Dr. Moumita Barua is a Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. She is Associate Director of the Hereditary Kidney Disease Clinic, where individuals with genetic conditions affecting the kidney are seen.
“My mission is to improve diagnostics and clinical outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease. The starting point of my work is to identify genetic causes which I then pursue using in vitro and in vivo models to define mechanisms. My team is working on three projects based on human genetic studies:
- Defining mechanisms in Alport syndrome (supported by the Alport Syndrome Foundation)
- Defining intrinsic kidney repair mechanisms (supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
- Genome-wide association study in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research)”