Watch the latest ISN video abstract from the @ISNeducation Social Media Team. Watch the video here. This video is based on a paper from Kidney International Reports: Antibody Guided Therapy In PLA2R-associated Membranous Nephropathy
The ISN is currently inviting applications for ISN Interventional Nephrology Scholarships. The deadline to apply is June 1, 2023. Start your application here. These short courses offer training in interventional nephrology procedures to ISN members from low- and middle-income countries. Successful applicants will train in CVC placement, PD catheter insertion, kidney biopsy, and endovascular procedures at ISN...
The one-minute quiz is now available in 15 languages – Amharic, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bangla, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Uzbek. Take the quiz here. If you would like to help ISN increase the quiz's reach by translating it into your language, please get in touch with Monica at mmoorthy@theisn.org.
Lise Bankir, ISN emeritus member and "Directeur de Recherche Emérite" at INSERM (the French Institute of Health and Medical Research), has kindly donated the films: "The Human Kidney: Tubules, Blood Vessels and Vascular-Tubular Relations" and "The Vascular and Tubular Organization of the (Dog) Kidney" Watch the films here. These historical, yet clinically still relevant, films were independently produced in...
The paper "Kidney Function in Factory Workers Exposed to Heat Stress - a 2-year Follow-up Study" by Fabiana Nerbass has been published in the Journal of Occupational of Environmental Medicine. Read the article here. The research highlights the value of collaboration among investigators, organizations and communities. Fabiana Nerbass, from Fundação Pró-Rim in Joinville, Brazil, received the...
Over the last 18 months, a group of ISN members has developed a series of case studies to illustrate how different countries implement early chronic kidney disease (CKD) detection programs. The researchers identified a list of prerequisites for successful early detection of CKD. Read the paper here. Countries included in the research are Taiwan, Uruguay, Canada, the...
The ISN Frontiers Meeting on bi-directional relationships between infections and kidney diseases will take place in New Delhi, India, from September 22-25, 2022. Only two days left to register for the meeting at the regular price here. The deadline is midnight CEST, August 24. We asked Frontiers Meeting New-Delhi Chair Saraladevi Naicker to tell us about...
Delegates at the South Africa Renal Association Congress The ISN recently supported Wesam Ismail, chair of the ISN Renal Pathology Working Group and African Regional Board Member, to present a talk on basic histology and laboratory practice at the South Africa Renal Congress 2022, Durban, South Africa. Presenting virtually, ISN Past President Vivek Jha gave the...
Find out more and register here. Organized in collaboration with the Indian Society of Nephrology, the webinar is the second such broadcast in the lead-up to the specialized scientific program planned for the ISN Frontiers Meeting “Infections and the Kidneys, New Delhi, September 22 to 25. Infection frequently occurs in nephrology and kidney transplant practice. New point-of-care...
The Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Transplantation Centre and the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research (IREC) at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium recently developed an innovative method for preserving kidney grafts using oxygen. On March 20, 2022, two kidneys, donated after circulatory death, were successfully transplanted by Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc after they had...
