A Wayne State University School of Medicine doctoral student secured a grant from the American Heart Association to present his research at a national conference.

Isaac Baiden, M.B.B.S., B.Sc., now in the third year of his studies as a doctoral student in the Department of Physiology, received a Council for Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease New Investigator Travel Award. The award helped defray costs to attend and present his research at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Sessions, conducted Sept. 5-8 in Chicago.

The award is presented to outstanding new investigators whose abstracts have been selected to present at the conference. Dr. Baiden presented “Loop Diuretic Resistance in a Preclinical Model of Cardiorenal Syndrome 2: Role of Enhanced Distal Convoluted Tubule Sodium Transport.”

Dr. Baiden works in the lab of Associate Professor of Physiology Pablo Ortiz, Ph.D., in the Hypertension and Vascular Research Division at Henry Ford Health. The lab’s research focus is renal physiology, molecular physiology of ion transport, salt-sensitive hypertension, and genomics of hypertension and new models of cardiovascular disease.  He is studying the renal mechanisms leading to decreased kidney function in cardiorenal syndrome type II and loop diuretic resistance.

After securing his doctoral degree, Dr. Baiden plans to become an independent physician/scientist in nephrology and cardiology, and to continue conducting research to advance the understanding of cardiorenal syndrome.