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Enter our Summer raffle and you could be in with a chance to win £6,000 – as well 15 other cash prizes! The money raised goes to funding amazing new research into kidney disease.
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Sign up to take part in the London Bridges Walk and you can help bridge the gap between kidney disease and a cure.
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Healthy eating cookbook

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Kidney disease is a silent killer. There are three million people in the UK with it right now and there is no cure.

We are the leading charity committed to developing treatments, patient information and raising vital public awareness to help save lives. We are Kidney Research UK.

Current research

Using patient data to improve dialysis treatment in the UK

Dr James Fotheringham, was awarded a fellowship to analyse the performance of renal care services and associated health outcomes using anonymised patient data.

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London Bridges Walk

30 June 2019

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Prudential Ride 100

04 August 2019

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New drug compound could tackle major life-limiting kidney disease ADPKD

Scientists from the University of Sheffield and the USA are developing a new class of drugs to treat autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), which is a major cause of kidney failure.

21 June 2019 16:02:00

Kidney Research UK’s first charity golf day proves to be champion event

Golf day 2019 Woburn Abbey championship golf course has provided a stunning backdrop to Kidney Research UK’s first ever charity golf day.

20 June 2019 14:42:00

Kidney Research UK welcomes new organ donation fatwa

Donor_card_sml We’re welcoming the news that leading Muslim scholar Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt, has issued new guidance (a fatwa) on organ donation and transplantation.