The ISN has submitted a joint statement alongside its partners in the Global Coalition for Circulatory Health (GCCH) to the EU-led stakeholder consultation on strengthening WHO preparedness for and response to health emergencies. The resulting draft resolution, to be debated at the 74th World Health Assembly, aims to increase efforts to build and strengthen WHO mechanisms...
To illustrate the ISN-ACT Clinical Trials Toolkit’s usability and facilitate understanding of important clinical trial methodologies, ISN-ACT Clinical Trials Toolkit subgroup members are developing a series of stories based on various toolkit topics. The first of these narratives, by Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos and Brendan Smyth, outlines trial randomization methods through a fictional clinical...
The Partnership for Health System Sustainability Resilience (PHSSR), founded by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the London School of Economics, and AstraZeneca, is holding a summit from March 15-19, 2021. Register for the summit here. The summit on health system resilience and sustainability features a talk from ISN President Prof Vivek Jha on key recommendations for...
The Spanish Society of Nephrology (SENEFRO) joined the ISN as a Collective-Member Society over a decade ago. Spain is currently active in two ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers in collaboration with the University of Barcelona and has hosted 17 ISN Fellows from seven different countries over the last ten years. In 2020, the ISN and SENEFRO held...
The deadline to apply for an ISN Interventional Nephrology (IN) Scholarship is April 1, 2021. Read the application guidelines here. The current process is for scholars to undertake training at an ISN-recognized Interventional Nephrology Training Center from July 2021 to February 2022. These centers were selected on their capacity to provide training in: Non-tunneled CVC placement Tunneled...
The ISN-KI Early-career Researcher Award recognizes outstanding research in basic and clinical science published in Kidney International (KI) in 2019 and 2020. The winners are: Basic science Sho Hasegawa (Japan) Comprehensive three-dimensional analysis (CUBIC-kidney) visualizes abnormal renal sympathetic nerves after ischemia/reperfusion injury Qi Cao (Australia) Regulatory innate lymphoid cells suppress innate immunity and reduce renal ischemia/reperfusion injury Clinical science Madhav C. Menon (USA) Genome-wide...
As part of its work to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people living with kidney disease, ISN is collaborating with the DOPPS Programme, at Arbor Research Collaborative for Health. The original DOPPS COVID-19 survey has been adapted to be relevant to high- middle- and low-income countries. We want to hear about real-world experiences of healthcare...
The Partnership for Health System Sustainability Resilience (PHSSR), founded by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the London School of Economics, and AstraZeneca, is holding a summit from March 15-19 2021. Registration details to follow shortly. “Improving the effectiveness of care” will bring together academia and the public and private sectors to share insights from nine months...
The ISN Fellowship Program provides funding to young nephrologists from low and middle-income countries to receive hands-on training in advanced host institutions abroad. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2021. Apply for an ISN Fellowship grant here. Applicants should provide a detailed training plan to help the ISN Fellowship Committee ascertain a match between the...
From 2016 – 2018, Clinical Research Program Grant Recipient, Alao Michael Abel from Nigeria, undertook a research project to determine the community-based prevalence of CKD using cystatin C-based eGFR of the pediatric population in Ogbomoso, Southwest Nigeria. Watch the video here. Proposals for the ISN Clinical Research Program must be submitted to an ISN Regional Coordinator for...
Register before March 31, 2021, and receive a preferential fee: Friends@WCN ISN, Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN), and Société Québécoise de Néphrologie (SQN) members can register as a group of at least five people and benefit from a 20% reduction on their registration fee. Find out more here. Team-up@WCN Enjoy Virtual WCN’21 as a group alongside your...
This year’s edition of the ISN Community Film Event received more than 30 films from 20 different countries. The ISN warmly invites you to watch these personal and powerful accounts that help raise awareness of living with kidney diseases. Voting for the winner opens on World Kidney Day, March 11, 2021. An ISN Jury will select...
Following the success of its first webinar in 2020, the ISN Middle East Regional Board held its second webinar on January 21, "Epidemiology and Management of Glomerulonephritides – Middle-East Perspective." Watch a recording of this webinar here. The webinar, introduced by Dr. Shahrdzad Ossareh, ISN Middle East Regional Board Chair, discussed: Epidemiology of glomerulonephritides in the Middle...
ISN voting members have 3 days left to vote for the next ISN President-Elect and Regional Board Deputy Chair / Council member in their ISN region. I strongly encourage all voting members to participate in this important process for the ISN. To vote, login to your MYISN account at www.theisn.org (preferred browser Chrome), click on the...
Kidney International has published the KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for management of blood pressure (BP) in chronic kidney disease (CKD), which replaces the 2004 Kidney Disease Quality Outcomes Initiative document on the same topic. This new guideline is designed to help physicians in their clinical decision-making for patients with CKD who are not receiving dialysis. The...
The second in the ISN ‘Spotlight Session,’ ISN Research Spotlight: How we bridge gaps, build capacity, and connect communities, will take place on March 2, 2021, at 3 p.m. CET. Register here. Join a panel of ISN members dedicated to advancing kidney health research to explore the challenges, opportunities, and global impact of ISN research initiatives....
The World Kidney Day 2021 position paper, “Towards patient-centered care for people living with kidney disease,” presents top-line evidence, context, and call-to-actions for anyone advocating for patient-centered kidney care and decision-making. Central to the paper is the conviction that kidney care at all levels, policy, research, and management, is most effective when developed in partnership with patients...
“Water intake and progression of chronic kidney disease: the CKD-REIN cohort study” by ISN Hydration For Kidney Health (ISN-H4KH) Research Grant awardee, Sandra Wagner, was published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation on February 12, 2021. Read the full article here. Sandra Wagner et al. investigated the relationship between water intake and kidney failure progression in CKD patients...
World Kidney Day 2021: Living well with kidney disease will be broadcast at two different time slots on World Kidney Day (WKD), March 11, 2021: 11 March, 11 a.m. CET and 10 p.m. CET. Use a time zone converter to select a session. Register here. The webinar, featuring prominent figures in kidney health, will bring together the WKD...
Dr. Sanjib Sharma and his team at one of several events involving healthcare workers, politicians, and patients to educate and raise awareness of the KCN in Nepal In 2013, the ISN launched the 0by25 Initiative to eliminate preventable deaths from AKI worldwide by 2025. The burden and management of AKI worldwide were initially assessed through an...
