Richard J. Quigg

Arthur M. Morris Professor and Chief, Division of
Department of Medicine
Buffalo VA Medical Center
United States of America

Academician Nephrology
Biography

Richard J. Quigg serve as attending physician on the renal consult services for UBMD Nephrology at Buffalo General Medical Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Erie County Medical Center (ECMC). I am also an attending physician on the inpatient Medicine A (General Medicine) and D (Renal Medicine) services at ECMC. Professor of Medicine, Medicine, University at Buffalo (2013-present). Education and Training: Fellowship, Nephrology, Boston University Medical Center (1988); Residency, Internal Medicine, University Hospital, SUNY-Stony Brook (1984); MD, Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine (1981); BA, Medical Sciences, Mathematics Minor, Boston University, Summa cum laude (1981). Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, University of Chicago, The University of Chicago (2013-present). Adjunct Professor of Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (2013-present). `He also am interested in computational biology and founded the Computation Biology Core Facility at the University of Chicago. Presentations: "Complexities of Medical Decision Making: Will the Medical Tricorders of Star Trek's Dr. McCoy be in Routine Use ... Before 2166?" City Wide Medical Grand Rounds (2016). "Is Clinical Reasoning Logical?" Biomedical Informatics Grand Rounds (2016); "The renal cortical wide interstitium – so valuable and hard-working, yet so underappreciated" Visiting Professor, Columbia University (2015).

Research Intrest

Bioinformatics; Nephrology

List of Publications
Martin M, Leffler J, Smoląg KI, Mytych J, Björk A, Chaves LD, Alexander JJ, Quigg RJ, Blom AM. Factor H uptake regulates intracellular C3 activation during apoptosis and decreases the inflammatory potential of nucleosomes. Cell death and differentiation. 2016 May;23(5):903-11.
Zhu J, Chaki M, Lu D, Ren C, Wang SS, Rauhauser A, Li B, Zimmerman S, Jun B, Du Y, Vadnagara K. Loss of diacylglycerol kinase epsilon in mice causes endothelial distress and impairs glomerular Cox-2 and PGE 2 production. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology. 2016 May 1;310(9):F895-908.
Mahajan SD, Tutino VM, Redae Y, Meng H, Siddiqui A, Woodruff TM, Jarvis JN, Hennon T, Schwartz S, Quigg RJ, Alexander JJ. C5a induces caspase‐dependent apoptosis in brain vascular endothelial cells in experimental lupus. Immunology. 2016 Aug 1;148(4):407-19.