Donald Dengel, Ph.D., professor of kinesiology,  and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP), will serve as a co-investigator for a University of Minnesota funded grant titled, “Novel Functional MRI of Reno-Cerebrovascular Endothelial Dysfunction with PCO2/PO2 Challenges in Chronic Kidney Disease.”

This grant proposes to use combine functional MRI methods with the active management of end-tidal PCO2/PO2 (partial pressure of carbon dioxide and oxygen), to study both reno-cerebral physiological functionality and vascular reactivity in the same chronic kidney disease patient. If successful, this method will provide clinicians with a non-invasive method to examine the kidney.