Georgina Gyarmati is assistant professor at the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California. She received her MD (2003) and PhD (2023) degrees from the Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary, her MPH (2017) degree from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US. She completed her cardiology and internal medicine residency at the Semmelweis University and her postdoctoral training in renal physiology at the University of Southern California. She joined the faculty at USC Keck School of Medicine in 2022. Dr. Gyarmati has a strong interest in the therapeutic translation of renal and cardiovascular pathological mechanisms and cell and molecular targets. Her current research focuses on the characterization and human and preclinical therapeutic translation of a new vascular cell type that she discovered recently and named neuro-endothelial cell (NEC). Specifically, she is exploring vasodilatory, angiogenic and anti-inflammatory functions of NECs that may be therapeutically targeted for vascular and inflammatory diseases. Dr Gyarmati received the prestigious Carl W. Gottschalk Transition to Independence Award from the American Society of Nephrology this year. Dr. Gyarmati is member of the American Physiological Society Renal Section, American Society of Nephrology, and the American Heart Association. She serves as the chair-elect of the AHA Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease Council Communication Committee, and as an editorial fellow of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).