Dr. Hrishikesh Kulkarni (Principal Investigator) received a Discovery Award (Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program) from the Department of Defense for the period of 7/1/20 – 6/30/22. Along with Dr. Andrew Gelman (Cardiothoracic Surgery), they will study how activators of the complement cascade (such as pentraxin 3) increase the risk of acute lung injury (primary graft dysfunction) […]

Dr. Kulkarni has received an award from the Children’s Discovery Institute. His grant will be for $300,000 for 5 years. The title is “Harnessing the complement system to mitigate acute lung injury.”

Angel Lu, an undergraduate student in the lab, wins the prestigious Florence Moog Scholarship from Washington University. The award description can be found here.

Hrish Kulkarni, MD, MSCI has received a K08 from the NIH. His project title is C3 Mitigates Epithelial Injury in Pneumonia. The project period will be from 09/01/2019 to 08/31/2024.

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI, with his collaborating PI, has been awarded a $50,000/one year award for his research project through the SPIRiTfunding program. The SPIRiT (Sharing Partnership for Innovative Research in Translation) consortium is a partnership between Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) sites including: Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Washington University in […]

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI, an Instructor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine has received a Biomedical Research Award from the American Lung Association to investigate the role of complement protein C3 in severe pneumonia.

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, Instructor in Medicine, received admission to Washington University’s ICTS KL2 Career Development Program as a Clinical Research Scholar.