In a new biomedical breakthrough, a team of researchers at The Kidney Project in San Francisco has just earned a $650,000 reward for developing an artificial kidney that’s worked in preclinical trials ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a four-year, $6 million grant to investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) to ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or having to take harsh drugs to suppress their immune ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or having to take harsh drugs to suppress their immune ...

With a failed kidney transplant now behind him, David Anderson has settled into a routine of regular dialysis and the limitations that go with it. "If you skip one of those sessions, generally ...

The device replicates many functions of healthy kidneys and patients using it will not require immunosuppression drugs. People with kidney failure can soon look forward to a future without dialysis or ...