Dr. Subash Somalanka

Clinical work involves seeing patients with glomerulonephritis, hypertension, diabetic nephropathy, AKI, various stages of CKD and offer pre-dialysis care in an MDT setting. Work up of patients for both living (related and unrelated) and deceased donor renal transplantation program. Manage renal transplant patients. In charge of a satellite haemodialysis program. Clinical Lead – Vascular Access. Providing – service and supervision of the nephrology trainees to insert the various types of dialysis catheters [tunnelled and non-tunnelled with and without fluoroscopic guidance under local anaesthesia] and perform percutaneous native/renal allograft biopsies. Providing a service for the insertion of peritoneal dialysis catheters under LA. Clinical Research interest – Principal and co-investigator in NIHR Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN) Portfolio studies Translational research and renal proximal tubule epithelial cell biology – Skilled in Lab techniques such as cell harvesting, culture and passage. protein extraction, western immunoblotting, cell transfection, real-time qPCR, in-vitro experimentation, pre-clinical studies, gene targetting with anti-sense oligonucleotides, renal immuno-histopathology. Show less

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