Prof. Dr. Rujun Gong, MD, PhD, FASN, is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of Kidney Research in the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, at the University of Toledo College of Medicine or Medical College of Ohio (MCO). Administratively, he serves as Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine. He also holds joint professorship at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. Prior to joining the University of Toledo College of Medicine in 2018, he was Associate Professor of Medicine and the founding Director of Kidney Research at Brown University School of Medicine and Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. His research interests center on pathogenesis and novel therapies in glomerular diseases, in particular, podocytopathies and nephrotic syndrome and glomerulopathies and pathogenic mechanisms of renal fibrogenesis and inflammation. He has been very active and productive with regard to book chapters and patents and has had over 90 scientific papers published in high-impact journals, including Nature Reviews Nephrology, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, American Journal of Transplantation, American Journal of Kidney Disease, Journal of Pathology, etc. He was awarded the Young Investigator Award in 2011 by the Chinese American Society of Nephrology. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN) and is the current Treasurer for the Chinese American Society of Nephrology.