Benjamin Juliar

Dr. Benjamin Juliar is a senior research scientist in the Department of Medicine Division of Nephrology and Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He is also a member of the M. H. Mohseni Institute of Urologic Sciences where he is applying his multidisciplinary expertise toward building a robust nephrology research program for modeling immune-mediated kidney diseases. 

Dr. Juliar is a biomedical researcher whose work bridges tissue engineering, kidney disease modeling and biophysics including micro-vascular tissue engineering, drug screening, gene delivery and the mechanobiology of disease. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington and his PhD at the University of Michigan. 

His current research efforts focus on establishment of the foundation for a translational kidney research program that unifies clinical datasets, stem-cell models and regenerative bioengineering strategies to accelerate basic discovery and future therapeutic innovation across kidney disease.