Topics and Expertise: kidney disease

Bioartificial Kidney: The Next Frontier in ESRD Treatment?

Thu Nov 5, 2015

Major funding for The Kidney Project from NIBIB Quantum Program

Tue Nov 3, 2015
The research journey toward building a fully functioning, surgically implantable artificial kidney as an alternative to kidney transplant and dialysis just took another step forward with the announcement of a $6 million grant to The Kidney Project, headquartered at the UCSF School of Pharmacy.

Bioartificial kidney addition wins LEGO robot design awards

Thu Apr 28, 2011
In fall 2010, a team of 8 school children won multiple awards in the Wisconsin regional and state FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) 2010 Body Forward™ Challenge, an international biomedical engineering competition involving a research project and robot games.