Dr. Onur Cil is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. He received MD-PhD degree from Hacettepe University (Ankara/Turkey) and completed pediatrics residency training in the same institution. He joined UCSF initially as a research fellow, where he also completed pediatric nephrology fellowship training and established his lab as a faculty member. Cil Lab’s research focus is drug discovery and repurposing for treatment of renal, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, pulmonary and ocular diseases. Ultimate goal of our lab is advancing discoveries to clinical trials and establishing better and safer treatments. Our research focuses on membrane proteins including calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR), SLC26A3 (DRA), SLC26A4 (Pendrin), SLC26A6 (PAT1), CFTR, TMEM16A and urea transporters.