Craig Langman

Children's Memorial Hospital, United States of America

Craig Langman

Academic positions:
- Head, Kidney Diseases (Nephrology), Children's Memorial Hospital
- Isaac A. Abt, MD, Professor of Kidney Diseases, Children's Memorial Hospital
- Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine

All industry positions (in last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr. Craig Langman's entire career has been devoted to the study of genetic diseases of children that produce metabolic bone disease, kidney stones, or other subtle forms of kidney disease. Currently:
- They are interested in genetic and acquired bone diseases of infants, children, and adolescents, and the effects of bone-specific therapy for them.
- They are interested in the osteodystrophy of chronic kidney disease, as a systemic disorder of bone and the vasculature.
- They are interested in kidney stone diseases, including the primary hyperoxalurias, Dent's disease, and disorders of the extracellular calcium-sensing receptor.
- They serve as a resource for measurement of bone and mineral homeostatic factors and agents, such as FGF-23, OPG, RANKL, TGF-β, inflammatory cytokines, and others.

Any other information:
Dr. Langman serves nationally as the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Oxalsois and Hyperoxaluria, a genetic disease that results from mutations in a specific liver-localized enzyme; serve on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Children's Brittle Bone Foundation, related to osteogenesis imperfecta, an inherited disease of bone related to collagen gene mutations, and on NIH panels related to kidney tubulopathies in addition to the diseases above.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology > Bone Biology, Osteoporosis & Other Diseases of Bone (since 05 July 2007)

Links

http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/bone/researchers/langman.htm

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  Pretransplant serum vitamin D levels and risk of cancer after renal transplantation.
  Recommended by Craig Langman with Farah N Ali
  
• 6.0
  CRHR1 polymorphisms predict bone density in survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
  Recommended by Craig Langman with Kimberley Dilley
  
• 6.0
  Urine NGAL Predicts Severity of Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Study.
  Recommended by Craig Langman with Farah N Ali
  
• 6.0
  Renoprotective role of the vitamin D receptor in diabetic nephropathy.
  Recommended by Craig Langman