Events

2026-27 Workshop Series

Fridays, 2 to 5 PM · Smilow Center for Translational Research, Room 12-146 · All are welcome.

The KIC Workshop Series is the meeting place of the Center. Every other Friday afternoon from October to May, one research program hosts an afternoon at the Smilow Center for Translational Research: three talks from Penn, CHOP and invited guests, followed by an open discussion in which anyone can bring a question, a dataset or an unsolved patient. Trainees present next to senior faculty. The series ends with the annual KIC Research Day in May.

All are welcome: faculty, fellows, students, staff and colleagues from other departments. No registration is needed. Fridays, 2 to 5 PM, Smilow Center for Translational Research, Room 12-146, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard.

Program 2026-27

Friday, October 2, 2026
Glomerulonephritis (GN)Rewriting the Future of Glomerular Disease · program
Friday, October 16, 2026
Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)Kidney Cancer: New Targets, New Hope · program
Friday, October 30, 2026
AI and Digital PathologyThe Intelligent Kidney: Pixels to Precision · program
Friday, November 13, 2026
Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM)Heart, Kidney and Metabolism: Connecting the Dots · program
Friday, December 11, 2026
GeneticsCracking the Kidney Code: Genes to Discovery · program
Friday, January 8, 2027
Kidney DevelopmentBuilding the Kidney: From Cells to Organs · program
Friday, January 22, 2027
ImmunologyImmunity in Focus: Decoding Kidney Inflammation · program
Friday, February 5, 2027
ProteomicsTitle to be announced · program
Friday, February 19, 2027
ImagingTitle to be announced · program
Friday, March 5, 2027
Clinical ResearchTitle to be announced · program
Friday, March 19, 2027
To be announcedTitle to be announced
Friday, April 2, 2027
TransplantationTitle to be announced · program
Friday, April 16, 2027
Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)Title to be announced · program
Friday, April 30, 2027
To be announcedTitle to be announced
Friday, May 14, 2027
KIC Annual Research DayPosters, talks and awards from across the Center

October 2, 2026: Rewriting the Future of Glomerular Disease

Friday, October 2, 2026, 2 to 5 PM · Smilow Center for Translational Research, Room 12-146

2:00 to 2:45 PM
Gaia Coppock, MD
FSGS overview and the clinical trial landscape
2:45 to 3:30 PM
Jonathan Levinsohn, MD, PhD
Pediatric and adult IgAN atlas
3:30 to 4:15 PM
Kirk Campbell, MD
Novel approaches to podocytopathies
4:15 to 5:00 PM
Open discussion