James Calvet

Dr. Calvet joined the Department of Biochemisty and Molecular Biology and Cancer Biology at the KU Medical Center in 1981. He also served as the deputy director of the Jared Grantham Kidney Institute and was a member of the University of Kansas Cancer Center. In 2011, he was awarded the Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize, which is given by the International Society of Nephrology and the PKD Foundation to scientists who have increased understanding of polycystic kidney disease (PKD), leading to new treatments and the promise of a cure. Dr. Calvet's research is focused on polycystic kidney disease, and his lab was the first to show the abnormal expression of proto-oncogenes in polycystic kidneys.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health awarded a five-year Core Center Grant (P30) to Calvet and his colleagues at the Jared Grantham Kidney Institute at the university. The Kansas Polycystic Kidney Disease Research and Translation Core Center, which was formed as part of the NIH grant application process, is one of only four centers nationally to receive this type of PKD research funding from the NIH.  

Learn more about Dr. Calvet on the KU Medical Center website.