Gisele Vajgel Fernandes

Kidney doctor; PhD at LIKA/UFPE (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil); visiting clinical researcher at the Royal Free Hospital, University College London; coordinator of Nephrology residency program at UFPE/Brazil. I am interested in studying primary and secondary glomerulonephritis. My research focuses on ways of improving patient outcomes in systemic autoimmune diseases(SLE). My PhD research has outlined the impact of APOL1 renal risk variants on advanced lupus nephritis in Brazilians.