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Hiroyuki Kobori

Hiroyuki Kobori
Director
The Molecular Core in Hypertension and Renal, COE Tulane University Health Sciences Center, USA

Biography

Hiroyuki Kobori is an Associate Professor of Physiology and of Medicine at Tulane University Health Sciences Center, USA. He received his MD degree 1990 and PhD degree 1998 from Keio University School of Medicine in Japan. After completing his residency and fellowships in internal medicine and nephrology in Keio University, he joined Tulane University as a postdoctoral research fellow in 1998. He subsequently became Instructor 2001, Assistant Professor 2003, and Associate Professor 2006. He has been also appointed as the Director of the Molecular Core in Tulane Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence 2005. He is a recipient of distinguished awards including the Young Scholars Award of the American Society of Hypertension, Kidney Council New Investigator Award of the American Heart Association, and a finalist of Harry Goldblatt New Investigator Award of the American Heart Association. He is currently a fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, the Japanese Society of Nephrology, the Japanese Society of Hypertension, the American Heart Association, the American Society of Nephrology, and the American College of Physicians.

Research Interest

His research interest has been in  the role of intrarenal angiotensinogen in the development and in the progression of hypertension and kidney diseases and The potential of urinary angiotensinogen as a novel biomarker of the intrarenal renin-angiotensin system status. His laboratory is actively engaged in a variety of studies from cell studies and animal studies to clinical studies and epidemiological studies.