Sho Hasegawa The University of TokyoJapan

Dr. Sho Hasegawa is an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, working on unraveling the mechanism of kidney disease progression. He obtained his MD from the University of Tokyo in 2012. After working as a physician for five years, he received scientific training in the laboratory of Prof. Masaomi Nangaku and obtained his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2020, where he established a method of whole-kidney 3D imaging and visualized renal sympathetic denervation after ischemia/reperfusion injury (Kidney Int 2019, selected as ISN-KI Early Career Researcher Award). He also studied the effects of HIF stabilizers on renal energy metabolism in the course of diabetic kidney disease (Kidney Int 2020) and the role of macrophage sympathetic signaling in acute kidney injury (JASN 2021). His current research focuses on organelle stress and crosstalk in kidney diseases (Kidney360 2020). He is currently serving as the 2021-2023 ISN-KI Basic Science Editorial Fellow.