As of March 2022, in addition to already offering the first year of membership free to nephrology trainees, ISN Membership will now only cost $15 per year for the following four years, while the member pursues their training. Join/Renew now and reap the many benefits of ISN Membership early in your nephrology career!
As 2021 quickly draws to a close, so does the ISN Membership calendar cycle. In addition to the new ISN Membership fee structure launched in September 2021, as of January 2022, ISN Members will also renew on a fixed calendar-year cycle (January-December), allowing the ISN to better cater to its members and be a good...
Syrian nephrologist Jude Yagan shares her experience as an ISN Fellow in Boston and her participation in WCN 2013. Applications for this program will be accepted until June 15, 2013. ISN Fellowships have earned the reputation of giving young nephrologists the tools to kick-start their career. They have given them the chance to learn and...
The Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology (APSN) is set to partner with ISN in each of its Grant Programs: Fellowship, Sister Renal Centre, Research & Prevention, Education Ambassador and Continuous Medical Education (CME) courses and workshops. From 2013, APSN will provide 50% of the funding for up to two Fellowships, two Educational Ambassadors, two Research...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Following a successful Nexus Symposium in Copenhagen Denmark last year, the ISN is excited to announce the theme of the 2014 symposium in Bergamo, Italy. A New Era of Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials in Kidney Disease will be the focus of this meeting, sparking fruitful discussion and debate. This event will take place...
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...
World Kidney Day (WKD) started with an extraordinary bang this year, as the new website was launched – giving everybody even more of a reason to share what they were doing on the day. The site is filled with new features including an event map, access to bright new materials and social media discussions. The theme of...
Last year, the 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...
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,...
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.
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...
Just a few days left before the deadline for the ISN Educational Ambassadors Program expires. If you are interested in welcoming an Ambassador to your center, you have until May 1st to submit your application. Thanks to the ISN GO Educational Ambassadors Program, centers in the developing world can request an expert to join them...
Lots of stories were published this week about a "laboratory-grown kidney" being transplanted into animals. The experiment published in Nature Medicine by Jeremy Strong and his co-workers from the Massachusetts General Hospital represents an exciting advance on the road to creating organs for those suffering from kidney disease. But how close are we, after this...
From April 12 to 14, 2013, I was in Doha, Qatar, taking part in a meeting of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG) to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Declaration of Istanbul (DOI), and the Doha Donation Accord. I co-chaired this meeting with Jeremy Chapman, representing the ISN and The Transplant Society respectively. I was happy to see a...
The ISN is happy to announce the outcome of the last call for applications for the ISN Fellowship Program. To get the full list of ISN Fellows who will be joining the program, CLICK HERE. Today, 26 candidates have been successfully accepted into the program and will receive ISN funding for their fellowship. For the first...
The Nigerian Association of Nephrology joined forces with the ISN to organize a Continuing Medical Education course (CME) in Abuja, Nigeria from January 30 to February 6, 2013. The meeting coincided with the society's 25th anniversary this year. Celebrations began with a press conference on January 30, 2013 followed by walk for life and an awareness...
