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Senescence and DNA damage in kidney disease progression
Penn PLM Research Day 2025 · October 2025

Dr. Wilson presented at the Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Day. Injured proximal tubule cells are found in healthy kidney and increase with aging and CKD. They carry more somatic copy number alterations, are the most likely to have lost the Y chromosome, and express the oncogene DCLK1, a candidate therapeutic target.