Bruce Julian
Dr. Bruce A. Julian
Professor Emeritus of Medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Honorary Lecture “Life time on IgAN” East Asia & West
Dr. Bruce A. Julian is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). His interest in the pathogenesis and clinical expression of IgAN started four decades ago. Discovery of a multiplex family with IgAN in private practice prompted a move to UAB in 1984 to begin a career as a clinician scientist. Collaborative studies with the UAB team and national and international investigators led to a more detailed understanding of the complex genetic influences on IgAN and a four-hit hypothesis for an autoimmune disease mechanism that serves as a blue-print for testing more disease-specific therapy. Dr. Julian’s IgAN publications include 159 papers and 15 book chapters. In 1986, he was one of the four founders of the IgA Nephropathy Club, forerunner of the International IgA Nephropathy Network. Since retirement from UAB in 2022, he continues to work at Reliant Glycosciences, to develop non-invasive biomarkers for IgAN.