ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
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
Monica Chang-Panesso, MD. is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology at the School of Medicine in Washington University in St. Louis. She obtained her medical degree from Texas Tech University School of Medicine and Internal Medicine residency training at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. Dr. Chang-Panesso then completed a Nephrology Fellowship at the combined Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital program where she pursued post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Benjamin Humphreys to understand the mechanisms underlying acute kidney injury and repair. She then relocated to Washington University in St. Louis to continue her postdoctoral training in the Humphreys lab and subsequently joined the faculty at the Division of Nephrology. Most recently, Dr. Chang-Panesso became the first recipient of the endowed Roger M. Perlmutter Career Development Assistant Professorship in Medicine, which aims in helping support early-career physician scientists from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine and science to become independent investigators. Dr. Chang-Panesso’s research interest is understanding the molecular mechanisms that drive the injury and repair response after acute kidney injury and how these differs in renal aging. Her research is supported by a NIDDK K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award.