On September 28, the NCD Alliance launched "Facing Forward," a series of films and articles produced by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions. The series is designed to raise awareness of noncommunicable diseases by hearing directly from patients around the world. We are pleased to share that ISN President Agnes Fogo features in the film on CKD...
ISN President Agnes Fogo will present two talks during the pre-congress sessions on October 20, 2021: 8 a.m. Tehran time: Updates in Definition and Classification of Lupus Nephritis 2:35 p.m. Tehran time: Nephropathologic Aspects of Diabetes Mellitus The 18th International Congress of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation is hosted by the Iranian Society of Nephrology and will take...
The 16th BANTAO Congress (Balkan Association of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Artificial Organs) will be in hybrid format from October 29-31, 2021, in Tirana, Albania. The event provides a fitting platform to present László Rosivall with the ISN 2021 Pioneer Award for the Eastern and Central Europe region on October 30, 2021, at 11:10 a.m. CEST....
ISN President Agnes Fogo will provide the keynote address ‘My Path to President: From Research to Leadership’ on September 24, 2021, from 10:10 – 10:50 a.m. CST at the 2021 WIN Leadership Conference: Developing Future Leaders in Nephrology. The conference is hosted by Women in Nephrology
ISN President Agnes Fogo will present a talk on acute glomerulonephritis on September 24, 2021, from 2.05-2.35 p.m. Brazilian time (convert to your time zone here) at the 14th Congresso Mineiro de Nefrologia/5th Simpósio Mineiro de Transplante Renal. Hosted by the Sociedade Mineira de Nefrologia, the event will be held virtually from September 23-25, 2021. Consult...
The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Nephrology (SIN) will be held in hybrid format from October 6-9, 2021, in Rimini, Italy. Listen to Agnes Fogo, ISN president, on the topic "ISN in Action" on October 9. She will focus on activities within the Sister Renal Centers and Mentorship granting programs. This presentation is...
The 41st Annual Meeting of the Korean Society of Nephrology (KSN) took place virtually from September 2-5, 2021. The ISN and the KSN held a joint session at the event: ‘Towards Global Network for Kidney Health Care’ and included the following talks: Past-President Vivek Jha: Introduction of the ISN-GKHA project Jongha Park: Korean Renal Data System (KoRDS)...
The 2021 WIN Leadership Conference: Developing Future Leaders in Nephrology, hosted by Women in Nephrology, will be held virtually on September 24, 2021. ISN President Agnes Fogo will provide the keynote address ‘My Path to President: From Research to Leadership’ from 10:10-10:50 a.m. CST.
The 16th International Symposium on IgA Nephropathy will take place virtually from September 21-23, 2021. ISN President, Agnes Fogo, will chair Plenary Session 10, ‘IgAN: A Global Perspective’ on September 23, 2021, from 11:10-11:55 a.m. CEST. The symposium will focus on pathogenesis, pathology, and treatment of IgA nephropathy. The program highlights the current discussion on pathogenetic...
The Philippine Society of Nephrology (PSN), one of ISN's Collective-Member Societies, will be holding the webinar "Organ Trafficking in the 2020s - a Persisting Challenge for Transplant Professionals" at 6 p.m. Philippine Time on July 28, 2021 (convert to your time zone here). Register for the webinar here. ISN President, Agnes Fogo, will present the opening...
Professor Nan Chen, winner of the ISN Pioneer Award for North and East Asia The 2021 Annual Conference of Blood Purification, hosted by the Chinese Society of Nephrology (CSN), will take place from July 22-24, 2021, in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. The conference will include presentation of the ISN 2021 Pioneer Award for North and East...
The 36th Congress of the Malaysian Society of Nephrology (MSN),‘Strengthening the Basics, Embracing Advances in Nephrology,’ will take place virtually from July 23-24, 2021. The congress will be held in conjunction with the virtual 17th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST 2021) from July 25-28, 2021. ISN leaders will have a joint session...
The 36th Congress of the Malaysian Society of Nephrology (MSN), ‘Strengthening the Basics, Embracing Advances in Nephrology,’ will take place virtually from July 23-24, 2021. The MSN is an ISN Collective-Member Society and will co-host WCN'22 alongside the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology. The congress will be held in conjunction with the virtual 17th Congress of...
The XIX SLANH Congress 2021 will take place virtually from June 23-26, 2021, and includes pre-congress courses, Industry Symposia, abstract presentations, live plenary conferences, and live and on-demand thematic talks. The ISN and SLANH (Latin America Society of Nephrology and Hypertension) will jointly present the session, ‘Perspectives of nephrology: the pandemic and beyond’ on June...
On May 13, the ISN President, Agnes Fogo, spoke at the Third Annual Global Summit on Kidney Innovation: Expanding Patient Choices and Outcomes, organized by the American Association of Kidney Patients and the George Washington University, hosted virtually from May 13-14, 2021. Watch Professor Fogo’s presentation here. As a leader in the global kidney space,...
The ISN is pleased to participate in the upcoming virtual ERA-EDTA Congress from June 5-8, 2021. The ISN President, Agnes Fogo, will present a talk at 4 p.m. in the session “Improved Clarity of Definitions and Classification of Glomerular Lesions in Lupus Nephritis,” from 3-4.30 p.m. CEST on Monday, June 7. Do join us at the...
The #NephTrials initiative is an exciting series of conversations combining expertise from the ISN-ACT Global Trials Focus, the ISN-ACT Toolkit, and the #NephJC community. Join the latest #NephTrials discussion on May 25 at 9 p.m. ET. The conversation will focus on DIAL-MAG, which evaluates the effect of increased magnesium concentration in dialysate on the risk of...
Join us for a joint webinar between the ISN and the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology to understand connections between HF and CKD and discuss optimal management for patients. Stefan D. Anker (Germany), Debasish Banerjee (UK), Angela Yee-Moon Wang (China), and Wilfried Mullens (UK) will address: Pathophysiology of co-morbid heart failure and CKD: what...
Earlier this year, the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and the European Kidney Patients’ Federation (EKPF) had a meeting with the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Ms. Stella Kyriakides. They presented EKHA’s call-to-action (CTA) to improve prevention, treatment, and care of CKD in the aftermath of COVID-19 and discuss EU priorities for...
The book “Nephrology Worldwide” has been published in electronic and print format by Springer Nature. The ISN contributed the chapter, “Nephrology Worldwide: A Perspective from the International Society of Nephrology,” co-authored by Titi Chen, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, David Harris, and Vivekanand Jha. This chapter is offered in the WCN’21 Delegate Bag. The book features content from...
