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Why I want to make this film for my dad

Why I want to make this film for my dad 06 January 2022 Last month we shared the news that former BBC producer Andrew Smith and his family were on a mission to make a thought-provoking film about organ donation, after his successful kidney transplant. Now Andrew’s daughter Camille, the film’s producer is centre stage. She shares…

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One family’s transplant journey in extraordinary times

One family’s transplant journey in extraordinary times 26 January 2021 David Prosser, our vice chair of trustees, describes his family’s run up to his second kidney transplant as: “like pushing a wheelbarrow full of bricks uphill with butter on our boots.” A month post-surgery, however, he is recovering well and proud of his whole family. Two daughters, Rachel and Lucy, were both a close donor match for him and solved the dilemma of who would step forward by flipping a coin. Lucy ‘won’ and, delighted at seeing…

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A new lease of life thanks to a life-saving transplant operation

A new lease of life thanks to a life-saving transplant operation 17 February 2020 A Cambridgeshire footballer, with a new lease of life thanks to a life-saving transplant operation, is running a half marathon to raise funds into kidney disease treatment research. Ben Baylis, 55, was down to just five per cent kidney function and…

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Normothermic perfusion

Changing the way we transplant kidneys with normothermic perfusion Over £850,000 in funding from Kidney Research UK has enabled Professor Mike Nicholson to develop and test a new technique to revolutionise the way kidney transplant operations are done. The first project to be funded through our Making Every Kidney Count Appeal is being led by…

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Impact of Kidney Research UK: a patient writes

Impact of Kidney Research UK: a patient writes by David Prosser – Kidney Research UK trustee 25 October 2018 David is a transplant patient and a trustee at Kidney Research UK. A Chartered Accountant by training, in 2013 David left the City after a career of 32 years at PwC, where he was a Senior…

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Kayleigh, the stranger who gave me my life back

Kayleigh, the stranger who gave me my life back by Louise Sach, transplant recipient from living donor 25 June 2018 This is me, Louise Sach, shortly after I was diagnosed with chronic renal failure. I was age eight when my parents were told that both my kidneys were only working at around 40%, both small,…

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Every down has an up – view from a teenage kidney patient

Every down has an up – view from a teenage kidney patient by Grace Acklam 04 May 2018 Disease. A word that sends shivers down spines, and forms lumps in people’s throats. A word associated with the likes of the Black Plague and Polio. A word that is avoided and is desperately hidden from. A…

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My kidney heroines – where do I start? 

My kidney heroines – where do I start?  by Sarah Harwood – Patient Involvement Co-ordinator 22 February 2018 This World Kidney Day, Kidney Research UK is celebrating all the women and girls who are fighting kidney disease in their own way. We are getting people to post the stories of their kidney heroines (#mykidneyheroine). So I…

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Stacy Rowe – celebrating her kidney-versary

Stacy Rowe – celebrating her kidney-versary by Stacy Rowe 05 January 2018 Stacy Rowe is a transplant patient and a member of our Lay Advisory Committee (add link). She’s been sharing her kidney journey with us over the past few years. January 2018 “I write this as a brand new being – and feeling like…

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