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hitchhiker ([personal profile] hitchhiker) wrote2019-08-01 04:09 pm

the kidney project

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney

The Kidney Project is a national research project with a goal to create a small, surgically implanted, and free-standing bioartificial kidney to treat end stage renal disease (ESRD).

The bioartificial kidney will give ESRD patients new hope beyond the short-term solution of renal dialysis and the longer-term, but impermanent, solution of a living kidney transplant for which donor organs are limited.

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We expect to arrive at this final stage of clinical trials by late 2021. This scenario assumes that we have sufficient funding and no unanticipated scientific, technical, or regulatory drawbacks.
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2019-08-02 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
this is wonderful!
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[personal profile] cjsmith 2019-08-02 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Love this. Been following it since I first learned of it (during vet school), and there's been amazing progress just in that amount of time.
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[personal profile] lcohen 2019-08-02 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
this is amazing!