ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2021
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
Oleh Akchurin, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Rohr Family Clinical Scholar in Pediatrics at Weill Cornell College of Medicine, New York, NY and an attending pediatric nephrologist in New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He completed his residency training in pediatrics at the State University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and fellowship in pediatric nephrology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY. Dr. Akchurin is a recipient of the K08 Career Development Award from the NIH NIDDK to decipher how iron metabolism alterations and iron therapy impact renal fibrosis and chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression, as well as CKD complications. Dr. Akchurin has contributed to our understanding of the role of hepcidin in the development of anemia and non-hematologic complications in juvenile CKD. His work also revealed the complexity of the interaction between iron metabolism, iron therapy, and CKD-mineral and bone disorder in juvenile CKD.