Scientific Advisory Board

Michelle P. Winn, M.D. 
Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology
Assistant Research Professor in the Section of Medicine Genetics
Duke University Center for Human Genetics
DUMC Box 2903
Durham, NC 27710
Business:          (919) 684- 0735
Business Fax:   (919) 684- 0931
Email:               mwinn@chg.duhs.duke.edu

Dr. Michelle P. Winn is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology and an Assistant Research Professor in the Section of Medicine Genetics in the Department of Medicine at the Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Winn is also a board certified nephrologist. She was the principal investigator of a research team that discovered a gene responsible for FSGS. Dr. Winn, along with other authors, published their findings in May of 2005 in Science Express, the early online version of the journal Science.

After receiving her M.D. training at East Carolina University School of Medicine, she completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical School. She went on to complete her fellowship in Nephrology at Duke University Medical Center.

Her research interests include the hereditary diseases of the human kidney. She is currently focusing her research on FSGS. Her other interests include complex diseases in relation to kidney function such as hypertensive nephropathy, end-stage renal disease and acute renal failure.

Selected Publications:

Winn MP, Conlon PJ, Lynn KL, Farrington MK, Creazzo T, Hawkins AF, Daskalakis N, Kwan SY, Ebersviller S, Burchette JL, Pericak-Vance MA, Howell DN, Vance JM, Rosenberg PB. A Mutation in the TRPC6 Cation Channel Causes Familial Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. Science 2005 0: 1106215

Winn MP, Conlon PJ, Lynn KL, Howell DN, Gross DA, Rogala AR, Smith AH, Graham FL, Bembe M, Quarles LD, Pericak-Vance MA, Vance JM. Clinical and genetic heterogeneity in familial focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. International Collaborative Group for the Study of Familial Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. Kidney International 55(4):1241-6, 1999.

Winn MP, Conlon PJ, Lynn KL, Howell DN, Slotterbeck BD, Smith AH, Graham FL, Bembe M, Quarles LD, Pericak-Vance MA, Vance JM. Linkage of a gene causing familial focal segmental glomerulosclerosis to chromosome 11 and further evidence of genetic heterogeneity. Genomics 58(2):113-20, 1999.