Mariell Rivedal
Norway
2024 KI-ISN Early Career Researcher: Basic Science
KI-ISN Early Career Researcher Awards recognize outstanding research in basic and clinical science published in Kidney International®(KI) in the year leading up to WCN.
Mariell Rivedal is a Norwegian medical student in her final year at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway. Her interest in medical research has driven her academic journey, and since 2021, she has been a part of the Medical Student Research Program. During this time, she joined the Renal Research Group under the supervision of Thomas Knoop, Øystein Eikrem, and Jessica Furriol.
In pursuit of her research ambitions, Mariell took a year-long leave from her medical studies to devote herself entirely to research. Following the full-time year of research, she has continued to do research in parallel with medical school. Her work has focused on advancing the understanding of kidney diseases, primarily IgA nephropathy. She expects to defend her PhD on this disease in the end of 2025, after completing medical school.
Paper: Glomerular transcriptomics predicts long term outcome and identifies therapeutic strategies for patients with assumed benign IgA nephropathy, published in April 2024
The KI-ISN Early Career Researcher Award winners will be recognized at the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) in The ISN-KI/KIR Editorial Fellows Session: The Best of 2024/25 Articles, on Saturday, February 8, 2025, from 9:45-11:15 a.m.