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Landmark Papers in Nephrology out in March

This March Oxford University Press will publish Landmark Papers in Nephrology. To find out more, CLICK HERE. This publication is co-edited by ISN Past President Stewart Cameron and ISN President John Feehally.  Contributors include other past, present and future ISN leaders such as Adeera Levin, Nathan Levin, Eberhard Ritz and Fred Finkelstein. Landmarks in Nephrology points the reader to...

New ISN Treasurer announced

ISN is happy to announce the appointment of its new Treasurer. Tom Coffman has now accepted the role and will take over from current ISN Treasurer Vic Schuster. Many of you will already know Tom, who is Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. It is a...

ISN and TTS join forces to launch Sister Transplant Center Program

ISN and the ISN Global Outreach Programs are happy to announce the launch of the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program. Applications are now open for this new joint partnership between ISN and The Transplantation Society (TTS). CLICK HERE for more details. Following the success of the ISN Sister Renal Center Program, this initiative encourages transplant centers to...

Epidemiology, molecular, and genetic methodologies to evaluate causes of CKDu around the world: report of the Working Group from the ISN International Consortium of Collaborators on CKDu

In order to investigate candidate hypotheses for chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu), the ISN has supported a multidisciplinary group of nephrologists, epidemiologists, and occupational health and environmental scientists to form a consortium (i3C) to identify a coherent approach to studying CKDu and to provide recommendations for studies focusing on investigating causes. The...