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
Andrew F. Malone, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and an academic transplant clinician scientist. He received his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, before earning his medical degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2005. He then completed Internal Medicine training at The National Kidney Transplant Center at Beaumont Hospital Dublin and specialist training in Nephrology in Ireland before moving to the US where he received Nephrology Fellowship training at Duke University Medical Center and Transplantation Nephrology Fellowship training at Washington University before joining the faculty at Washington University. His clinical interests focus on antibody mediated rejection diagnosis and therapies and recurrent glomerulonephritis. He continues to see transplant patients at Barnes Jewish Hospital and Washington University. His research training was genetics, in particular, familial FSGS and Alport syndrome and he has been involved in the discovery of a number of genes and mutations that cause disease. His research now involves the investigation of the transcriptional and molecular responses in acute antibody mediated rejection using single cell RNA-seq methods on rejecting transplant biopsies. He is the director of the Washington University Kidney Translational Research Core for Transplantation. This is a large bio-repository of over 12,000 blood, urine, and tissue samples from kidney transplant recipients. He is currently funded by the NIDDK K08 program to study ABMR using single cell genomics methods and continue as site-PI for a number of clinical trials in transplantation. He is a current member of the American Society of Nephrology Policy and Advocacy Committee. He is also involved in education and has served as a contributor to the Renal Fellow Network and a regular commentator for AJKD online. He is a Member of the American Society of Transplantation, the American Society of Nephrology and the Royal College Physicians in Ireland.