Mert Demirci, MD

Review: Intermuscular Adipose Tissue in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Window into Muscle Quality and Health? buff.ly/r1Sw5gw

Such an honor to work with a great mentor, Dr. Kirabo and the wonderful people at #KiraboLab. I am always grateful for their support, and I am super excited to begin this new chapter!!

Featured on the cover is our paper "Aging and sex differences in salt sensitivity of blood pressure" and full version now available @PPPublishing portlandpress.com/clinsci/articl… Thanks & congrats #KiraboLab Co-authors @MDemirc1 & @jmafolabi

Outstanding talk by #KiraboLab ⁦@MDemirc1⁩ at #AHA24 ⁦@AHAScience⁩ on Association of Tissue Sodium with Nocturnal Hypertension and Dipping in Salt Sensitivity of Blood Pressure ⁦@VUMCDiscoveries⁩ ⁦@VUMC_Medicine⁩ ⁦@VUMCKidney⁩

The Kenneth D. Bloch Memorial Lecture is happening now at #AHA24! Dr. Jane Freedman, Chair of Medicine at VUMC, is delivering an inspiring talk on platelet omics. My mentor Dr. Annet Kirabo is moderating the session with Dr. Sean Wu. @annetkiraboc1 @SeanM_Wu @VUMC_Medicine

It feels great to be back in Chicago for #AHA2024! If you are curious about the role of tissue sodium in the dipping phenotype of salt sensitive hypertension, please stop by my poster tomorrow at 10:30 AM. 🫀 @annetkiraboc1

Excited to #chair the session “Filtering Facts: Insights Into Kidney Disease” at #AHA24! 📅 Sunday, Nov 17 ⏰ 11:30 AM–12:30 PM (CST) 📍 Zone 1, Science & Technology Hall Join me to explore the top-scoring nephrology abstracts presented by experts @AHAscience #Nephrology

This week's #KiraboLab Newsletter highlights the amazing time at #ASN24 #ASNKidney with friends @Carmendemigue12 and @clintoria and outstanding presentations by @MDemirc1 and @jmafolabi @ASNKidney

Great work to the exercise, mitochondria and muscle research teams @UCDNephrology @VUMCKidney for outstanding oral presentations!

Fantastic talk on RNA Sequencing Analysis of Skeletal Muscle in Moderate to Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease by Dr. Mert Demirci, MD work from Dr. Jorge L. Gamboa, MD, PhD lab ⁦@VUMCClinPharm⁩ ⁦@VUMCKidney⁩ at #ASN24 ⁦@ASNKidney⁩! So proud of you ⁦@MDemirc1!

@annetkiraboc1 @VUMCClinPharm @VUMCKidney @ASNKidney Thank you for your support and mentorship Dr. Kirabo, much appreciated!

It’s finally #ASN24! Excited to present updates from #IkizlerLab and #GamboaLab on muscle function in CKD. Grateful to share our work—don’t miss our poster and oral presentations! Hope to see you there! @RGDilaverMD @JLGamboa_Velez @AlpIkizler @VUMCKidney @ASNKidney

Happening now at #ASN24! Keynote lecture from my mentor, Dr. Ikizler on the importance of nutrition for dialysis patients@ASNKidney @VUMCKidney

#KiraboLab #postdoc @MDemirc1 is giving a lecture on #tissue #sodium and #salt sensitive #Hypertension on September 30th @VanderbiltMPB!

#KiraboLab ⁦@MDemirc1⁩ doing a fantastic job presenting poster on tissue salt and salt-sensitivity ⁦@AHAScience⁩ ⁦@CouncilonHTN⁩ #Hypertension2024! THANKS to my mentor David Harrison ⁦@endocelldoc⁩ for the continued support and legacy! 🙏🏿 Chris Wilcox‼️

Starting #Hypertension2024 with Dr. Harrison’s masterclass talk on the immune mechanism of hypertension. Looking forward to the discussions on this topic during the upcoming poster sessions! @endocelldoc

Inspired by my PI and mentor @annetkiraboc1 ’s talk about social media networking at the EFS retreat today. Publishing is key, but sharing with peers makes it stronger. Ready to make every post count! Big thanks to @EFSInsideScoop for this event.

More on this fun competition at the EFS Retreat #MarshmallowChallenge! @EFSInsideScoop @JulesBass6 @CrunchyNeuroSci

Our preprint "Myeloid Cell Glucocorticoid Not Mineralocorticoid Receptor Signaling Contributes to Salt-Sensitive Hypertension in humans via Cortisol" is now in pubmed @PubTrend pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38915603/

Mitochondria at the crossroads of health and disease: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…