by PKD Foundation Staff | Jan 16, 2020 | Awareness, Q and A, Research
Published January 16, 2020 Kai He, Ph.D. | Mayo Clinic PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research? Kai: After my Ph.D. training in molecular cell biology and biochemistry, I started my postdoctoral research at Mayo Clinic studying the...
by PKD Foundation Staff | May 22, 2019 | Advocacy
On April 23, several of us from the PKD Foundation (PKDF) met with our colleagues from the National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in Bethesda, Maryland. NIDDK, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducts and supports...
by PKD Foundation Staff | May 2, 2019 | Awareness, Education
If you follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn), we hope you’ve already heard about our exciting new partnership with Discovery Communications / Discovery en Español. Knowing how important it is to share information about polycystic kidney...
by admin | Apr 9, 2019 | Awareness, Walk for PKD
My name is Lindsay Roper, I grew up in northern California and met my husband Alan while we were going to college in Utah. We married and moved to Orem, UT, where we live with our daughters Sadie (2 ½ years) and Lacey (3 months). As a mother of a child with a rare...
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...
