honored for his work by the National Kidney Foundation/Polycystic Kidney Research Foundation, the Marion Merrell Dow Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Somlo and his colleague, Dr. Toshio Mochizuki, hold a patent on the PKD2 gene.

His professional affiliations include membership in the American Society of Nephrology, the American Society of Human Genetics, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Interurban Clinical Club. He is the author or co-author of over 50 articles, as well as reviews and book chapters, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.


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