Newly elected members of the American Society of Clinical Investigation

Congratulations to the newly elected members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Dr. Nisha Bansal, associate professor (Nephrology) and Dr. Andrew Hsieh, associate professor (Medical Oncology).

For the 2022 membership nomination cycle, the Council considered 227 nominations and recommended 95 nominees for election.These new members come from 46 different institutions and represent excellence across the breadth of academic medicine.

Election to the ASCI is a milestone in the physician-scientist career path. The society is an honor society of physician-scientists, who translate findings in the laboratory to the advancement of clinical practice. 

Dr. Nisha Bansal is the director of Nephrology Clinical and Research Education and of the Kidney Heart Service at the University of Washington Medical Center, Montlake. She holds the Arthur Stach Family Endowed Professorship. The overall goal of her research program is to understand the epidemiology and pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease and hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease. Specifically she is interested in the development, diagnosis, consequences and treatment of heart failure and arrhythmias in patients with kidney disease.

Dr. Andrew Hsieh is a physician-scientist who balances the clinical care of prostate and bladder cancer patients with running a research laboratory at Fred Hutch. He studies how cells build proteins — and how cancer cells can co-opt this process to better grow and spread. Through these studies his team aims to develop new drugs that can selectively target these changes and ultimately impact the lives of patients with cancer.