At a meeting held in December 2019 in Delhi, India, between the ISN President and Executive Director, and the Indian Society of Nephrology Governing Body, ISN and the Indian SN agreed to extend and formalize their existing partnership to include collaboration on all ISN programs and activities, demonstrating their mutual commitment to the advancement...
ISN Kidney Health Professionals Working Group (KHP WG) members Rachel Walker and Paul Bennett submitted a paper that has been published as an editorial letter in the Renal Society of Australasia Journal 2020. The KHP WG is a comprehensive and complementary nursing and allied health professional group formed by ISN in 2017 to address the gap in the non-nephrologist...
To celebrate World Kidney Day (WKD), the ISN dressed the Manneken Pis fountain in Brussels in WKD colors to raise awareness of kidney health issues and activities. The ISN team explained to onlookers the significance of the costume as it was unveiled, encouraging the public to use #worldkidneyday to accompany photographs taken of the WKD Mannekin Pis. The ceremony was...
“High water intake and low urine osmolality are associated with favorable metabolic profile at a population level: low vasopressin secretion as a possible explanation” by ISN Hydration For Kidney Health (ISN-H4KH) Research Grant awardee, Sofia Enhörning, was published in the European Journal of Nutrition in February. Sofia Enhörning et al, investigated if low total water intake or high...
The International Society of Nephrology, in collaboration with the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, will hold the ISN 2020 Frontiers Meeting on ‘Complement-related kidney diseases: classification, genetics, and treatment’ from October 1-3, in Bergamo, Italy. This specialist meeting will focus on the two prototypical complement-mediated kidney diseases: atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), and C3 Glomerulopathies/Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (C3G/MPGN),...
Prof. Philip KT Li Honorary Professor of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong and President of Hong Kong College of Physicians, and represents ISN on the WKD Joint Steering Committee Dr. Guillermo García García Research Professor, University of Guadalajara Health Sciences Center, and Director of Nephrology, Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Mexico, and represents IFKF on the WKD...
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a newly discovered contagious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus, primarily manifesting as an acute respiratory illness with interstitial and alveolar pneumonia, but can affect multiple organs such as kidney, heart, digestive tract, blood and nervous system. The rapidly spreading outbreak which first emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province in China...
After graduation, ISN Sister Renal Centers or ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers partnerships can opt to support a third emerging center within the region through the ISN SRC Trio Program. Three recently graduated Trio partnerships demonstrate the valuable impact these collaborations can have on local nephrology capacity. Emerging Institution: Nephrology Institute, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou (NIZU), China; Supporting Institution: Institute of Nephrology, Peking...
As part of the Saving Young Lives (SYL) project, 17 doctor-nurse pairs from eight countries across Africa received a week-long training in Acute Peritoneal Dialysis during the SYL Renal Skills Course at Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, from February 17 to 21, 2020. The course directors, Red Cross’s Mignon McCulloch and Alp Numanoglu,...
The fifteenth edition of World Kidney Day takes place on Thursday, March 12, 2020. This global campaign highlights the importance of kidneys to overall health and raises awareness of risk factors to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems. The 2020 campaign focuses on preventive interventions to avoid the onset and progression of kidney...
The deadline for the next round of Fellowship applications is May 1, 2020. The ISN Fellowship Program offers nephrology training to physicians from low-resource countries and provides a valuable opportunity to grow professionally and to improve kidney healthcare in emerging countries by becoming established leaders in the field. A recent article outlines the significant results that are attainable through the...
The ISN is pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Schrier Award, which recognizes the most deserving partnership from recently graduated ISN Sister Renal Centers (SRC) Program and ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program pairs. The ISN Sister Renal Centers Program chair and deputy chair, the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program co-chairs, and the ISN Programs chair...
Celebrating ISN’s 60th anniversary, Kidney International’s “Milestones in Nephrology” series continues with a review of some of the original articles it has published on the treatment of glomerular disease, publications that helped make significant changes in patient management: Shorter term corticosteroids are equally effective as longer term in primary nephrotic syndrome in children (Yoshikawa N, Nakanishi K, Sako...
SUPPORT A NEW FELLOWSHIP The ISN is pleased to announce a new Fellowship in honor of Dr. Ravindra Mehta, the Ravi Mehta AKI Fellowship. The fund has been set up in collaboration with Ravi Mehta’s friends and colleagues in recognition of his leadership and to honor his contribution to global health and education. The ISN invites you to make...
In March, 91 global leaders in nephrology, other renal healthcare workers and healthcare policymakers met at the second Global Kidney Health Summit in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, to develop a strategy to address the unmet needs of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) around the world over the next 5 to 10 years. ‘We need...
All are warmly invited to join ISN at the Mannekin Pis, a public fountain statue and well-loved icon in the heart of Brussels, at 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, 2020, as part of ISN’s WKD campaign. Mannekin Pis will dress up in World Kidney Day colors to grab the attention of passers-by at this...
The Lilian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) will now be awarded annually. ISN is grateful to Thomas Kaplan and the Recanati-Kaplan Foundation for their generosity in making this possible. The Lillian Jean Kaplan Prize recognizes individuals exhibiting excellence and leadership in PKD clinical or basic research that improves...
Kidney International Supplements (KIS) has published a set of papers describing the background, rationale, and action plans for developing a strategic approach to increase access to integrated end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) care worldwide over the next decade. Read this special edition here. Following March 2018's second Global Kidney Health Summit organised by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), the primary...
The ISN Advancing Clinical Trials Toolkit is designed to assist in carrying out meaningful and robust clinical trials, or to become involved as a trial site, with the primary intention of improving patient care. Available online for the first time at the ISN World Congress of Nephrology (WCN), Congress delegates are invited to experience the...
ISN’s two Sister Centers Programs (SRC and ISN-TTS STC) link emerging renal and transplant centers with centers of excellence for long-term partnerships. The educational guidance provided by the supporting center over a six-year period aims to help the emerging center become self-sufficient and offer improved patient care. In 2020, 13 new pairs (listed below) were approved by the ISN Sister...
