Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI receives the
2021 Early Career Award from the
International Complement Society

The Washington University press release regarding the lab’s work can be found here.

Sanjaya Sahu, PhD presents at
2021 Keystone Symposium on Innate Immunity:
Complement and Beyond

Sanjaya Sahu, PhD presented at the 2021 Keystone Symposium on Innate Immunity: Complement and Beyond. He shared his expertise on Intracellular Complement Protein Factor B Promotes Cell Survival.

The Kulkarni Lab, along with the Gelman Lab, report a rapid blood test to identify COVID-19 patients at high risk of severe disease

Dr. Hrishikesh Kulkarni has been published in JCI Insight. The article is titled “Rapid Blood Test Identifies COVID-19 Patients at High Risk of Severe Disease.” Dr. Kulkarni has received a news release at Washington University School of Medicine about his article as seen here.

The Kulkarni Lab receives the Department of
Defense Discovery Award!

Dr. Hrishikesh Kulkarni (Principal Investigator) received a Discovery Award (Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program) from the Department of Defense for the period of 7/1/20 – 6/30/22. Along with Dr. Andrew Gelman (Cardiothoracic Surgery), they will study how activators of the complement cascade (such as pentraxin 3) increase the risk of acute lung injury (primary graft dysfunction) after lung transplantation with the aim of devising therapies to block its effect.

Hrish Kulkarni, MD, MSCI Receives CDI Grant

Dr. Kulkarni has received an award from the Children’s Discovery Institute. His grant will be for $300,000 for 5 years. The title is “Harnessing the complement system to mitigate acute lung injury.”

Hrish Kulkarni, MD, MSCI Receives K08 from NIH

Hrish Kulkarni, MD, MSCI has received a K08 from the NIH. His project title is C3 Mitigates Epithelial Injury in Pneumonia. The project period will be from 09/01/2019 to 08/31/2024.

Congratulations to the 2019 SPIRiT Awardee
Dr. Hrishikesh Kulkarni!

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI, with his collaborating PI, has been awarded a $50,000/one year award for his research project through the SPIRiTfunding program. The SPIRiT (Sharing Partnership for Innovative Research in Translation) consortium is a partnership between Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) sites including: Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Washington University in St. Louis, and Yale University. SPIRiT awardees must submit projects where they collaborate with an investigator from a participating CTSA institution.

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI, receives Biomedical
Research Award from American Lung Association

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI, an Instructor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine has received a Biomedical Research Award from the American Lung Association to investigate the role of complement protein C3 in severe pneumonia.

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD received admission to
ICTS KL2 Career Development Program

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, Instructor in Medicine, received admission to Washington University’s ICTS KL2 Career Development Program as a Clinical Research Scholar.

Angel Lu wins prestigious Florence Moog Scholarship

Angel Lu, an undergraduate student in the lab, wins the prestigious Florence Moog Scholarship from Washington University. The award description can be found here.

Kulkarni Lab profiled in The Microbiologist
(February 2023)

The Kulkarni Lab was profiled in The Microbiologist, the newsletter of Applied Microbiology International (February 2023). Check out this profile here.

Kulkarni Lab’s work featured in Nature Immunology (February 2023)

Read this article in Nature Immunology here.

Science Magazine highlights work of Kulkarni Lab (February 2023)

Kulkarni Lab’s work featured in Science Magazine here.

Kulkarni Lab’s work highlighted by the International Complement Society (March 2023)

Read these accolades here

Work of Kulkarni Lab highlighted by
Washington University (May 2023)

This compelling story on the work of the Kulkarni lab can be found here.

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI recognized
for immune system research

Read about Dr. Kulkarni’s recognition for this important research here.

American Thoracic Society –
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI

Read the profile of Dr. Kulkarni by the ATS here.

The Kulkarni Lab wins the Svar Award
for Excellence in Complement  

Read the Washington University press release here.

Marick Starick presents at the Bioinformatics and Data Science Work-in-Progress Seminar Series in Nov 2023

Dr. Sanjaya Sahu invited for a webinar by the American Thoracic Society in Oct 2023

Undergraduate student Jose Vazquez selected for the prestigious 2023 summer BioSURF program

Dr. Sanjaya Sahu receives a co-PI Just-in-Time Grant from the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences for his project titled “How Human Airway Epithelial Cell-derived Complement Proteins Regulate Acute Lung Injury.”