Tamer A. Aboushwareb, MD, PhD

Tamer Aboushwareb, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor 

Dr. Aboushwareb was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. He received his medical degree from Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1994; he subsequently did his clinical rotation and urology residency in the same department. He was then appointed as an assistant lecturer of urology in 2001. He moved to the institute for regenerative medicine in 2004 where he did a 2 year fellowship, and a 1 year post-doc before he was appointed as an instructor in 2007. He was promoted to assistant professor in 2010.

SYNOPSIS OF AREA OF INTEREST: Dr. Aboushwareb research interest in focused on the area of urologic tissue engineering including the urethra, bladder and kidney.

DETAILED AREA OF INTEREST: End stage renal disease is a devastating clinical condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Extensive research is being done everywhere to discover new modalities of treatment for ESRD both in the pharmacological as well as the biological arenas. Current treatments for renal failure are mainly limited to either dialysis or renal transplantation with no definitive treatment otherwise. The field of regenerative medicine offers new frontiers that may prove very beneficial for those patients. At the Wake Forest institute for regenerative medicine, these venues are being explored in an extensive, collaborative renal regeneration program. Cell therapy approaches are being explored for total as well as selective management of end stage renal disease and some of it’s well known complications. Within this program, multiple mechanisms of regulation of cell function are being studied in an effort to harvest the full potential of these cells in regenerating the diseased kidneys.