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NURTuRE Showcase 2023: driving progress through collaboration
92 researchers, healthcare professionals, patients and members of the Kidney Research UK team met in London on 22 November for our first-ever NURTuRE Showcase. This event provided important updates on the next steps for the NURTuRE biobank, while also promoting new partnerships within the renal research community. Meeting the growing challenge of kidney disease through…

Celebrity support for The Book of Nuggets set to drive charity fundraising
Celebrities from the worlds of TV, film, sport, politics, literature, news and science have shared their wise words in a book raising funds for Kidney Research UK. The Book of Nuggets book launch. Image credit Matilda Baxendale-Kirby ‘Nuggets’ of wisdom Compiled by Juliet Solomon in memory and honour of her mother Lady Judith Solomon, The…

Do chemical changes to kidney DNA cause diabetic kidney disease?
Dr Abigail Lay from the University of Manchester has been awarded an Intermediate Fellowship grant of £235,000 to investigate whether chemical changes to DNA can cause diabetic kidney disease and medications which reverse these changes could be used as a novel treatment option. The problem Diabetic kidney disease is a growing global problem, occurring in…

Exploring rare kidney diseases: insights from the world’s largest registry – RaDaR
In a recent paper, published as a preprint (an academic paper that has been shared publicly but has not yet been published in a journal), a team of researchers led by Professor Danny Gale from University College London, have shown that people from different ethnic and social backgrounds seem to be represented fairly in the…

Kidney transplantation in older adults: new research highlights need for social support
Study results presented at the UK Kidney Week conference held in Newport, Wales on 3-5 June 2023, offer new insights into how we might improve the experiences of older patients with end stage kidney disease considering transplantation. A closer look at the views of older adults with end stage kidney disease As the number of…