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This PKD Awareness Day, take action to end PKD. The PKD Cures Act is the first federal bill focused exclusively on advancing PKD research. Send a pre-drafted message to your Representative to help get this bill turned into law.

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Read the PKD Foundation’s 2025 Impact Report, highlighting the meaningful strides our community made over the past year in research, advocacy, education, and patient support and care.

First-ever PKD-specific federal legislation aims to advance the path toward new treatments and a cure for more than 500,000 Americans.

We fund research, advocate for patients, deliver education, and build a community for all impacted by PKD.

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The PKD Foundation is the only organization in the U.S. solely dedicated to finding treatments and a cure for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and improving the lives of those it affects.

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Since the establishment of the PKD Foundation in 1982 . . .

$1B+Leveraged in federal research funding	$30Min PKD Foundation research project funding
44+Years of giving hope	50+Local communities

2025 Impact Report

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