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 | Dec 6, 2019 | Awareness, PKD Foundation News, Q and A, Research
Published December 6, 2019 A little over a month ago, Chris Rusconi joined PKD Foundation as its new Chief Research Officer. Over the past 30 days, Chris has been immersed in all things PKD from attending Kidney Week 2019 in Washington DC to the quarterly board...
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 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 22, 2019 | Q and A, Walk for PKD
Published October 22, 2019 A few weeks ago, Nicholas Yee and his nearly 100-person team attended the Sacramento Walk for PKD. We spoke with the “PKD, You Kidney Me?” Team Captain about his recent diagnosis and experience with the PKD Foundation’s Walk for PKD....
by PKD Foundation Staff | Oct 3, 2019 | Q and A, Research
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...
