Dr. Alpers is the former Interim Chair of the Department of Pathology, former director of the University of Washington Medicine Renal Pathology Service, and a UW professor of pathology and medicine. He is an expert in diagnostic and experimental renal pathology. Dr. Alpers’ clinical research has focused on growth factor molecules that control the expression of kidney diseases, on the kidney injury that occurs in patients with diabetes and on kidney injury that occurs in patients infected with Hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency viruses. His research lab utilizes model systems to identify mechanisms of diabetic renal injury and glomerulonephritis and to test therapies that can reverse these diseases.