A retired cardiovascular surgeon, received his B.A., BS, M.S., M.D., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.  He completed his general surgical training at the University of Minnesota and completed his cardiovascular surgical fellowship training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, CO.  Dr. St.Cyr has extensive research credentials, widely published, received numerous research grants, has numerous patents and has presented at both national and international meetings.  He has consulted for many medical/surgical companies.  Dr. St. Cyr is a member of numerous scientific research, medical, and surgical societies.

Research Interest:  Pediatric cardiovascular surgery, Congenital heart disease, Adult cardiovascular surgery, Heart failure, Myocardial metabolism, Adenine nucleotides, D-ribose, Dialysis, Blood storage, Stem cell technology research

Number of publications: 200

Research Interest: Endocrinology, world-renowned expert in endocrinology, chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease, and vitamin D and nutrition.

Research Interest: Peritoneal Dialysis, Secondary Hypertension, CKD and Cardiovascular disease.

Research Interest: Renal cancer Cell field (using metabolomics approaches).

Research Interest: Kidney transplantation, organ allocation, living kidney donation.

Research Interest: Hemodialysis, kidney transplantation, and peritoneal dialysis.

Research Interest: Renal pathology, emerging renal disease, diabetic glomerulopathy, lysozyme induced tubular injury, membranous glomerulopathy, collagenofibrotic glomerulopathy and fibrillary glomerulopathy.

Research Interest: Chronic kidney disease, nutrition, metabolic abnormalities of CKD, insulin actions, muscle metabolism, protein and amino acid metabolism.

Research Interest: Amyloid, myeloma, ultrastructure, light & heavy chains.

Research Interest: Renal biopsy, transplantation pathology and biology, renal neoplasm and acute kidney injury.

Research Interest: Kidney fibrosis, kidney hypertrophy, kidney damage, kidney cancer and clinical link of RCC and diabetes.

Research Interest: Renal Osteodystrophy, Hypertension, Dialysis and ESRD.

Research Interest: Haemodialysis, Haemodiafiltration, Infection Control and Anemia of CKD

Research Interest: Hemodialysis, AKI, CKD and Pre-Dialysis Care, Hepatitis in HD, Anemia in CKD and Transplantation.

Research Interest: Prostate cell cancer, renal cancer and bladder cancer.

Research Interest: Glomerulonephritis, Nephrotic syndrome, CAKUT, Tubulopathies, Acute kidney Injury, Vasculitis, Genetic and Rare Renal Diseases.

Research Interest: Nephrology, Treatment of renal failure, Diabetes care, Heart transplantation and Plasmatic exchanges.

Research Interest: Interventional nephrology, bioimpedance, clinival research in systemic diseases with renal involvement, plasmapheresis, immunoadsorption, several methods of renal replacement therapies and iocompatibility of hemodialysis dialyzers.

Research Interest: Cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease, Cardiac biomarkers research in chronic kidney disease, vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease, Cardio-renal link in peritoneal dialysis and Nutrition in peritoneal dialysis.

Research Interest: nephritic syndrome dialysis acut and chronic uraemia Waiting for your response.

Research Interest: Transplantation, systemic lupus erythematodes, acute kidney injury, chronic renal failure and small non-coding RNAs (miRNA).

Research Interest: Hemodynamics, renin-angiotensin system and renal fibrosis from molecules to bedside.

Yoshihide Ogawa MD, PhD is an emeritus Professor, the University of Ryukyus, He took clinical clerkship at Tubingen University in Germany and externship at Yokosuka, Tachikawa, Zama US Hospitals. He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine, finished his residency in urology at Keio University Hospital and fellowship in transplant surgery at Medical College of Virginia (USA) as well as licensed in Virginia (Va State Board of Medicine). He worked as a faculty at Tsukuba University, Juntendo University, University of the Ryukyus, and Keio University. He worked actively as nephrologist at Tokyo-West Tokushukai Hospital and as urologist at Musashino Tokushukai Hospital. Now, he is working as urologist at Department of Urology, Towa Hospital.

Research Interest:

1) Kidney transplant and kidney cancer
2) Urolithiasis
3) Pediatric urology and surgical urology
4) Dialysis

Research Interest: Intrarenal renin-angiotensin system, hypertension and circadian rhythm.

Research Interest: Nephrology, renal tubular disorders, urology, pediatrics and Kawasaki disease.

Research Interest: Proteomic, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, kidney stones and erectile disfunction.

Research Interest: Aquaporins, cytoskeleton, Calcium sensing receptor (CaSR), Pendrin, Salt and Water balance and Collecting duct Disorders.

Research Interest: Nephrology.

Research Interest: Renal Transplantation, Transplational Medicine, Genomics, Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Basic Science.

Research Interest: Chronic kidney disease in older patients, Comprehensive geriatric assessment, hemodialysis and Molecular genetics of kidney disease.

Research Interest: Obesity, BMI, Kidney transplantation, Renal disease, Blood Pressure, Hypertension, Adiponectin and NGF.

Research Interest: Pediatrics, nephrology and neonatology.

Research Interest: Doppler Ultrasound, Imaging, Rare renal disease, ultrasound, contrast enhanced US, Renal biopsy, vascular access and transcriptomics.

Research Interest: Phosphorus metabolism in CKD, Nutritional problems in CKD, Sexual dysfunction in CKD, Carnitine metabolism in CKD, Central and peripheral nervous system in CKD.

