Rate My Professor Tianxin Yang

Tianxin Yang, MD/PhD, is Professor of Medicine with Tenure and the Dialysis Research Foundation Endowed Chair in the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He serves as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology and Senior Research Career Scientist at the VA Salt Lake Health Care System. Dr. Yang obtained his MD from Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in China, PhD in Renal Physiology from Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan, completed residency training at Peking Union Medical College, and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan. Before joining the University of Utah faculty in 2002, he held positions as Senior Staff Fellow and Staff Scientist at the National Institutes of Health. His laboratory investigates the molecular mechanisms of renal electrolyte and fluid metabolism and blood pressure control, emphasizing prostaglandins including COX-2 and mPGES-1-derived PGE2, the (pro)renin receptor and soluble (pro)renin receptor, and PPARγ signaling in the distal nephron and collecting duct. These efforts target hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and metabolic syndrome, utilizing conditional knockout models, radiotelemetry blood pressure monitoring, and translational approaches to develop novel therapies.