ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Petter Bjornstad, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, and a NIH and JDRF funded clinician-scientist whose research focuses on neurohormonal, metabolic and hemodynamic mechanisms underlying the development of early kidney disease in youth and adults with type 1 and 2 diabetes. His lab is known for applying an integrative biological approach to better understand early DKD, and are experts in hyperglycemic and hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamps to assess insulin secretion and sensitivity, iohexol and p-aminohippurate clearance to quantify GFR and ERPF, and functional MRI and PET imaging to determine renal energetics. Dr. Bjornstad and his lab have recently expanded their investigations to include research kidney biopsies with morphometrics and single-cell transcriptomics. Dr. Bjornstad is the Co-Chair of the Renal Working Group of NIH-funded Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth (TODAY) study, as well as an investigator of NIH-funded Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP).