Sixth Annual John P. Peters Award, American Society of Nephrology

John P. Peters and Nephrology.

John Punnett Peters, M.D., (18871955) can be said to have established the solid foundations ofmodem nephrology in an understanding of the chemistry of the body. The rebellious son of an Episcopal minister and noted Egyptologist, he was sent to a military preparatory school (Manlius) as a boy and then to Yale, where he majored in classics and won his varsity letter in diving. To earn money for h...

The moral dignity of John P. Peters.

John P. Peters Symposium. June 6, 1998.

American Society of Nephrology Presidential Address 2005.

“S cience is the most communal of endeavors,” wrote the late and eloquent Dr. Lewis Thomas, who was one of my esteemed professors at New York University Medical School in the 1960s. In a Foreign Affairs monograph, Dr. Thomas described how the building blocks of physics and biology in this century had been put together one piece at a time, by men and women whose identities have been forgotten. M...

American Society of Nephrology Renal Research Report.

In the spring of 2004, the Board of Advisors and the Council of the American Society of Nephrology believed it necessary to conduct a series of research retreats to steer priorities appropriately in an era of limited resources. In this regard, retreats were conducted by five working groups in areas that were identified to require distinct attention: acute renal failure, diabetic nephropathy, hy...