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ISN GO poster session at WCN 2013: award winners announced

The ISN is happy to announce the winners of the Global Outreach (GO) poster session. Congratulations to all the winners who have made great contributions to nephrology  and ultimately helped improve kidney care worldwide. The ISN GO Fellowship prize went to Sidy Mohammed Seck (Senegal) and Boris Bikbov (Russia). The ISN GO Research and Prevention...

ISN GO poster session at WCN 2013: award winners announced

ISN is happy to announce the winners of the Global Outreach (GO) poster session. Congratulations to all the winners who have made great contributions to nephrology  and ultimately helped improve kidney care worldwide. The ISN GO Fellowship prize went to Sidy Mohammed Seck (Senegal) and Boris Bikbov (Russia). The ISN GO Research and Prevention prize...

Register for ISN Forefronts Florence before June 17, 2013

The beautiful city of Florence, Italy is the setting for this year’s Forefronts Symposium, taking place from September 12 to 15, 2013. It will bring together leading nephrologists and active investigators for four highly interactive days. This time around, Stem Cells and Regeneration in the Kidney has been chosen as the theme. Stem cells represent...

Register for ISN Forefronts Florence before June 17, 2013

The beautiful city of Florence, Italy is the setting for this year’s Forefronts Symposium, taking place from September 12 to 15, 2013. It will bring together leading nephrologists and active investigators for four highly interactive days. This time around, Stem Cells and Regeneration in the Kidney has been chosen as the theme. Stem cells represent...

WCN 2013 opens to bright colors and lights

On Friday, ISN President Prof. John Feehally and the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee, Prof. Philip Li, gave the World Congress 2013 attendees a warm welcome and fired the starting pistol to a world-class scientific program. This reflects ISN’s efforts to advance renal care in both the developed and the developing world and it...

WCN 2013 opens to bright colors and lights

On Friday, ISN President Prof. John Feehally and the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee, Prof. Philip Li, gave the World Congress 2013 attendees a warm welcome and fired the starting pistol to a worldclass scientific program. This reflects ISN’s efforts to advance renal care in both the developed and the developing world and it...

Do you know about the ISN Saving Young Lives Project?

Last year, the ISN joined forces with the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD), the International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) and Sustainable Kidney Care Foundation (SKCF) to develop a cooperative project in Africa and South East Asia. The Saving Young Lives (SYL) Project sets out to establish sustainable programs using acute Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) to...

Do you know about the ISN Saving Young Lives Project?

Last year, ISN joined forces with the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD), the International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) and Sustainable Kidney Care Foundation (SKCF) to develop a cooperative project in Africa and South East Asia. The Saving Young Lives (SYL) project sets out to establish sustainable programs using acute Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) to treat...

Meet KI editors at WCN 2013

Looking for some tips on how you can get your paper published in ISN’s official journal, Kidney International? Come by the ISN stand (booth D01) at the World Congress of Nephrology on Sunday June 2nd, 2013 between 11.00 am and 12.00 noon in the Hong Kong Convention Center Exhibition Hall. So far, we can confirm...

Meet KI editors at WCN 2013

Looking for some tips on how you can get your paper published in ISN’s official journal, Kidney International? Come by the ISN stand (booth D01) at the World Congress of Nephrology on Sunday June 2nd, 2013 between 11.00 am and 12.00 noon in the Hong Kong Convention Center Exhibition Hall. So far, we can confirm...

Live broadcast of three sessions at the World Congress of Nephrology in Hong Kong

ISN Education (now ISN Academy) will broadcast live three sessions of the World Congress of Nephrology under the theme Clinical Conditions Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease, taking place in Hong Kong from 31 May to 4 June 3013. Comment the congress live on Twitter: #WCNephrology The following sessions will be streamed: Cardiovascular disease and CKD – pathophysiology 1 June,...

Get published on ISN Education Global Outreach Postings

Last year, ISN started an important initiative as part of its overall ISN Education strategy: Global Outreach Postings.Find out more and send in your manuscipt! The aim of this initiative is to grant access to nephrologists from emerging countries to publish manuscripts that are in line with ISN’s mission and of interest to readers from...

Live broadcast of three sessions at the World Congress of Nephrology in Hong Kong

ISN Education will broadcast live three sessions of the World Congress of Nephrology under the theme Clinical Conditions Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease, taking place in Hong Kong from 31 May to 4 June 3013. The link to access the live broadcast will be active 30 minutes prior to the sessions Click here to watch the streaming Comment the...

European Chronic Disease Alliance: open letter to EU Commission President Barroso

The ISN, through its membership in EKHA (European Kidney Health Alliance), is supporting the European Chronic Disease Alliance's open letter to EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso calling for EU political action on chronic diseases. CLICK HERE to read the full letter. Learn more about the ISN's work in advocacy at EU level here.

WCN 2013 award winners

In the run-up to the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) 2013, ISN is delighted to exclusively share with you the winners of the ISN awards. The happy recipients will be awarded their prizes during the congress at the Hong Kong Convention Center. In the meantime, we wanted to let you know more about the winners...