by PKD Foundation Staff | Feb 4, 2020 | Awareness, Education, Q and A, Research
Published February 4, 2020 Adrian Salic, Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research? Adrian: My lab has had a longstanding interest in studying signaling processes that take place in the primary cilium, a...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Jan 7, 2020 | Advocacy, Awareness, Education, Positivity, Q and A
Published January 7, 2020 You might say that Lisa Baxter is a woman on a mission. She is an author, actress, advocate, documentarian, volunteer, social worker, and health ambassador. Lisa is always on the lookout for new ways to educate dialysis and PKD patients,...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Nov 26, 2019 | Awareness, Education, Q and A, Research
Published November 25, 2019 Paul DeCaen, Ph.D. | Northwestern University PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research? Paul: I got involved late, but the timing couldn’t have been better. My training was directed towards studying the molecular...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Nov 14, 2019 | Education, Staying Healthy
Published November 14, 2019 Written by guest contributor Rebecca Banning The holidays can be a difficult time to maintain a healthy diet for anyone, especially those with PKD. From mashed potatoes to pumpkin pie, there are endless temptations during the holiday...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Nov 5, 2019 | ARPKD, Education, Q and A, Research
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...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Oct 15, 2019 | Awareness, Education
Published October 15, 2019 Today is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. This is a day of support, awareness, and education in honor of those who have suffered a miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, still birth, or loss of an infant. On this day of...
