Ronak Lakhia
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Biography
Dr. Ronak Lakhia completed her M.D. form the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX in 2008. She then completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. In 2012, she came back to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas for nephrology fellowship. After her clinical year, Dr. Lakhia joined Vishal Patel’s laboratory where she is working on understanding the role of micro-Rna’s in polycystic kidney disease. Dr. Lakhia is funded by a NIH T-32 training grant. She has recently published her findings in the Journal of American Society of Nephrology.
Abstract
Abstract : Title: miR-21 promotes cyst growth in polycystic kidney disease