#AcuteKidneyInjury2025

The Arthur Grollman Visiting Professorship in Experimental Medicine

Speaker:

Anupam Agarwal, M.D.
Senior Vice President for Medicine and Dean
Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine 
University of Alabama at Birmingham

About Anupam Agarwal:

Dr. Agarwal received his medical degree with honors from Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore, India. He completed his residency at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh and then moved to the University of Minnesota, where he obtained fellowship training in nephrology. Following fellowship, he joined the Division of Nephrology at the University of Florida, rising from Instructor to Associate Professor, before relocating to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Agarwal’s research interest involves the molecular regulation of the heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) gene in renal disease, atherosclerosis and mucosal inflammation.  His laboratory has contributed significantly to our understanding of how stimuli such as heme, cytokines (IL-10 and TGF-b), nitric oxide and lipids induce the HO-1 gene, the product of which participates in the adaptive response to the injury. He also is investigating HO-1 gene delivery in animal models of injury and inflammation.