ASCI / Emerging-Generation Awards, 2024
The Emerging Generation Awards (E-Gen Awards) recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research.
About the awardee
Magdalena Riedl Khursigara, MD, PhD is a pediatric nephrologist with a PhD in cell biology. She is currently pursuing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute, Cambridge MA, to further expand her knowledge in cell biology and multi-omics approaches. Under the guidance of Dr. Anna Greka she plans to elucidate the role of lipids in trafficking of misfolded proteins. Misfolded proteins can lead to a myriad of diseases, including kidney disease that result in kidney failure.
Dr. Riedl Khursigara completed her MD and PhD at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. She spent most of her research time for her PhD at the Research Institute of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, studying the cellular responses of endothelial cells to complement activation as well as the role of pickets for membrane architecture and neutrophil adhesion. She then completed her Pediatrics Residency and Nephrology Fellowship at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Riedl Khursigara has received numerous trainee awards and a post-doctoral fellowship from the Kidney Foundation of Canada, as well as teaching and merit awards during her clinical fellowship. She has been engaged in promoting research during residency, indicating her interest in leadership and mentorship.
Kidney diseases affect more than 850 million people worldwide, and yet targeted treatments that address the root causes of disease are lacking. Understanding the in-depth mechanism of diseases is very important to develop new therapies and to change lives. In the future Dr. Riedl Khursigara plans to continue to study the fundamental mechanisms of genetic kidney diseases in children as a clinician scientist.