by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 28, 2019 | DIY for PKD
Our Fundraise Your Way program is one of the best ways you can help create a future without PKD. When you turn your hobbies or passions into creative fundraisers, 100% of the money you raise goes directly to fund PKD research. You can help give hope, like our friend...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 26, 2019 | Voices of PKD
My name is Kate Callahan and I’m a 21-year-old college student from the San Francisco Bay Area. My journey with PKD begins when I was seven years old. My father became increasingly ill with PKD and was told that he needed to go on kidney dialysis while waiting for a...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Advocacy
As Kidney Month starts winding down, keep up the momentum by raising your voice for PKD! Both the House and Senate will leave Washington, D.C. from April 15-26, 2019, and many will be back in their hometowns. Except for the Passover/Easter weekend (April 19-22), many...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 22, 2019 | Awareness, Education
For this week of National Kidney Month, our challenge to you was to tell someone new! Spreading the word is an empowering thing you can do for the community, no matter how PKD affects you. To show this, we asked our Marketing Specialist, Tierra Hogan, a non-patient,...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 19, 2019 | Research
There are some truly fascinating techniques in the research field being used to help increase our understanding of PKD. This week, our Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. David Baron, shares how the development of kidney organoids may help us get closer to new treatments:...