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Reflecting on my presentation at ASN Kidney Week 2025: A call to advance treatment options for children with kidney diseases

Anne Rohall, AKF's director public policy, shares her experience participating on the panel, "Upping Our Game: Advances in Clinical Trials for Pediatric Patients" at ASN Kidney Week 2025

Michael Spigler in front of a research poster at the ASN conference with blue text overlay, "AKF presents three posters on challenges and educational needs within the kidney community at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week 2025"

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AKF presents three posters on challenges and educational needs within the kidney community at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week 2025

AKF presents three posters at the 2025 American Society of Nephrology's annual meeting in Houston, Texas

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A bold vision: A world without kidney failure

The Transforming Kidney Health Research's roadmap to making this vision a reality

White hands putting pills into a pill sorter with blue text overlay, "Promising results in the effort to eliminate the need for immunosuppressant medicines for transplant recipients"

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Promising results in the effort to eliminate the need for immunosuppressant medicines for transplant recipients

Researchers testing a new therapy to prevent organ rejection without using immunosuppressants recently published promising results

Towana Looney preparing for surgery, sitting on a gurney with blue text overlay, "'Just a little plain country girl can change the world': Towana Looney helps break new ground as the longest-living person with a gene-edited pig kidney"

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'Just a little plain country girl can change the world': Towana Looney helps break new ground as the longest-living person with a gene-edited pig kidney

Towana Looney shares her experience receiving a gene-edited pig kidney

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Q&A with transplant nephrologist Dr. Silas Norman

In honor of Black History Month, we are celebrating our Dr. Silas Norman, who has worked throughout his career as a transplant nephrologist to advance health equity and advocate for improvements to health and quality of life for people living with kidney disease

Researcher in a lab with test tubes looking at a tablet with blue text overlay, "FDA greenlights first clinical trials for genetically modified pig kidney transplants in humans"

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FDA greenlights first clinical trials for genetically modified pig kidney transplants in humans

Two companies have received FDA approval to conduct clinical trials transplanting genetically modified pig kidneys into patients with kidney failure

Headshots of Dr. David Collister and Dr. Emily Christie with blue text overlay, "Gender versus sex and the kidneys: How does gender identity impact kidney health?"

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Gender versus sex and the kidneys: How does gender identity impact kidney health?

Researchers Dr. David Collister and Dr. Emily Christie provide an overview of their research on gender identity and kidney health

Screenshots of KAW speakers Dr. Robert A. Montgomery, Dr. Christine Limonte and Dr. William Fissell with blue text overlay, "Emerging Innovations in kidney disease research"

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Emerging innovations in kidney disease research: The Kidney Project, xenotransplantation and the Kidney Precision Medicine Project

A recap of the Emerging Innovations sessions of AKF's 2024 Kidney Action Week