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PKD Foundation attends Kidney Week 2019
Published November 21, 2019 Written by Elise Hoover, Director of Research The PKD Foundation (PKDF) has just returned from Kidney Week 2019 in Washington, D.C. The annual scientific meeting hosted by the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) ran Nov. 7–10. This is...
Researcher Spotlight: Daria Ilatovskaya, Ph.D.
Published November 5, 2019 PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research? Daria: As a graduate student, I worked on a project about the regulation of the ways that our kidneys process salt we consume. There is a certain protein — ENaC, or...
Researcher Spotlight: Yong Yu, Ph.D.
Published October 3, 2019 Researcher: Yong Yu, Ph.D. | St. John's University PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research? Yong: When I was working as a postdoc in Dr. Jian Yang’s lab at Columbia University, I was trying to crystallize...
Researcher Spotlight: John Shine, Ph.D.
Published September 26, 2019 Researcher: John Shine, Ph.D. | Garvan Institute, Australia PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research?John: My early work on cloning the insulin gene for treatment of diabetes led to a lifelong interest in...
Researcher Spotlight: Robin Maser, Ph.D.
Published September 13, 2019 Researcher: Robin Maser, Ph.D. | University of Kansas Medical Center PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research? Robin: During my postdoctoral training, which involved the study of small nuclear RNAs, my...
Moving toward new treatments for ADPKD
Written by guest contributor David A. Baron, Ph.D. Published September 10, 2019 Not long after I joined the PKD Foundation in 2015, I was made aware of an exciting news release from the Critical Path Institute (C-Path). They had formed the Polycystic Kidney Disease...
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Published November 21, 2019 Written by Elise Hoover, Director of Research The PKD Foundation (PKDF) has just returned from KidneyRead More -
Published November 5, 2019 PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research? Daria: As a graduateRead More -
Published October 3, 2019 Researcher: Yong Yu, Ph.D. | St. John’s University PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first getRead More -
Published September 26, 2019 Researcher: John Shine, Ph.D. | Garvan Institute, Australia PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first getRead More
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Published September 13, 2019 Researcher: Robin Maser, Ph.D. | University of Kansas Medical Center PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you firstRead More -
Written by guest contributor David A. Baron, Ph.D. Published September 10, 2019 Not long after I joined the PKD FoundationRead More
