Dr. Enyin Lai is an associate professor of Nephrology at Georgetown. He joined Dr. Wilcox’s group as a post-doc in 2007. He was promoted to an assistant professor in 2008 and became an associate professor in 2012. He has been working with many basic and clinical projects through his career and on multiple projects supported nu the NIH. He isolated and perfused mouse afferent arterioles in the kidney and utilized both confocal and PTI systems to measure renal afferent arteriole’s diameter, ROS, NO, and calcium.

His research is focused on the redox regulation of myogenic responses and an adenosine and angioten II receptor in renal microvascular physiology. He has conducted both basic research and translation research with 35 papers published in peer-reviewed journals such as Circulation Research, Hypertension and Diabetes. He is an expert in mouse afferent arteriolar microperfusion, renal vascular physiology, and molecular cell physiology of vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells in chronic kidney diseases and hypertension. Last year he was appointed as a full Professor of Physiology at the University of Zhejiang University, Hongzhou, China, but spends three months each year as a faculty member in the Division of Nephrology at Georgetown.