The WCN'26 program on Saturday, March 28, 2026, offers interactive courses designed to sharpen skills, deepen knowledge, and enhance patient care. Explore WCN’26 courses Register for WCN'26 at early bird rates Submit your abstract Cancer and Kidney Disease: The Growing Intersection of Their Genesis and Treatment Gain an up-to-date overview of onco-nephrology through expert-led, case-based sessions. This clinically focused...
The ISN invites renal pathologists, nephrologists and trainees from lower-, lower-middle-, and upper-middle-income countries to apply for an ISN Renal Pathology Bursary available for several key educational events in 2026. These bursaries aim to enhance diagnostic expertise, facilitating the early detection of kidney diseases and ultimately improving patient outcomes. Please read the guidelines carefully and submit...
Swarnalata Gowrishankar (fourth from left) alongside staff from the Kigali University Teaching Hospital in Rwanda In March 2025, ISN Educational Ambassador (EA) Swarnalata Gowrishankar, a renal pathologist at the Apollo Hospitals in India, spent two weeks helping to set up a kidney pathology laboratory in the pathology department of the Kigali University Teaching Hospital in...
Ehab Hafiz from the Theodor Bilharz Research Institute in Giza, Egypt, received support from the ISN to attend the pre-congress Renal Pathology Course in India at WCN'25. Ehab Hafiz (Fifth from right) with renal pathology course faculty Dr. Hafiz especially appreciated the content on podocyte-related gene variants, pregnancy and renal diseases, and digital and AI-assisted pathology....
Dr. Fogazzi (center-left) with training participants at the Almenara Hospital in Lima, Peru In January, ISN Educational Ambassador (EA) Giovanni Battista Fogazzi (Italy*) visited the Almenara Hospital in Lima, Peru, to present on urinary sediment analysis to help address a critical gap in nephrology training at the center and enhance local kidney care services. Course particiapants...
ISN Fellow Ahmad Naseer Kaihan, from Afghanistan, completed an intensive 12-month training program from May 2023 to May 2024 under the guidance of Professor Shoichi Maruyama at Nagoya University in Japan. Dr. Kaihan comments: “Professor Maruyama and Professor Yasuda’s mentorship and support have been invaluable to my growth and development. Their guidance has given me...
The ISN supported three ISN members (nephrologists and pathologists) to attend significant renal pathology events in person this year. Ntakirutimana Gervais (Rwanda), head pathologist at the was supported to attend the European Renal Pathology Course in the Netherlands, where he learned an integrated approach to assessing kidney biopsies. "The course was so impressive. I had the...
Staff from the SPMC visit the SGH Transplant Center The ISN and the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology (APSN) collaborated to support a Sister Renal Centers (SRC) partnership between the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) in Davao City, Philippines, and the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) in Singapore over seven years. From modest beginnings to a flourishing...
Onsite delegates at the 5th International Renal Pathology Conference in Zagreb, Croatia, as photographed by online participant Meilania Saraswati The ISN supported 13 ISN members (nephrologists and pathologists) to attend significant renal pathology events this year, both onsite and online. Five recipients (from Colombia, Congo, Turkey, Pakistan and Guatemala) received online registration to the WCN'23 "Renal...
The 2023 Vanderbilt Renal Translational Pathology Workshop will be held February 23-24, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The event is organized by the Vanderbilt O’Brien Kidney Center. The two-day comparative renal pathology workshop with didactic and hands-on training in qualitative and quantitative renal pathology was developed by ISN President Agnes Fogo and Haichun Yang from...
