Shawn S. Badal
Director, Kidney Physiologist, Discovery Research Eli Lilly
Seminars
Tuesday 17th March 2026
Panel Discussion: Blue Sky Thinking: What is the Roadmap for Designing Next Generation Kidney Organoids that Better Recapitulate Kidney Function & CKD Pathology?
12:10 pm
- How can we generate functional data to assess the function of different cell types in kidney organoids
- How can we recapitulate filtration in kidney organoids and proximal tubules that are immature and don’t do transport
- How can we engineer cells so that function better resembles kidney function
Tuesday 17th March 2026
Decoding CKD Progression Through Biomarkers, Models & Emerging Mechanisms
11:00 am
- Leveraging validated biomarkers to accelerate preclinical target discovery and therapeutic decision making
- Using single-cell data to reveal how tubular, endothelial, inflammatory, and fibroblast cells drive disease
- Advancing in vivo models such as the db/db UNX renin AAV to explore incretin-based therapies for kidney health
