Dr. Rennke

	Department of Pathology
	Brigham and Women's Hospital
	A teaching Affliate of Harvard Medical School
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Name and Present Position:

HELMUT G. RENNKE, Chief, Renal Pathology

Address:

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA

Medical School (including school name, date and degree awarded):

1971 MD, University of Chile Medical School, Santiago, Chile

Graduate Medical Education (including dates and institution of internships, residencies, fellowships, etc.):

1970-1971 Rotating Internship, Hospital del Salvador, Santiago, Chile
1971-1972 Fellow in Pathology, University of Kiel, Germany
1972-1974 Resident in Pathology, Mallory Institute of Pathology, Boston, MA
1974-1977 Resident in Pathology, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA
1974-1977 Resident and Research Fellow, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital

Certification:

1980 American Board of Pathology (Anatomic Pathology)

Current Academic Appointment:

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT/Harvard Medical School

Current Medical Staff Appointment:

Chief, Renal Pathology
Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Consultant in Pathology, Boston Medical Center and Mallory Institute of Pathology

Selected Bibliography:

Vella JP, Magee C, Vos L, Womer K, Rennke H, Carpenter CB, Hancock W, Sayegh MH. Cellular and humoral mechanisms of vascularized allograft rejection induced by indirect recognition of donor MHC allopeptides. Transplantation 1999 67:1523-32
Laurinavicius A, Hurwitz S, Rennke HG. Collapsing glomerulopathy in HIV and non-HIV patients: A clinicopathological and follow-up study. Kidney Int 1999; 56: 2203-13.
Kaplan JM, H Kim S, North KN, Rennke H, A Correia L, Tong HQ, Mathis BJ, Rodriguez-Perez JC, Allen PG, Beggs AH, Pollak MR. Mutations in ACTN4, encoding alpha-actinin-4, cause familial focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Nature Genet 2000; 24:251-6.
Ziai F, Nagano H, Kusaka M, Coito AJ, Troy JL, Nadeau KC, Rennke HG, Tilney NL, Brenner BM, MacKenzie HS. Renal allograft protection with losartan in Fisher-->Lewis rats: hemodynamics, macrophages, and cytokines. Kidney Int 2000; 57:2618-25.
O'Bryan T, Weiher H, Rennke HG, Kren S, Hostetter TH. Course of renal injury in the Mpv17-deficient transgenic mouse. J Am Soc Nephrol 2000;11:1067-74
Thurberg BL, Rennke H, Colvin RB, Dikman S, Gordon RE, Collins AB, Desnick RJ, O'Callaghan M. Globotriaosylceramide accumulation in the Fabry kidney is cleared from multiple cell types after enzyme replacement therapy. Kidney Int 2002; 62:1933-1946.