{"id":2247,"date":"2017-10-19T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/kidsmatter\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2017-10-19T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:40:56","slug":"dr-ariel-gomez-receives-a-distinguished-alumni-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/kidsmatter\/dr-ariel-gomez-receives-a-distinguished-alumni-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ariel Gomez Receives a Distinguished Alumni Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHRC director, Dr. R. Ariel Gomez was recently award the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement by the University of Iowa Carver College Medical Alumni Association. The award was established in 1998 as the highest honor bestowed upon graduates of the institution. The Alumni Award for Achievement in particular is given to a deserving candidate who exhibits \u201csignificant professional accomplishments in science, medicine and\/or education\u201d. Below is the biography included on their website detailing the remarkable contributions Dr. Gomez has made to the medical community:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>R. Ariel Gomez<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u201983 Fellowship \u2013 Pediatric Nephrology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A tenacious investigator whose research has been continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1988, Dr. R. Ariel Gomez continues to make fundamental contributions to the understanding of the origin, identity, and fate of kidney renin cells. He showed that renin cells are progenitor cells that appear early in life and are necessary for kidney development. Descendants from those progenitors retain the memory to make renin once again when well-being is threatened. Dr. Gomez identified the genes and epigenetic events that control the identity and plasticity of renin cells. Most recently, his group discovered a novel renin progenitor in the bone marrow, a primitive lymphocyte that links the immune and endocrine systems and it is the cell of origin of a highly penetrant type of leukemia. Through his research, Dr. Gomez hopes to develop treatments for hypertension and kidney and vascular diseases. He began his career in the Pediatrics Department at The University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1984 and held multiple leadership positions at the school before returning to full time research in 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare.uiowa.edu\/alumni\/awards\/current.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>UI Carver College 2017 Alumni Awards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/kidsmatter\/files\/2017\/06\/Gomez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2248\" src=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/kidsmatter\/files\/2017\/06\/Gomez-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/kidsmatter\/files\/2017\/06\/Gomez-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/kidsmatter\/files\/2017\/06\/Gomez.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRC director, Dr. R. Ariel Gomez was recently award the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement by the University of Iowa Carver College Medical Alumni Association. The award was established in 1998 as the highest honor bestowed upon graduates of the institution. The Alumni Award for Achievement in particular is given to a deserving candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-rg"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Ariel Gomez Receives a Distinguished Alumni Award - Monthly Matters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/kidsmatter\/dr-ariel-gomez-receives-a-distinguished-alumni-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Ariel Gomez Receives a Distinguished Alumni Award - Monthly Matters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CHRC director, Dr. R. 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