PROFESSIONAL POST 

Associate Professor

EDUCATION

School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taiwan (MD)

Faculty of Biology, University of Münster, Germany (PhD, Dr.rer.nat.)

RESEARCH INTEREST

1)     Role of vasoactive hormones for the function of podocytes (molecular biology, physiology)

2)     Cadmium intoxication and proteinuria (molecular biology, basic toxicology)

3)     Glomerular pathophysiology to hypertension and vasoactive hormones (molecular biology)

AWARD

Best Teaching Tutor in 2012, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHY

1)       Sun CY, Hsu HH, Wu MS*. P-Cresol sulfate and indoxyl sulfate induce similar cellular inflammatory gene expressions in cultured proximal renal tubular cells. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2013 Jan;28(1):70-8.

2)       Wennmann DO, Hsu HH, Pavenstädt H*. The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone system in podocytes. Semin Nephrol. 2012 Jul;32(4):377-84.

3)       Hsu HH, Hoffmann S, S. Di Marco G, Endlich N, Peter-Katalinić J, Weide T, Pavenstädt H*. Down-regulation of the antioxidant protein peroxiredoxin 2 contributes to angiotensin II-mediated podocyte apoptosis. Kidney Int. 2011 Nov;80(9):959-69.

4)       Tian D, Jacobo M, Billing D, Rozkalne A, Gage SD, Anagnostou T, Pavenstädt H, Hsu HH, Schlondorf H, ,Ramos T, Greka A*. Antagonistic regulation of actin dynamics and cell motility by TRPC5 and TRPC6 channels. Sci Signal. 2010 Oct;3(145):ra77.

5)       Hsu HH^＃, Duning K^＃, Meyer HH, Stölting M, Weide T, Kreusser S, van Le T, Gerard C, Telgmann R, Brand-Herrmann SM, Pavenstädt H*, Bek MJ*. Hypertension in mice lacking the CXCR3 chemokine receptor. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2009 Apr;296(4):F780-9.

6)       Hsu HH, Hoffmann S, Endlich N, Velic A, Schwab A, Weide T, Schlatter E, Pavenstädt H*. Mechanisms of angiotensin II signaling on cytoskeleton of podocytes. J Mol Med. 2008 Dec;86(12):1379-94.