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The Swiss Continence Foundation (SCF) Award is a prestigious recognition presented annually at the International Neuro-Urology Society (INUS) Congress. It honors outstanding early-career researchers (≤ 35 years old) whose work significantly advances the field of neuro-urology. At the 2025 INUS...

Mark Zeidel, Hanneke Verstegen, Chenxi Qiu and Nami Kim were invited to travel to Seoul, South Korea to present their research at the "International Joint Symposium of Harvard BIDMC-KUCM MRC”. Hosted by Professor Hyeon Soo Kim, Professor of the Department of Anatomy and Vice Dean for Academic...

Mark Zeidel and Warren Hill were part of a large team led by Dr. Gary Churchill at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor Maine that just published in Nature the results of a study that followed 970 genetically diverse mice over four years. The results showed that caloric restriction and intermittent...

Warren Hill and his collaborators have just published a paper in Physiological Reports describing the capabilities of a new machine learning program they call ML-UrineQuant. A simple and non-harmful way of looking at bladder function in mice involves placing them on filter paper for 4 hours and then...

A new review article from Hanneke Verstegen and collaborator, Cara Marshall synthesizes the complex pathways between the bladder, spinal cord and brain that control these decisions.

This years Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction (SUFU) Winter Meeting was held in sunny California at the Westin Rancho Mirage Golf Resort and Spa. Dr Sagar Barge presented his poster entitled; ‘Role of Insulin Signaling in Bladder Smooth Muscle Cell...

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are strongly associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes but the reasons remain unclear. Weiqun Yu and his post-doctoral fellow Dr. Zhaobo Luo (pictured) have just published intriguing data in the journal JCI Insight, demonstrating that the fat hormone adiponectin...

Once a year the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Dept. of Medicine hosts a distinguished visiting Professor of Medicine and has a dinner in their honor. Hosted at the Harvard Club, it brings together physicians, nurses, administrators and researchers to celebrate the Departments achievements and...

This intensive one week course in June at the beautifully situated Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory is titled "Origins of Renal Physiology for Medical Students". Sponsored by the American Society of Nephrology. The course is designed to engender an understanding of and appreciation for...

Entitled: Mapping mechanosensory circuits from the bladder to Barrington's nucleus Open positions for interested and motivated candidates Detecting sensations from within our bodies, a process called interoception, is critical to drive many physiological processes. Stretch signals from the bladder...