Research Interest: ACID BASE, Haptoglobin genotypes, Near Infra Red (NIR), Nutrition Score, CKD, AKI and VOC (volatile organic compounds).

Research Interest: Nephrotic syndrome polycystic kidney diseases atypical haemolytic uremic syndrome chronic kidney disease.

Research Interest: Hemodialysis; Dialyzer; Heparin; Anticoagulation; Thrombosis, Biomarker; Bleeding, Growth Factor; Endothelium; Vascular Wall; Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Disease.

Research Interest: Anaemia; hypertension; heart failure; sudden cardiac death; hyperphosphatemia; vascular calcification; atherosclerosis; chronic kidney disease; dialysis and diabetes.

Research Interest: Immunosuppressive therapy, primary and secondary glomerulonephritis, renal, liver, pancreas transplantation infections in patients under immunosuppressive therapy.

Research Interest: Renal transplantation, sensitization, rejection and Peritoneal dialysis access.

Research Interest: Chronic kidney disease, Diabetic nephropathy, Inflammation, Cardiovascular disease, FGF23 and Klotho.

Research Interest: Diabetic nephropathy, microalbuminuria, pentoxiffilyne, TNF-alfa and inflammmation.

Research Interest: Glomerulonephritis, Renal cystic disease, Proteinuria and Structure of glomerulus.

Research Interest: hemodialysis peritoneal dialysis cardiovascular disease hypertension kidney biopsy pulse wave velocity ambulatory blood pressure measurement.

Research Interest: Renal Hemodynamics, Nephrotoxicity, Renal Microcirculation, Renal Hormones, Nephrolithiasis, Acute Kidney Injury, Urinary Trac Infection, Renal Cell Biology and Stem Cells.

Research Interest: laparoscopic partial nephrectomy, renal surgical training, animal models, renal comparative anatomy and kidney healing.

Research Interest: Quality of life, exercise, hemodialysis, chronic kidney disease, peritoneal dialysis, kidney transplantation and high blood pressure.

Research Interest: Infectious Diseases, Travelers Medicine and Bacterial Resistance.

Research Interest: Ureterosopy, Flexible Ureterosopy, Percutaneous nephrolithotomy, Transurethral surgery(TURP,TUR-Bt, HOLEP) and Laparoscopy in urology.

Research Interest: My research focused on chronic kidney disease and therapeutic effect of natural medicines using pharmacology, biochemistry, metabolomics and lipidomics techniques. I also am studying the oxidative stress, inflammation, and pro-fibrotic pathways of chronic kidney disease and tubulo-interstitial diseases, molecular biology of kidney gene expression.

Research Interest: Kidney Transplantation, Antibody-mediated rejection and Transplant Immunology.

Research Interest: kidney injury.

Research Interest: Hemodialysis patients,Hepcidin,Urinary Osteoprotegrin and Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 and Biomarkers of diabetic nephropathy.

Research Interest: Genetic and metabolic kidney diseases, focusing on the clinical and molecular characterization of cystinosis, cystic kidney diseases and other ciliopathies, podocytopathies and steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome, primary hyperoxaluria, cystinuria, and collagen IV nephropathies.

Research Interest: Gene Network Mapping Related with cyst formation, Large scale microarray gene expression analysis in disease diagnosis and mechanism study, Differential DNA methylation in kidney tissues by genome-wide analysis, Functional analysis of breast cancer biomarker, Aerobic glycolysis in tamoxifen resistant breast cancer, A3 Foresight Program : miRNA analysis, Cilia assembly in ADPKD and Autophagy.

Research Interest: Pediatrics Pediatric hypertension Enuresis Pediatric nephrology Infectious disease Emergency Pediatrics Pediatric sleep disorders Evidence based medicine.

Research Interest: systemic vasculitis relapsing polychondritis psoriatic arthritis.

Research Interest: include Systemic Lupus Erythematosus-Lupus Nephritis small vessel vasculitis pauci-immune glomerulonephritis and new onset diabetes after renal transplantation besides low cost immunosuppression for poor patients in developing countries.

Research Interest: Paediatric nephrology Chronic kidney disease renal transplantation sleep disorder nephrotic syndrome.

Research Interest: Hepatitis Tuberculosis clinical transplant CKD epidemiology Glomerulonephritis.

Research Interest: Molecular basis of renal cell carcinoma in reference to telomerase and telomere and its binding factors biology therapeutic implications using microRNA Biochemistry and molecular Biology of  renal  transporter with reference to Zinc transporter under various patho-physiological conditions Molecular genetics of various genetic disorders Micro nutriuents interaction with heavy metals with special reference to cadmium  at renal level.

Research Interest: Human Immunology Antiviral Therapy Scientific Journal of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences Research in Molecular Medicine Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine.

Research Interest: Bone-Mineral Disorders in Chronic Kidney Disease Cardiovascular Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease Diabetic nephropathy Uric acid in Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease Hypertension Inflammation in Chronic Kidney Disease.

Research Interest: Glomerulonephritis Chronic kidney disease Lupus nephritis Vasculitis Peritoneal dialysis Hemodialysis Diabetic nephropathy Acute kidney injury Epidemiology.

Research Interest: nutrition dialysis renal osteoditrophy calcification transplantation end stage renal disease anemia.