Dr. Joseph V Bonventre MD PHD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
75 Francis Street Brigham And Womens H Boston MA, 02115Rating
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About
Dr. Joseph Bonventre is a nephrologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Bonventre specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Bonventre most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Expression of the transcriptional repressor protein Kid-1 leads to the disintegration of the nucleolus.
- The 85-kD cytosolic phospholipase A2 knockout mouse: a new tool for physiology and cell biology.
- Leukocyte adhesion molecules in transplantation.
- Protection from toxicant-mediated renal injury in the rat with anti-CD54 antibody.
- Increased group IV cytosolic phospholipase A2 activity in lungs of sheep after smoke inhalation injury.
- Expression of NCAM recapitulates tubulogenic development in kidneys recovering from acute ischemia.
- Heat shock protein 70 and ATP as partners in cell homeostasis (Review).
- MEK1 protein kinase inhibition protects against damage resulting from focal cerebral ischemia.
- Characterization of the mouse Kid1 gene and identification of a highly related gene, Kid2.
- Characterization of a novel human serine protease that has extensive homology to bacterial heat shock endoprotease HtrA and is regulated by kidney ischemia.
- Transfection of constitutively active mitogen-activated protein/extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase confers tumorigenic and metastatic potentials to NIH3T3 cells.
- Gene 33/Mig-6, a transcriptionally inducible adapter protein that binds GTP-Cdc42 and activates SAPK/JNK. A potential marker transcript for chronic pathologic conditions, such as diabetic nephropathy. Possible role in the response to persistent stres
- Mxi2, a splice variant of p38 stress-activated kinase, is a distal nephron protein regulated with kidney ischemia.
- Evidence for genetic factors in the development and progression of IgA nephropathy.
- Phospholipases A2 in ischemic and toxic brain injury.
Awards
- Boston Super Doctors 2011
- Merit Award, NIDDK-NIH. 1993
- Association of American Physicians. 1993
- Who's Who in the World. 1989
- Who's Who in America:2000 American College 1988
- Emergency Physician:1987 Whos Who in the East. 1987
- American Society for Clinical Investigation 1987
- 1987-92 Established Investigator, Am Heart Assoc
- Who's Who in Frontier Science & Technology. 1984
- Plus additional other publications.
- Bywaters Award of International Society of Nephrology
Fellowships
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Fellow:Nephrology 1978
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Practice At 75 Francis Street Brigham And Womens Hospital Renal Division
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