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ISN President-Elect Adeera Levin to receive Aubrey J. Tingle Prize

ISN is delighted to announce that ISN President Elect Adeera Levin has been selected by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) as the recipient of this year’s Aubrey J. Tingle Prize. The prize will be presented in partnership with LifeSciences BC at their annual awards banquet on Thursday April 16, 2015. "It is...

Join the ISN General Assembly

The ISN General Assembly will meet on Monday March 16, 2015 to hear and discuss the reports from ISN President Giuseppe Remuzzi and Secretary General Ricardo Correa Rotter. Remuzzi will present the results of the elections, then Stuart Shankland and Luca Segantini will give the Treasurer’s report. Programs and activities will be also discussed, among them...

Kidney disease in Uganda

The developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa are under threat by an emerging epidemic of kidney disease. Populations are no longer solely affected by ‘diseases of poverty’ such as HIV/TB/malaria but also ‘diseases of affluence’ such as diabetes and hypertension. Disease is often asymptomatic until end-stage disease develops requiring expensive treatment options such as transplant or...

Join the PAHO-organized WKD webinar on March 12, 2015

The Department of Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health of The Pan American Health Organization (part of WHO), in collaboration with the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension, and as part of the activities to mark World Kidney Day, is organising a webinar on Kidney Health for All. The webinar will take place on Thursday,...

ISN Educational Ambassador in China

Last August, ISN Educational Ambassador Ming-Hub Zhao from Peking University First Hospital gave talks on epidemiology, acute kidney injury and renal pathology.  He spent a week at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University to update local doctors. The objectives included giving advice on establishing cohorts of patients with glomerulonephritis (GN) for further study,...

ISN-ANIO CNC – worldwide access to the latest renal pathology training

Kidney pathology educational programs available to the worldwide nephrology community are rather limited. In 2014, ISN and the American Nephrologists of Indian Origin (ANIO) set up a year-long web-based Clinical Nephropathology Certificate Program (CNC) to help physicians worldwide who seek training in the principles and practice of nephropathology. Priority was given to in-training applicants from...

Positive to positive

South African surgeon Elmi Muller carried out the first "HIV positive to positive" kidney transplants, giving hope to the country's growing number of HIV kidney patients. As more HIV positive patients are living longer thanks to breakthroughs in treatment, many show signs of other diseases including HIV nephropathy. Up until recently, these patients were not eligible...

ISN Educational Ambassador in Latin America

Breaking language barriers in El Salvador to teach the importance of vascular care for kidney patients. Last September, Educational Ambassador Octavio Salgado from University of Zulia Faculty of Medicine, Venezuela visited the Servicio de Nefrologia, Hospital Nacional Rosales in El Salvador. Aside from giving valuable training, he implemented a new vascular access policy tailored to...

Join the WKD Sunset Walk on March 12, 2015

This year, we will be celebrating World Kidney Day (WKD) during the ISN World Congress of Nephrology. Come and support WKD by joining the WKD Sunset Walk on March 12, 2015. All the details about registering can be found on the WCN 2015 website, CLICK HERE. The walk will start at the Sea Point Promenade (Open Air...

Less than one month to WCN 2015

There is less than one month to go before we kick off ISN‘s World Congress of Nephrology 2015 (taking place on March 13-17, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa). WCN 2015 provides a unique opportunity to share views on a wide variety of topics in nephrology that are related to patients suffering from kidney disease...

Elsevier Selected to Publish International Society of Nephrology’s Flagship Journals

ISN’s Kidney International and Kidney International Supplements to be published by Elsevier as of January 2016. New York, NY, February 17, 2015 - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), the global medical society devoted to advancing kidney care worldwide, announced today that Elsevier will publish ISN’s...

Request for applications March 1st: mini sabbaticals in nephropathology

The call for applications is now open for mini sabbaticals in nephropathology. Deadline is March 1st, 2015. The ISN Renal Pathology Committee is seeking applications for one mini sabbatical for a nephropathologist from a developing country (as defined by the ISN) to provide partial support for short term in-depth study of renal pathology, by immersion...

ISN global snapshot results coming soon

One of the first major activities launched by ISN under the 0by25 initiative aims to demonstrate the burden of AKI in selected centers around the world. The “global snapshot” is the first in a series of landmark projects to be launched under 0by25. This far-reaching, cross-sectional, global cohort study was designed to assess the growing...

WCN 2015 Regular Registration Rate Deadline February 9, 2015

There are less than two weeks left to register for ISN's biennial World Congress of Nephrology at the regular registration rate. deadline is February 9, 2015. If you are planning to attend and haven't already registered to this leading World Congress of Nephrology, which takes in Cape Town, South Africa from March 13 to 17, 2015, please...

Danone Nutricia Research supports ISN 0by25 initiative

ISN is delighted to announce a landmark agreement with Danone Nutricia Research in support of 0by25 – an ISN human rights initiative which aims to eliminate preventable deaths from Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) worldwide by 2025. This new funding is part of a global partnership between the two organizations aimed at advancing nephrology around the...